I was the guest on today's episode of the Slate podcast What's Next with Mary Harris on the legacy of Richard Trumka and the future of the AFL-CIO. It's a.
This is a good run down of where the AFL-CIO stands after Richard Trumka's death. The short version is that there are two legitimate candidates to run the federation. The.
Rich Yeselson has a really powerful essay on what it was like to be on the front lines of the labor movement when John Sweeney won his upset victory to.
John Sweeney, who ran an upstart campaign in 1995 to take over the AFL-CIO presidency and revive the labor movement, has died. Sweeney in the end was never the transformative.
Tyrone Turner / WAMU I maintain all the points I've made about the complexity of how to respond to police unions in the wake of trying to tame the racist.
While I suppose we could say that the labor movement has been at a crossroads for a long time, right now, it very much is at a crossroads. That's because.
The labor movement is deeply divided. You'd like to think that every labor union would be behind a larger progressive effort to create social and economic democracy. But you would.
On September 19, 1981, the AFL-CIO held Solidarity Day in Washington, D.C. This event was organized labor's strongest reaction to the Reagan administration and although largely forgotten about today, deserves.
