On September 22, 1946, the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural & Allied Workers of America (FTA) reached a contract agreement with the Piedmont Tobacco Company, marking an early victory in the CIO's Operation Dixie campaign. In the aftermath of the World War II, the Congress of Industrial...
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In a comment to Scott's post yesterday, Matt Yglesias said this about evaluation of the Chicago teachers. My point about unions favoring job security for their members per se is.
The scab officials did an utterly abysmal job in last weekend's NFL games. But nothing reached the extreme incompetence of last night's Denver-Atlanta game, and that doesn't even count the.
Rahm Emanuel is outraged. He thought he made a deal with Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers' Union, to end the teachers strike. But see, Rahm doesn't understand very much about unions. In a democratic union, the kind of union supposedly liberal commentators say...
Nicholas Kristof is all about protecting workers--if they can fulfill his white man fantasies of swooping into Cambodian brothels to save women of color from the sex trade. If those.
1. Sarah Jaffe on the liberal pundits, including Nocera and Kristof at the Times, repeating right-wing talking points about unions. 2. Dave Zirin compares the CTU strike to the plutocrat.
Corey Robin has a great post about why so many liberals hate public school teachers and don't support their labor actions. Corey grew up in a wealthy New York suburb where he had great teachers. Nonetheless, In my childhood world, grown ups basically saw teachers...
Alex Pareene has had about enough of the pundits, ranging from conservative to "liberal," who are somewhere between outraged and annoyed by the Chicago teachers strike. I am going to.
Charles Lane pretends to care about the children in public schools which he would never send his kids.
So how did the scab refs do in Week 1 of the NFL? Pretty bloody awful. The Green Bay-San Francisco game was particularly egregious: Midway through the second quarter at Lambeau Field, there was an offensive pass interference call on Green Bay's James Jones that...
Paul Ryan expresses solidarity with Rahm Emanuel in his efforts to hand the keys to the Chicago schools over to the education capitalists who funded his campaign, destroy the teachers'.
Shorter a lot of "progressives" today: "I usually support unions, but these Chicago teachers [insert Republican talking point about unions.]" People are complaining--these teachers are highly paid, how dare they.