Working on my next book today, I stumbled across this New York Times article from 1979 on the fresh new look Lane Kirkland was going to bring to the AFL-CIO. That turned out well! Four weeks ago, Kirkland was back at...
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On May 10, 1837, New York City banks announced they were suspending specie payments. This began the Panic of 1837, the first of the nation's many major periodic economic collapses.
On May 8, 1959, Local 1199, the union of New York hospital workers, went on strike. This action, while not really successful, played a critical role in not only organizing.
On May 1, 1899, Florence Kelley began her work for the National Consumers' League. Not only was the Consumers League a critical organization in the fight against child labor, but Kelley established herself and middle-class women more broadly as key allies in the struggle for...
The building trades getting into bed with Trump sure is paying off! President Donald Trump, who assured labor leaders earlier this month that they will “always find an open door”.
That Tom Perez, he sure is a neoliberal sellout! The move is one of many small shifts that Perez has undertaken to steer the Democrats slightly more to the left..
I have a long piece in the Boston Review on the complicated relationship between organized labor and the Democratic Party. The basic thesis is that unions have no real choice other than working within the Democratic Party even when the Democratic Party does not pay...
Sure, I roll my eyes at companies saying they can't actually make their products in the United States because they can't get their supply chains here. Well, you can always.
This article on SEIU's budget cuts confirms what my own internal sources at the union have told me: it is cutting back big time because Friedrichs II is on the.
On April 9, 1923, the Supreme Court ruled in Adkins v. Children's Hospital that states or the federal government setting minimum wages for women was unconstitutional, as it violated the liberty of contract. This awful decision made clear just how powerful liberty of contract doctrine...
If you want to get published, a real good way is to write yet another version of "labor unions are doing it wrong. They should ORGANIZE and listen to REAL.
The Washington Post, October 24, 1980: The executive board of the militant organization that represents the nation's aerial traffic cops has endorsed Ronald Reagan for the presidency. Robert D. Poli,.