He appears to be hoping for a Trump victory, which would be a disaster for the Teamsters, but just maybe good for him.
Steven Greenhouse
Steven Greenhouse, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, was a New York Times reporter for 31 years, including 19 as its labor and workplace reporter. He is the author of the book Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.
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Curtailing Starbucks’s War on Its Unionized Baristas
The company is giving raises, but only to workers who haven’t unionized. That’s likely illegal, but the NLRB has yet to stop it.
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What’s Wrong at the Times
Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.
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How Faux-Progressive Starbucks Is Fighting Unionization
Denying raises to its unionized baristas appears to be an effective, if illegal, tactic—at least, until the NLRB clamps down on it.
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Labor’s John L. Lewis Moment
Will today’s unions invest big-time in the young workers now beginning to rebuild American labor? Or will they remain AWOL and ensure the movement’s continued decline?
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Two-Faced Anti-Unionism
At Starbucks, REI, and The New York Times, management insists it’s not anti-union—while waging anti-union campaigns.
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Why Can’t the AFL-CIO Have Two Presidents?
Liz Shuler and Sara Nelson are the combination the labor movement needs.
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A Look at How Unions Lift Workers
Unions aren’t just about strikes and politics—the stories the media covers. There’s a big story the media usually misses about unions: how, concretely, they improve workers’ lives.
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Embracing and Resisting: The Variable Relationships Between Worker Centers and Unions
In some cities, the two kinds of worker organizations frequently collaborate. In other cities, not so much.