For the first time in 81 years, the more than 4,000 workers at a Bridgestone Firestone-owned rubber plantation in Liberia now are in control of their own union.

Sheldon Friedman, AFL-CIO Voice@Work research coordinator, sent us this report.

With the New Hampshire primary up tomorrow, Republican and Democratic presidential candidates gathered for another round of debates over the weekend.

Kevin Dahle

Barb Kucera, editor of