This is the grave of Peter Brennan. Born in New York in 1918, Brennan grew up without his father, who died in the 1919 flu epidemic. It was a working class family; his father was an ironworker. But Brennan would become a labor leader of...
building trades
Great piece in Workday about what stolen wages really mean in construction--injured workers not getting treatment. In 2022, construction worker José Alfredo Gómez fell two stories from the home he.
Being a woman in the building trades is not easy. This is the center of a very masculine work environment, with all that means. I've known women who tried to.
While we'd all like to think that unions exist to promote "the workers" or socialism or the revolution or whatever we want, the reality is that they exist to promote the interests of their own members. And while we'd also like to think that the...
When we talk about organized labor in this country, to the extent that we even do, we so often just stereotype the building trades as filled with conservatives. Maybe we.
The labor movement is deeply divided. You'd like to think that every labor union would be behind a larger progressive effort to create social and economic democracy. But you would.
The relationship between organized labor and immigration is complicated, to say the least. For many decades, far too long, the labor movement was outright opposed to immigration, partially on the ground of a higher population undermining wages and partly on the grounds of whiteness. In...
I and many others have excoriated the building trades for embracing Trump. Not only is it betraying the rest of the left and betraying the interests of many of their.
I was very unhappy when the building trades met with Trump and then gloated about the reopening of the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines. So I wrote about it in.
Emperor Tangerine invited the building trade union leaders in for a meeting yesterday and boy were they excited. At a meeting with the leaders of several construction and building trade unions, President Trump reiterated on Monday his interest in directing hundreds of billions of dollars...
On September 23, 1969, President Richard Nixon issued the Philadelphia Plan, forcing building trades unions to allow black members into their ranks. Nixon did this believing that it would show.
Sexual harassment of female workers in construction is so endemic that most who enter the field quit. It is a problem that nobody takes even close to seriously enough, including.