With last week’s victory at the University of California, roughly 100,000 UAW members work for universities.
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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Just How Exceptional Are the Buffalo Baristas?
They’ve unionized one Starbucks. They symbolize a fed-up proletariat. But does their victory portend anything further?
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January 6th Defendants Allege Police Brutality. Come Again?
Today on TAP: Cops to blame for violence during riots? That would be a novel, and whites-only, development.
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Can Career Senators Learn to Speak Presidential?
Today on TAP: The strange cases of Bob Dole, Joe Biden, and LBJ
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Who Said Musicals Are for Kids?
Stephen Sondheim and the adult-ification of the American musical theater
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A ‘Roe’ Repeal Would Drive a Wedge Into Republicans’ Aspirations
Today on TAP: The party base is all for it, but the suburban swing voters who went Republican last month in Virginia would be appalled.
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Biden the Silent
Today on TAP: The Democrats’ ‘messaging problem’ is partly due to Biden’s avoidance of the biggest bully pulpit, one only a president can use.
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A New Regime at the Teamsters
Like Joe Biden, incoming Teamster president Sean O’Brien is an establishment guy turned reformer.
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Building Back Better Through Taxing Stock Buybacks
Today on TAP: Rather than squandering money on CEOs’ rewarding themselves, the tax would fund needed investment. Do I hear a second?
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Electric Cars AND Union Workers
Today on TAP: The Build Back Better bill’s support for both exemplifies the just transition we need to save the planet. And—surprise—Joe Manchin doesn’t like it.