A lot of coverage of Wisconsin, as one would expect. A few notes on this. First, David Gergen, anti-union hack. Ezra Klein's response was a bit frustrating. He discusses labor's failure entirely in terms of a post-Citizens United world. Now to be fair, it was...
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On June 6, 1943, nearly 30 leaders of the Packard Hate Strike in a United Auto Workers-organized plant in Detroit were suspended from their jobs. The culmination of a series.
Too close to call is a better sign than I expected. Though I imagine enough votes will come out of Waukesha County, 1948 LBJ victory-style, to push the election to.
I was OK with Joe Nocera's column coming to realize that, hey, maybe unions do have value in American society! After all, as a long-time member of the Beltway class, it is useful to see him come around on the idea rather than continue with...
Josh Eidelson's latest column on the Walker recall election gets at a very important issue: “Unions had their place,” a woman named Jerri told me soon after I arrived in.
1. I know we all took the words of charter school advocates very, very seriously. It was all about the students and not about busting the teacher unions at all..
On this date in 1937, Chicago police opened fire on strikers in front of the Republic Steel mill, killing 10 workers. Part of the "Little Steel" strike, where smaller steel corporations refused to follow U.S. Steel into signing contracts with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee...
Yet another reason why Obama needed to stand up to agribusiness and eliminate child labor on farms. Which of course he did not.
Well, it looks like Democrats are giving up on recalling Scott Walker. The DNC has still refused to help. Obama has stayed far away in a state that is a.
Josh Eidelson has a provocative piece at In These Times exploring the possibility of killing the National Labor Relations Act. Quoting several union leaders who note that the labor law enacted in 1935 now restricts labor terribly, Eidelson makes a plausible case. Partially because employers...
1. An underfunded and industry-dominated OSHA can't properly investigate workers' death. This fantastic Jim Morris investigation of how OSHA did nothing when a worker at U.S. Steel died on the.
On this date 92 years ago, the Matewan Massacre took place in the small town of Matewan, West Virginia. In January 1920, the United Mine Workers of America had a.