Glossary to Terrible Labor Coverage in Media
By Laura Clawson provides an extremely useful service in compiling a glossary of terrible labor coverage. An example:
Big labor—Ooh, scary, right? Not just labor, not just unions, not just millions of working people joined together, fighting together rather than one by one, having hired some lawyers and organizers to represent their interests, but big labor. It must be a fair fight between corporate money and Koch brothers money and U.S. Chamber of Commerce money and big labor money, right? No, of course it’s not. But those are the assumptions embedded in the term, which is exactly why it’s important to push back on it.