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 h
This supermarket cashier training film from the mid-60s, produced by Reader’s Digest for some reason, is an interesting vision into work. I certainly wouldn’t say that a checker’s jo
This Prospect story of how the owners of the Cleveland Plain Dealer hate the Newspaper Guild so much that they half killed the paper of one of the nation’s most important cities is just infuriat
Stephen Greenhouse has an excellent New Yorker piece on the troublesome question of police unions. Plenty of police violence happens without accountability whether the cops have unions or not. But uni
Need to congratulate the Brown graduate students for winning a union contract. This is actually a big deal. Private schools have been harshly anti-union. While Democratic presidents have opened up col
The issue of police unionism is very, very tricky. I hate the cops as much as anyone, but this is a situation where the move from slogan to policy is tricky. Sure, we could throw the main police union
Since we are talking about police violence these days, here’s a film produced by the Illinois Labor History Society, I assume in the 60s, about the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937, when our old fr
Reminder to all, since a reminder was requested, of the labor theatre event I am participating in tonight. Three short plays, then a 10 minute talk by me about the labor movement, and then a Q&A w