With everyone focused on the writers' strike, it's worth noting another strike--teachers in Oakland. This is fascinating. The district is offering a good wage gain. But that's not really what.
The union movement is a tremendously diverse and complex thing. Anyone who says "unions" should do this and that doesn't know what they are talking about, because these different worker.
There's a leftist component to Murc's Law--that in American political discourse, only Democrats have agency, for those uninitiated to the maxim. We see that a lot on the labor left,.
Hamilton Nolan has an interesting interview with AFSCME president Lee Saunders. Nolan can't quite get over his Berniebroism in this interview, asking if unions supporting Hillary was a mistake and.
I would hope that the horrors of Trump would have moved workers against this anti-worker fascist president who attempts to name utterly horrible humans as Secretary of Labor. But with.
Predictably terrible! The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its annual report on union density. And who knows, maybe for the last time as the Trump administration continues its war.
Above: The federal response to a strike in 2018. Harold Meyerson's election post-mortem for organized labor is exactly as grim as it should be. As Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
