Bruce Bostick
LATEST ARTICLES BY Bruce Bostick
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Opinion
A steelworker makes the case: Election is about revitalizing unions, protecting retirement
October 8, 2020There are some who have said that Biden “isn’t radical enough,” that they’d have to “hold their noses” to vote for him and Harris. Well, whatever rings their bells. For us union folks, the choice is...
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Opinion
Trump using record unemployment to push an anti-labor agenda
May 28, 2020This is a brazen attempt by Trump, McConnell, GOP and corporations to break our backs, wipe out the most basic of all working people’s rights. We won’t stand for it.
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Opinion
Irish repay debt from famine to Native American Choctaws
May 27, 2020“First Nation’s” people, Native Americans, are suffering horribly, with our national administration making this situation worse.
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Opinion
‘Anti-lockdown protesters’ are nothing but strikebreakers
May 18, 2020There are two sides in this class battle over reopening the economy, and right-wing armed protesters are not on workers' side.
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Labor
Is it time to think about Unemployed Councils?
April 24, 2020Unemployed Councils cropped up in the 1930s during the Great Depression and again in the 1980s after mass layoffs. Do we need them again today?
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Opinion
All honor to the San Patricios, the St. Patrick’s Battalion
September 12, 2019Official U.S. history paints the Mexican War (1846-48) as a story of “heroic” American settlers fighting for “freedom” from Mexico. The Irish immigrants who gave their all saw that fight far differently.
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CP100
Working-class solidarity: George Edwards and the pink hard hat
September 3, 2019The interesting thing we learned is that the “perfect issue” to organize around wasn't any of the big ideas we had, but rather what the workers themselves wanted.
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Politics
Only through unity can Trump be defeated
August 21, 2019We need to look at unity against Trump much as we look at the need for unity against fascism.
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