Labor
Jobless rate drops, but for the wrong reason
May 4, 2018Unfortunately, this dip was accompanied by a fall in labor force participation.
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Advice for high school graduates: Learn a trade
May 3, 2018The job market of the future will be divided between work that can be outsourced and work that can’t. You can’t hammer a nail over the internet.
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Filipino migrants gave grape strike its radical politics
May 3, 2018The great Delano grape strike started on September 8, 1965, when Filipino pickers stayed in their labor camps, and refused to go into the fields.
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Congressional GOP lets business lobbyists rewrite labor law
May 3, 2018The Chamber of Commerce was so brazen that it had a notorious anti-union PR firm handing out press packets touting its bill at a Congressional hearing.
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Workplace organizing pays off, just ask public school teachers
April 30, 2018The wave of teachers' strikes shows that workers can effect change even under extremely hostile conditions, through sustained workplace organization and audacity.
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