unemployment benefits

Unemployment Benefits for Strikers

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 24, 2023

One of the top legislative goals for labor intellectuals and radicals (more so than I think for actual labor leaders) has been to get strikers eligible for unemployment benefits. This has been part of the labor intellectual world for a long, long time. Since unemployment...

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This Day in Labor History: January 28, 1932

By Erik Loomis

On January 28, 2022

On January 28, 1932, Wisconsin governor Philip LaFollette signed his state's pioneering unemployment compensation legislation, making that state the first in the nation to create such a law. This was.

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Rethinking Work

By Erik Loomis

On May 12, 2021

I don't entirely know what to make of the seemingly widespread choice by a lot of low-wage workers to not go back to their crappy jobs. There's been a ton.

Gun_Ohm_Unit What the fuck are you talking about?
Republicans and Russians · April 23, 2024
First when not last John Ganz told me in a reply to a comment not too long ago he believes the key constituency of not just Republicans, but out-and-out Fascism, in this country is the owners of closely held businesses...
The party of petit bourgeois tyrants · April 23, 2024
joefromlowell I said they can sign away rights, not lives. Freedom of association is based on the First Amendment right to assemble. It is about the government to exactly the same degree as the free speech clause.
Giving workers something more than attacks on critical race theory and banning lunch breaks · April 23, 2024
Kuroda 2.0 I don't actually agree there; and the qualities that do grind my gears could be attributed to ableism on my part too.
On Criminalizing Homelessness · April 23, 2024
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Republicans and Russians · April 23, 2024