Few know more about the internal politics of the American labor movement than Harold Meyerson and he is skeptical that it matters much that SEIU has returned to the AFL-CIO, a position I happen to mostly agree with. But what was the Change to Win...
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Back in 2005, SEIU led a group of unions out of the AFL-CIO to form an alternative federation. Change to Win was supposed to revitalize organizing. It turned out to.
Take any official statement from the labor movement for what you will, but at the very least, the AFL-CIO certainly believes that there are two parties of billionaires in this.
On February 17, 2000, the AFL-CIO officially changed its stance on immigration. No longer would the labor movement in this nation officially oppose immigration. Instead, it moved to become one of the immigrant rights movement's major allies in this nation. The history of American organized...
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.
Richard Trumka, long-time president of the AFL-CIO, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. There is much to admire about Trumka's career. He will be remembered in part for his failure to turn around the downward trajectory of the American labor...
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.
Richard Yeselson has an excellent rundown on the good, the bad, and the ugly of the labor movement in the aftermath of what was a successful presidential election, if significantly less so downballot. Following the election, Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO, said that...
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.