A change is a coming and the bottom line is the only thing that matters to management. So, I had my head down for a while, but I didn't keep it there for long. As long as we are a Guild we still have a voice, we still have strength and we should use it until we cannot use it anymore. I thought of this motto as I drove home today, used by one of my sports heroes: "Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make the linebacker pay. Make him earn your death." -- Walter Payton #34 Chicago Bears

In Egypt, workers are having a revolutionary February. In the United States, by contrast, February is shaping up as the cruelest month workers have known in decades. Even as workers were helping topple the regime in Cairo, Wisconsin's new Republican governor has proposed taking away most collective bargaining rights of public employees. His legislation has moved so swiftly through the newly Republican state legislature that it might come to a vote Thursday.

In December 1977, eight women went on strike against Citizens’ National Bank in Willmar, Minn. Their goals were straightforward. They wanted equal pay for equal work. They wanted equal treatment. They never got what they wanted. But more than 30 years later, their goals and their impact still resonate. People still hear examples of how -- by taking a stand in a small Minnesota town -- they changed working conditions for women they never knew in places they had never heard of.