1. Sarah Jaffe on the liberal pundits, including Nocera and Kristof at the Times, repeating right-wing talking points about unions. 2. Dave Zirin compares the CTU strike to the plutocrat NFL owners locking out the referees and the plutocrat NHL owners who are going to...
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Ugh. Yggy struggles to understand why progressives support public sector unions: The most salient difference, completely absent from his armchair psychologizing, is surely that public school teachers work for the.
Shorter a lot of "progressives" today: "I usually support unions, but these Chicago teachers [insert Republican talking point about unions.]" People are complaining--these teachers are highly paid, how dare they.
Tomorrow morning, the Chicago teachers are going on strike. This is a power struggle between the union-busting mayor and Democratic National Convention speaker Rahm Emanuel and the teachers who are fighting for decent pay, small classroom sizes, and to retain the ability to strike. This...
On this day in 1894, the American Railway Union, headed by Eugene Debs, called a nationwide boycott in solidarity with their striking members at Pullman, Illinois. This action turned a.