Tyrone Turner / WAMU I maintain all the points I've made about the complexity of how to respond to police unions in the wake of trying to tame the racist violence endemic in American policing. But it doesn't help when the police unions are openly...
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While I suppose we could say that the labor movement has been at a crossroads for a long time, right now, it very much is at a crossroads. That's because.
Stephen Greenhouse has an excellent (and very fair) write-up of the behind the scenes battle to replace Richard Trumka as the head of the AFL-CIO. Trumka is not going to.
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 be wrong. Between the building trades cozying up to Trump and especially the Laborers, whose...
On September 19, 1981, the AFL-CIO held Solidarity Day in Washington, D.C. This event was organized labor's strongest reaction to the Reagan administration and although largely forgotten about today, deserves.
This is the grave of Lane Kirkland. Born in 1922 in Camden, South Carolina, Kirkland entered the Merchant Marine Academy in 1942 and served as a deck officer on merchant.
On October 23, 1995, John Sweeney won the election to become president of the AFL-CIO. This ground shifting event began the process of moving the federation away from its staid Cold War policies and unwillingness to organize workers and attempted to make it once again...
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.
With the overall attack on unions in the United States, the ability of the AFL-CIO to engage in international solidarity actions gets harder and harder, as does its ability to.
The AFL-CIO has started its own online magazine based at Medium. Titled In Our Hands, it hopes to feature a few stories of working Americans at a good-looking website. Is it the be all and end of all union educational efforts? No. But it is...
I have a piece up at Labor Online about the difficulties of meaningful coalition building between the AFL-CIO and other progressive organizations. An excerpt: But of course the American union.
Mike Elk reports that the United Food and Commercial Workers are returning to the AFL-CIO after 8 years with the insurgent Change to Win coalition. While this is inside baseball.