Our editor at large lists his Best of 2022.
Working in America
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Baker at the Barricades
Outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker takes the helm at the NCAA just in time for the college athletes’ revolution.
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Unionized Starbucks Stores Go on a Weekend Strike
The action is over selective closures of union stores, as well as retaliatory behavior against unionized employees.
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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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Union Leader: Stellantis Will Send Electric-Vehicle Jobs to Mexico
1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.
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Bernie to Biden: You Can Give Rail Workers Sick Days
The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.
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Coalition Asks: Where Is Biden’s NLRB?
There were high hopes when a Democratic majority returned to decide labor law, but more than a year in, critical rulings have not been issued, a group of labor lawyers and organizers say.
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Workers on Solar’s Front Lines
Unions are fighting to ensure solar workers are skilled tradesmen, not just exploited temps.
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The Rail Impasse: Your Questions Answered
This is about Wall Street demands for giant profits. Bad labor law gives Democrats few options, but there remain steps that President Biden can take.
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Why I’m on Strike at the University of California
On how to stop a history of recurrent exploitation
