I’m the guest on today’s edition of NPR’s The Indicator, the podcast associated with Planet Money. I’m talking about the past and future of American labor unions. Check it out!
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On November 22, 1919, a white supremacist terrorist organization called the Self-Preservation and Loyalty League murdered four union leaders organizing both white and Black workers at a sawmill in Bog
Tonight’s film is this 1948 documentary made by the National Farm Labor Union about the terrible labor practices of DiGiorgio Farms in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the worst of all the farm em
I am off to give a talk at a labor law conference in Minnesota where I am revisiting some of my discussions of globalization and the need for a Corporate Accountability Act. It’s worth noting that there is a lot of conversations all of a sudden around monitoring and policing supply chains, even outside the […]
It’s been a good month for organized labor. Just a few of the victories. Yesterday, John Deere workers approved a new contract with significant wage gains after a month long strike. Workers at D
James P. Hoffa is stepping down as the head of the Teamsters. This truly ends a generation when the name “Hoffa” means “Teamsters,” for better or for worse. I was contacted by
On November 15, 1975, Wages for Housework opened its storefront on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. This date allows us to explore this fascinating intersection between the feminist movement and ideas of work, with many lessons for the present. While the idea of being paid for housework had a strongly international dimension, we will focus on […]
On November 13, 1887, British police busted up an unemployment march that also had strong Irish nationalist leanings, leading to a violent battle in streets between the protestors and the cops. Bloody
On November 11, 1942, the Congress of Industrial Organizations began its annual convention. One of the key parts of this convention was the creation of the Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination,
Friends, that salt of the earth populist Elaine Chao has a message for you. Former Secretary of Labor @ElaineChao just said on @BloombergTV that workers have “a patriotic duty” to take jobs companies can’t fill. What about an employer’s patriotic duty to provide jobs with decent wages and benefits? (Cricket sounds here.) pic.twitter.com/ndocwpawZX — Eve […]
Krugman has come around to a point that lots of us have been making for months. The so-called Great Resignation is actually workers saying they don’t want their bullshit jobs and so are finding
A decade ago, legacy publications got rid of their last full-time labor reporters and there was almost no labor coverage to be found except in small publications such as In These Times. Fast forward t