The scab officials did an utterly abysmal job in last weekend's NFL games. But nothing reached the extreme incompetence of last night's Denver-Atlanta game, and that doesn't even count the Broncos not showing up. Essentially, the first half of that game was unwatchable between the...
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Rahm Emanuel is outraged. He thought he made a deal with Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers' Union, to end the teachers strike. But see, Rahm doesn't understand very.
Nicholas Kristof is all about protecting workers--if they can fulfill his white man fantasies of swooping into Cambodian brothels to save women of color from the sex trade. If those.
1. Sarah Jaffe on the liberal pundits, including Nocera and Kristof at the Times, repeating right-wing talking points about unions. 2. Dave Zirin compares the CTU strike to the plutocrat NFL owners locking out the referees and the plutocrat NHL owners who are going to...
Corey Robin has a great post about why so many liberals hate public school teachers and don't support their labor actions. Corey grew up in a wealthy New York suburb.
Alex Pareene has had about enough of the pundits, ranging from conservative to "liberal," who are somewhere between outraged and annoyed by the Chicago teachers strike. I am going to.
Charles Lane pretends to care about the children in public schools which he would never send his kids.
So how did the scab refs do in Week 1 of the NFL? Pretty bloody awful. The Green Bay-San Francisco game was particularly egregious: Midway through the second quarter at.
Paul Ryan expresses solidarity with Rahm Emanuel in his efforts to hand the keys to the Chicago schools over to the education capitalists who funded his campaign, destroy the teachers'.
Shorter a lot of "progressives" today: "I usually support unions, but these Chicago teachers [insert Republican talking point about unions.]" People are complaining--these teachers are highly paid, how dare they strike! First of all, I love that even self-identified "progressives" buy into the tear other...
Tomorrow morning, the Chicago teachers are going on strike. This is a power struggle between the union-busting mayor and Democratic National Convention speaker Rahm Emanuel and the teachers who are.
On September 2, 1885, white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town's entire Chinese community. Whites killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre,.