Category: Labor

Unions hope a Biden presidency will reverse decades of anti-worker policies.
We need an equally radical rededication to the concept of jobs with rights, and the rewards, monetary and moral, that are their just compensation

Inside the groundbreaking student organizing drive at Kenyon College
The 2020 platform of the Democratic Party is the most pro-labor it has ever been. But the onus is on us [to make sure that] once we get him elected, we don’t get bought off by coffee at the White House

The platform emphasizes union jobs, affordable housing, Medicare for All, public education and transportation, as well as increasing taxes on the rich
New research finds that strong unions are pretty effective at making politicians pay attention to the interests of ordinary people. In order to pursue a real pro-worker agenda in government, we need an emboldened labor movement
It is a flashback that the only way to oppose concessions is to oppose concessions—and all who embrace them, push them, or surrender to them

Why the Labor Movement Should Support the ‘Beyond Recovery’ Campaign

If Trump wins, he will be convinced that he has a mandate for authoritarianism and further irrationalism; trade unions must become organizations of the class
A look at Shaun Richman’s newly published Tell the Bosses We’re Coming