Last week, I wrote about the ATI lockout of their union mills. Wanted to highlight this issue once again. The United Steelworkers held a big rally in Pittsburgh yesterday to pressure the company to end the lockout and negotiate a fair contract with the union....
Month: September 2015
I was lucky enough to be sent a copy of The Enemy Within (in Britain it is going by Still the Enemy Within). This is a powerful documentary on how.
My good friend Jacob Remes has an interesting piece up at the Atlantic. You may remember him from his entry in the This Day in Labor History series on Davis.
Many fine suggestions here, but I think this is the best one: Americans everywhere have “Jedi Fever,” with the beloved space movie franchise finally returning to cinemas later this year. William McKinley, a political “star” who loved “wars,” seems like a natural fit for the...
Some uncharacteristic Big Thoughts in my latest at the Diplomat: After 1989, the.
Kim Davis, Kentucky county clerk firmly committed to the principle that marriage is between a woman and a man, and then another man, and then another man, and then another.
The Oakland Raiders have determined that the greatest athletic talent to emerge in American sports since Joba Chamberlain is not one of the 75 best players on their roster: Out on the field, in uniform this summer, he was just No. 33. He was just...
This is a test. This is only a test. Acme Law School is part of the main campus of a state university. State appropriations make up a very small part.
Who else is excited to have your workplace performance monitored by drones? I know I am shocked to see technological advancement embraced by employers to control workers!
The answer to this question depends on being able to determine the probable life expectancy of a birth cohort, rather than the cohort's life expectancy at birth. The difference between these two numbers is that life expectancy at birth (LEB) isn't a prediction: it's a...
Above: The 2013 West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion There's been a lot of media discussion over the past week about Chinese workplace safety conditions because of the Tianjin explosion that.
Hi folks! Please enjoy this guest post on the Hugos!: Hi, I'm Jameson Quinn, the guy who came up with the basic idea for the E Pluribus Hugo proposal to.