Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
Joseph A. McCartin
Joseph A. McCartin teaches history at Georgetown University. He is the author of Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America.
Posted inWorking in America
Reaching the End of the PATCO Era?
Forty years after Ronald Reagan made union busting a national norm, labor has a shot at rebuilding worker power.
Posted inWorking in America
Janus’s Progeny? A Supreme Court Threat to Majority Rule Looms
Two cases the Court is considering taking could undermine collective bargaining—and democracy as we know it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
It’s Time for Federal Workers to Get Sick
A sickout by unpaid federal employees could bring the impasse—and their status as hostages to the president’s whim—to an end.
Posted inEducation in America
Before the Chalk Dust Settles: Building on the 2018 Teachers’ Mobilization
By bargaining for and with the larger community, teachers are reinventing collective bargaining.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Radical Roots of Janus
The attorney whose arguments were heard in the Supreme Court yesterday—a decade after his death—actually wanted all unions outlawed.