Labor
Unions move to protect workers from coronavirus, McDonald’s doesn’t
March 12, 2020Unions moved quickly to try to protect workers and families from the spreading coronavirus, even as it potentially costs their members jobs. Many businesses, state, and local governments and even major league baseball and the NBA...
Read more
Claudia Jones School inaugural event in D.C. features Bill Fletcher, Jr.
March 12, 2020Fletcher’s talk, the highlight of the evening, provided an historical analysis of the role played by Black workers in the U.S. labor movement.
Read more
Trump betrayed his promise to fight for American workers
March 5, 2020When it comes to protecting workers’ health and safety or winning union rights, his administration has been a disaster.
Read more
Organized labor and politics down south: Conversation with a rank-and-filer
March 4, 2020Governing elites in the southern U.S. have been passionately anti-union pretty much since we stopped being a British colony.
Read more
‘Sorry We Missed You’: Not sorry we robbed you!
February 25, 2020Possibly more than any of this other work, Sorry We Missed You stands as an example of the economic struggles which define our times.
Read more