Employers hate unions. It's not about the money. It's about the power. The idea of workers making demands on rich people is so offensive to said rich people that they'd gladly spend far more than they would cutting a deal to crush a union. And...
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This is the grave of Fred Hartley. Born in 1902 in Harrison, New Jersey, this person, responsible for one of the worst laws in American history, didn't grow up super.
Catholics like to talk a good game about social justice but working for Catholic colleges is pretty terrible from an employment perspective. Just about everyone I've known who teaches at.
This story about the Chicago History Museum slashing workers hours and public services in order to unionbust suggests a lot about why our elites--whatever their political affiliation--are fundamentally pro-Trumpist and acquiesce on everything. Because they want power and control over the proles. For almost 170...
The Prospect has a good piece on something I did know about--an anti-union law firm coming to Rhode Island to encourage employers to ignore the state's laws preventing captive meetings.
The 5th Circuit has effectively ruled the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. This will be kicked up to the Supreme Court, which will overturn 91 years of labor precedent like.
This is the grave of Philip Landrum. Born in Martin, Georgia in 1907, Landrum grew up mostly in Macon and went to school there and then onto Mercer University, the Baptist university in that town. Landrum definitely also grew up with all the prejudices of...
Whole Foods has always been one of the most anti-union companies in the country, ever since its founding. It is now in the Bezos orbit. That hasn't helped. It is.
As I've said many times, any capitalist who refuses to allow unions into their plants doesn't care about saving the planet. It's just more rapacious profit. Simply put, if you.
Ralph Nader is furious that the AFL-CIO isn't doing Labor Day his way. Ralph Nader releases an angry letter to Liz Shuler saying she reneged on doing cool Labor Day activities because the AFL-CIO is too beholden to the Democratic Party and its "corporate-conflicted political/...
Not only is Chipotle almost comically overrated, but it is as bad on its workers unionizing as any other company and is happy to commit labor law violations to bust.
Although with extremely low turnout, the charlatan Chris Smalls was ousted as head of the Amazon Labor Union the other day, with a reform caucus based on ideas of democracy.