In my new book, Organizing America, one point I make is that everyone is flawed and we have to work with what we have. One chapter is on Daniel Berrigan, the antiwar priest. Berrigan was of course a hero in so many ways. Few did...
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As I think is probably pretty clear by now, I am not a fan of a lot of how the modern liberal-left operates. There is the performative nature of social.
For our latest podcast, we had the privilege of talking to Marc Doussard at the University of Illinois and Greg Schrock of Portland State University about their new book Justice.
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) I know nothing more about the campaign to organize Peet's Coffee workers in Davis, California than I read...
Coachella, CA: 1969. United Farm Workers Coachella March, Spring 1969. UFW leader, Dolores Huerta, organizing marchers on 2nd day of March Coachella. © 1976 George Ballis/Take Stock / The Image.
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) The South has.
Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento, Calif., on Sept. 16, 1975. Chavez's efforts in California culminated in landmark legislation that protected...
I have basically given up on believing that organized labor as it currently exists can rebuild the labor movement. I don't think it can and I don't think most of.
(AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson). Unions have polled pretty high among the electorate for awhile, but have surged recently. At the same time, there have been a number of high-profile union campaigns,.
Deep dives on the success or failure of individual labor unions does not a robust comment section make. But this New Labor Forum piece on the successes of SEIU 32BJ is quite worth your time. SEIU Local 32BJ offers a case study of how unions...
Starbucks employee Tim Swicord and Gailyn Berg pose for a portrait outside of a Starbucks in Springfield, Va on April 13, 2022. (Michael A. McCoy for NPR) As I've stated.
Richard Bensinger, left, who is advising unionization efforts, along with baristas Casey Moore, right, Brian Murray, second from left, and Jaz Brisack, second from right, discuss their efforts to unionize.