It's wonderful to me to see organized labor stand up for related issues. I'm proud when unions promote women's rights, gay rights, or opposition to war. It wasn't always the case, but for the past few years the labor movement has been pretty good on these sorts of issues.

While the labor movement is covering women's rights, I'd like to see Broadsheet cover a labor issue:

The NLRB seems poised to redefine the term "manager" in an effort to disenfranchise workers. Per a hospital's tragically typical efforts to resist its workers' effort to form a union, it seems that the NLRB will rule that nurses (and other workers with any role in scheduling shifts) are not employees, entitled to very basic protections, but are rather managers, without the right to form a union.

This is just part of the Bush administration-appointed NLRP narrowing the definition of "worker". These people won't rest until everyone in America is either a manager, a student, or an independent contractor.

Not all nurses are women, but the majority are. This assault on nurses' rights is an assault on women's rights, and Broadsheet should cover it.

Considering the troubles labor unions have, why are they taking on abortion as an issue? Plus, doesn't anyone find it strange that your kid can't have an aspirin without your ok, but it's fine to have a medical procedure like abortion? We're talking about minors here. Shouldn't they run an irreversible decision like this past someone with a bit of wisdom in their years like their parents or a judge?

The moment a woman or girl gets pregnant all decisions are irreversible. The medical procedure of abortion is actually less dangerous than being pregnant, and, without parental support, less traumatic. More women's lives have been ruined by unwanted children than by having abortions.

That being said, of course a girl should talk to her parents about whether or not to have an abortion. If she can. Not all girls *have* parents they can talk to about such things. So mandating by law that girls talk to their parents is a terrible idea, because girls who *can* safely talk to their parents probably will. The ones that won't have some reason to think they would suffer more greatly for telling the parents than for not. (And it doesn't have to be the usual standby of "what if the girl was pregnant through incestuous rape" -- she could be refusing to tell her parents because they'll throw her out of the house for violating their moral beliefs. Or maybe one of the parents is sick and stress could seriously harm their health. Or they're extremely pro-life, but the girl really cannot handle the burden of a pregnancy and fears her parents would make her bear the child. There are all kinds of reasons.)

Force her not to get one? Lock her in the house so she never "screws up" again? Realize that she obviously doesn't have what it takes to ever amount to anything and treat her accordingly? Get her into therapy immeidately so that she is "cured" of ever wanting to have sex, at least until she is married and graduated from college with a good job? What? I think anyone who ends up needing an abortion has plently of reason to examine their own actions and the situation they are in even without their parents involvment. Of course parents want to know, but how many parents would have wanted to tell THEIR parents if they had been in that position.