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Thomas Geoghegan

Thomas Geoghegan is a Chicago-based attorney and writer, and author of See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation (The New Press, October 2007) and other books.

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Fair Trade

Thomas GeogheganJan 31, 2007

What can the left "trade off" to get labor law reform?

Organized labor's down to 7.4 percent of private sector workers. The big split, between the AFL-CIO and Change to Win, failed to bring on a new golden age of organizing. It seems the only hope is a new labor law.

And labor has a dream bill: the George Miller-authored "Employee Free Choice Act." It has more than a dozen Senate sponsors -- Kennedy, Clinton, Obama, all the party's big guns. It might really work. It would make U.S. labor law like Canada's, maybe even stronger. It would let employees get unions just by signing cards -- without having to run what can be a four- to five-year gauntlet of lawsuits, firings, intimidation, and all the bells and whistles of union-busting campaigns.

Dear Brother Sweeney: An Open Letter to Labor's New Leader

Get out of Washington, hire the idealistic young, and turn Labor back into a movement.

Thomas GeogheganDec 19, 2001

With John Sweeney as the new president of the
AFL-CIO, we now have a labor leader too militant for the New York Times.
The
Times is partly upset because Sweeney's union, the Service Employees
International Union (SEIU), once blocked the Roosevelt Bridge in D.C., as part
of the Justice for Janitors Campaign. In Washington, this may be the one type of
gridlock that can get the country moving.

You're Being Robbed

A few simple ideas on how to revive labor and liberalism.

Thomas GeogheganDec 19, 2001

WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY

    Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations. (Dunlop Commission)
    • Volume I: Fact-Finding;
    • Volume II: Report and Recommendations
        (Government Printing Office, 1994)

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