Matt and I have had our share of arguments over how to create a better life for working people, but I mostly endorse his statement about Guaranteed Basic Income. The minimum wage typically gets debated in terms of econometric studies about disemployment impacts. But the...
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In a Democratic administration, OSHA makes alliances with women's groups to improve health and safety for women who work in construction. In a Republican administration, OSHA is controlled by industry.
Yuengling owner Dick Yuengling, Jr. is an anti-union extremist who thinks Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is "a great man," hates unions, and is leading the Keystone State fight to make.
Very interesting. I do agree with the belief that Texas is uncharted country for progressives and Democrats more broadly. For the labor movement, this makes tremendous sense. For one, despite the extremist right-wing politics of Texas, Latinos are so dominant in the border and are...
On August 25, 1921, the largest labor insurgency in American history and the largest civil uprising since the Civil War began in Logan County, West Virginia when 10,000 miners and.
"Can't Take No More," a 1980 film about workplace health and safety narrated by Studs Terkel is just incredible and very much worth watching, both for its footage of early.
On August 22, 1945, five airline stewardesses, as they were then called, formed the Air Line Stewardesses Association, wanting a labor union to give them a voice on a demanding, difficult job where they faced constant pressure about their bodies, poor working conditions, low pay,...
Mark Bittman is making sense: Oddly, affordability is not the problem; in fact, the tomatoes are too cheap. If they cost more, farmers like Rominger would be more inclined to.
One doesn't exactly think of future Reaganite and California Angels owner Gene Autry as a crazy radical, but he did record "The Death of Old Mother Jones" in 1931.
Glad to see workers in China fighting back against their conditions of work at Foxconn. Of course, I'm sure that the computer industry will move the factory to Vietnam or Cambodia. After all, given the lack of profits made by Apple and Foxconn, there's no...
The Philadelphia school system has decided to use a classic union-busting tactic: destroy seniority provisions: There's something about seniority that really rubs a lot of people the wrong way. It.
Shipbuilding corporation Signal International has some very special labor practices, policies that more corporations would emulate if they could get away it: The lawsuits allege that Signal and its agents.