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OSHA

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On September 14, 2015
OSHA just faces a hard row to hoe in implementing silica standards or anything else. The reality is that OSHA has been battered between the political winds ever since its founding. Only during the Carter years was OSHA really empowered for making widespread change. The...
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Origins of Right to Work

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On September 10, 2015
At RI Future, I reviewed Cedric de Leon's new book The Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago. An excerpt. Scholars are beginning to rethink the Gilded Age through the framework of the New Gilded Age. Providence College sociologist Cedric de Leon...
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GE’s Taft-Hartley Comic, 1947

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On September 3, 2015
Thanks to Bruce Vail for sending me this hilarious propaganda comic General Electric put out in 1947 during the debate over the Taft-Hartley Act. He asked me to credit the Maryland labor activist Bill Barry in hunting this up and putting it into a PDF...

ATI Lockout

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On September 2, 2015

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.

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