CEOs, Silicon Valley investors, and techno-academics talk to themselves about new technologies, but workers must have a say in these debates as well.
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.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Worker’s Friend? Here’s How Trump Has Waged His War on Workers
A Labor Day look at the president’s continual attacks on America’s working men and women
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
New York Labor Didn’t Shrink From Confronting Amazon
But unions were sharply divided about how to deal with the tech giant.
Posted inWorking in America
How the Public Employee Unions Refused to Die
Confronted with a Supreme Court ruling designed to hobble them, the nation’s public-sector unions have increased in size and grown more militant.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Return of the Strike
This year, thousands of teachers, hotel workers, Google employees, and others walked off the job and won major gains. Which raises two questions: Why now? And will this continue?
Posted inLaw and Justice
SeaWorld’s and Kavanaugh’s Missing Empathy Gene
The Supreme Court nominee showed more concern for overregulation than worker safety in a U.S. Court of Appeals case involving the death of a whale trainer.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Connecting Public Transit to Great Manufacturing Jobs
Madeline Janis, who pioneered local hiring agreements, is now enlisting cities to have railcars and buses made in America—by union workers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What Does the Tax Bill Do for Low-Income Workers?
Basically, nothing. But will that be sufficient to peel away voters?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Driverless Future?
If they ever get the bugs out, autonomous cars will put a lot of human drivers out of work.