This Prospect story of how the owners of the Cleveland Plain Dealer hate the Newspaper Guild so much that they half killed the paper of one of the nation’s most important cities is just infuriat
The issue of police unionism is very, very tricky. I hate the cops as much as anyone, but this is a situation where the move from slogan to policy is tricky. Sure, we could throw the main police union
A few years ago, I was asked to speak to a class at Brown about Out of Sight. It was some kind of environmental sustainability course. The students were smart of course and they liked the book, but th
Of course: Google has hired an anti-union consulting firm to advise management as it deals with widespread worker unrest, including accusations that it has retaliated against organizers of a global wa
Tech has to be a frontier in 21st century unionization. The libertarian bro culture of Silicon Valley means that it isn’t going to be easy, as these companies have no problem proudly announcing
I know I am shocked that not only is Elon Musk a massive douche that is a hero to lots of young men who want to be him, but that he also treats his workers like any other capitalist. Tesla allegedly e
On March 7, 1905, New York subway workers walked off the job. The city hired notorious strikebreaker James Farley to bust the strike, which he did with amazing speed, making himself one of the nation&
In 1932, the Norris-LaGuardia Act outlawed the use of yellow-dog contracts by employers, or making the refusal to join a union as a condition of employment. This is so counter to the modern Republican