West Virginia
Yesterday was so-called Giving Tuesday. So I want to ask you all a favor. Over the last 6 plus years, I have provided you with a lot of free labor.
On October 11, 1979, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in.
West Virginia governor Jim Justice, once a Republican, then an opportunistic "Democrat," and now a Trumpist Republican, can go do anatomically impossible things to himself. Mr. Justice said he would.
Hamilton Nolan's tour of West Virginia's labor history and dying labor movement is well worth reading. If you believe that Bernie Sanders' vision of America can revive a leftist populist.
I agree with nearly every point of this Cathy Kunkel piece in Jacobin about the decline of the Democratic Party in West Virginia. Kunkel is a West Virginia energy activist.
We had a good discussion last night over what to do about Joe Manchin. It's worth noting in context of that conversation that the other statewide elected Democrat, Governor Jim.
So you might think that a West Virginia coal miner turned strident anti-coal activist would support the one candidate who might do something about climate change and who would follow.
Are right-to-work laws an unconstitutional taking of property? That's what unions and their lawyers are arguing in Wisconsin and West Virginia, both states that have recently passed such law. Eleven.