For several decades, labor has flirted with transnational unionism as a way to combat globalization and the loss of jobs in the United States. American unions began showing interest in other nations during the Cold War, when George Meany made fighting communism at home and...
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Adam Kader has a nice article on the I.W.W. organizing of Starbucks. That might sound weird. The I.W.W? Didn't it disappear 80 years ago? Well, more or less. It's always.
I'm going to be on the Rick Smith Show tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern to talk about the issues brought up in today's post about radical labor. Feel the charisma.
Matt Yglesias disagrees with my call for increased radicalization among labor in kind of a weird way. He argues that the modern economy has treated working-class people well, using increased rates of consumption as a measurement, and notes: “Workers of the world unite, you have...
No, not the superb labor newspaper, just a few links with commentary. 1. Dave Johnson has an interesting post up (with many links) on the NLRB decision to speed up.
Good news here: The labor board is proposing to tighten up the process by ensuring that employers, employees and unions receive needed information sooner and by delaying litigation over many.
Miners experienced awful conditions in the coal regions of West Virginia in the early 20th century. Coal companies ruled the region like a fiefdom. Impoverished workers had few connections with the outside world and could be thrown out of their homes or off their land...
I found this Times piece on the United Food and Commercial Workers' attempt to build a sort of quasi-union at Wal-Mart fascinating. And I wholeheartedly approve. It's almost impossible to.
As some but by no means all progressives know, the Newspapers Guild and the National Writers Union have called a boycott against Huffington Post for refusing to pay its writers..
Matt highlights this genuinely bizarre passage in a Times article about the labor dispute at GM:Beyond the bookkeeping effect of VEBAs, the health care funds could create a kind of incentive for Detroit companies and the union to modify their behavior.Paying the high borrowing costs...