It's useful that the bipartisan patina Michelle Rhee gave Students First has worn off and her organization is increasingly being shown for what is is--an anti-union Republican front group with an agenda to destroy teachers' rights. Rhee purported to be the face of a bipartisan...
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Pretty bloody awful, at least according to Ned Resnikoff. The exception was the Chicago Teachers Union strike. As Ned states: If there’s a common theme to the labor movement’s recent.
I've been remiss in not talking about the Michigan right to work disaster. Part of it is that it's so bloody depressing, part is that I'm really focusing on my.
On December 11, 1886, the Colored Farmers' Alliance was established in Lovelady in Houston County, Texas. This organization may have accomplished little in concrete gains, but it represented the brave attempt of black farmers to avoid tenancy, sharecropping, and other forms of white controlled labor....
Thought it was worth darkening your day by pointing you to this handy online calendar of mine disasters in American history. See how many miners were killed on the birthdays.
On December 6, 1865, the legislature of Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ending slavery. Arguably, the single most important event in the history of American labor, the.
I really want to recommend Sarah Jaffe's long-form interview with Jane McAlevey about her new book that I referred to here. McAlevey makes some really important points about a number of issues concerning labor--the restrictiveness of Taft-Hartley, how the Democratic Party dictates the agenda to...
The Black Friday strike at Wal-Mart was interesting. I'm a bit skeptical that it means a lot, but who knows what will to what. People thought Occupy or the Battle.
Within American labor history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire is a touchstone moment. That tragedy led directly to a spate of workplace safety laws and building regulations. In the longer term,.
I'm going to assume anyone who actually shops today is someone I don't want to know. But in any case, you should be following the Black Friday Wal-Mart strikes, the largest organized labor action in the history of the company. Josh Eidelson's blog at The...
On November 22, 1887, a group of white vigilantes crushed a Knights of Labor led strike of black sugar workers in the fields around Thibodaux, Louisiana. Fighting back against largest.
Seth Ackerman has a really strong article at Jacobin on the Hostess shut-down. Much of it has great value for showing just how rare it is for companies to ask.