The scandal-plagued governor scrambled to sign anti-union legislation and a stack of other bills before he resigned.
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The Legacy of Paul Schrade
Not just the other guy who was shot in the Ambassador kitchen
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Jobless Due to Trade? Robots? AI? Why America Needs ‘Just Transitions’
Instead of Band-Aids and nostrums, Democrats need to embrace policies like full employment to win back the support of workers.
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What the Teacher Strikes Mean
The white-collar rising of 2018 reflects millennial militancy, the death of the Norquist pledge, and one more issue on which Democrats need to move left.
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The Happiest Place On Earth? Not For Disney Employees
Disney employees in Florida and California cry foul as the entertainment giant uses promised one-time bonuses as a bargaining chip against higher pay raises.
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How Unions Help Immigrants Resist Deportations
In California, labor has long protected its immigrant members—and now, it’s defending non-members as well.
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Amazon Warehouses May Leave Cities Worse For Wear
A new report finds that localities with Amazon warehouses haven’t seen an overall boost in employment.
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An Organizer’s Life
There’s a scene in last year’s documentary by Lilly Rivlin, Heather Booth: Changing the World, in which Heather and Paul Booth discuss how they met at an anti-war sit-in at the University of Chicago’s administration building in 1966. “The sit-in lasted several days and nights. We got to know each other very well,” Paul recalled. […]
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Paul Booth, 1943-2018
Six days ago, I was having an email exchange with the author of a piece I was editing on how Democrats can both turn out their base and reach out to voters outside their base in the 2018 midterms. We were going back and forth on three points in the piece—chiefly, on whether Latinos could […]
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L.A. Times: Will Union Vote Conk Tronc?
In response to management turmoil, editorial staffers at the Los Angeles Times are voting on unionization for the first time in the newspaper’s history.
