Greg Sargent has a good piece in the Post thinking through what it means for Michigan to overturn its right to work law. Specifically, what does this signal about the current Democratic Party? We had a good talk about this late last week and the...
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Michigan is on the verge of repealing its right to work law, returning the state to those that have a basic respect for workers' rights. I, among other historians, talked.
It's hard to convince workers that Democrats really care about them when they don't actually do anything for unions. Yeah, there's lots of lip service, but even when they have.
The so-called "right to work" lobby is one of the most perfidious set of ideas in the United States. Now that the Republican Party has declared total war on the labor movement (to be fair, one can say this started under Reagan, but really it's...
In 1956, workers at a plant in Princeton, Indiana went on strike. They were organized with the International Association of Machinists. In response, the National Right to Work Committee created.
Jake Rosenfeld has a good piece on the meanings of Missouri voters' overwhelming rejection of the state's right-to-work law. The decimation of organized labor in Missouri since the last time.
It's hard to overstate the vital importance of the upcoming Missouri referendum to overturn the state's newly enacted right to work law. One of many states where Republicans have passed this notorious union-busting strategy since the 2010 elections, overturning it, which happened in Ohio after...
Anthony Kennedy's retirement is largely irrelevant when it comes to issues of work. He was always a horrible right-wing hack on these questions. He peppered the oral arguments to Janus.
Lesa Curtis of Westchester, N.Y., right, who is pro agency fees and a former president of her union, rallies outside of the Supreme Court in Washington,.
There is really is no bottom for Republicans subverting democracy. Missouri passed a right-to-work law. There is a ballot measure for November so the public can overturn the law. What is the Republican response? Create a special election to lower turnout! A GOP-led effort to...
The destruction of public sector unionism that became inevitable when Republicans won the White House is about to happen. The Supreme Court is set to deal a sharp blow to.
One major problem with Democrats playing defense for the better part of the last fifty years is that entire epochs have gone by without Democrats making strong cases for the.