John Case
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Case
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Labor
Parables for organizers: Don Tormey and the plane crash
April 15, 2015Tormey's parable of union leadership: "The most important person on the plane became a passenger who was a union organizer; why her?"
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Labor
A parable: Jim Matles and the GE pastry tray
April 1, 2015A parable is a story that has a double meaning. A good one captures the spirit of paradox in every moment yet does not stand still.
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Labor
West Virginia workers launch “insurrection” in state capital
March 10, 2015Demonstrators protesting the national wave of wage and safety cuts and anti-union assaults, were led by the West Virginia AFL-CIO and joined by national labor leaders.
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World
Syriza and the banks: a Greek tale for U.S. workers
February 24, 2015The banks declarations have been painfully exposed as lies, as Greece's economy has shrunk nearly one-third since it began following austerity policies.
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Environment
Hell on rails: West Virginia burning after crude oil train derailment
February 18, 2015The fires from the derailment in Fayette County continued to burn Tuesday morning, and emergency shelters for hundreds of people who had to evacuate after the derailment remain open.
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Opinion
What is “inclusive prosperity?”
January 26, 2015President's Obama's State of the Union address included a welcome centerpiece proposal taxing finance capital and the rich, and giving it to the middle class and poor.
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World
Trade (and geopolitical) wars cut oil prices
January 8, 2015There is a trade war in oil and fossil fuels. It has four causes I can identify.
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U.S.
Economists fight over “Capital”: Piketty vs. establishment
January 7, 2015A Harvard economist was reduced to making personal attacks as he tried to evade Thomas Piketty's key theses about capitalism and its tendencies toward unsustainable inequality.
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