Kari Lydersen

Strike? Adjunct Faculty Consider Work Stoppage in Chicago and New York

Kari Lydersen Mar 7, 2011

As the Chicago Reader wrote this week, adjunct faculty at Columbia College and Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in Chicago…

The Truth About Public Employees, the New Convenient Scapegoats

Kari Lydersen Jan 8, 2011

  It’s become a common refrain: public employees from teachers to parking meter attendants to firefighters to nurses are…

As Glow of Chilean Rescue Fades, Mining Deaths Continue

Kari Lydersen Nov 16, 2010

The day after one of the rescued Chilean miners was celebrated on national TV running the New York Marathon,…

Immokalee Workers Win, Again!

Kari Lydersen Oct 25, 2010

Good news is bursting forth like a healthy crop of winter tomatoes for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW).…