Back in the spring of 2001, the grad students at the University of Washington went on strike to gain recognition of union affiliation. Watkins, Lemieux and I walked the line at 45th and 17th NE, right across from frat row. The frat boys decided to “support” our efforts by blasting Keep On Working on repeat […]
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Tomorrow, I’ll be mailing my vote to approve our faculty’s new collective bargaining agreement, which was negotiated over the course of about 14 months in 2007 and early 2008. In the words
Via Will Bunch, apparently Circuit City was begging some of its laid off employees to come back. Awwwww. As he concludes about the companay’s strategy of firing its competent workers, “[s]
Brad Plumer has the goods on what the Republican-majority NLRB has been up to and what’s coming out with its term set to expire. Meanwhile, Kung-Fu Monkey takes on some of the more specious arguments aimed against the striking writers. Share