Even if voters overturn the state’s anti-union law today, as polls suggest, it’ll be a defensive win—not a step forward.Â
Harold Meyerson
Posted inEconomic Policy
One Big Question
What is America’s learning curve on the 2008 economic collapse?
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Sign for OWS
We learn from Samuel Brittan’s column in the Financial Times today that when Winston Churchill was the U.K.’s chancellor of the exchequer in 1925, he wrote in a letter to a British Treasury official that he’d like to see “finance less proud and industry more secure.”
Posted inWorking in America
McEntee, Head of AFSCME, to Retire
Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municiple Employees (AFSCME), the 1.4 million-member union that is the largest in the AFL-CIO, has told certain members of AFSCME’s executive board that he will not run for re-election. McEntee has been heading AFSCME since 1981 and is the senior member of the AFL-CIO’s […]
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The L.A. Dodgers, Sold into Freedom
The decay of Dodger ownership can be read as a kind of parable for the decay of American capitalism
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Strike While It’s Hot
Will #OccupyOakland succeed in shutting down the city?
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Half-Right Brooks
The disintegration of working-class families is no accident.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Steve Jobs and the Chinese Wall
The former Apple CEO might have been an innovator, but there’s one thing he didn’t invent: exploiting foreign workers.
Posted inArticle
How the Times Have Changed, Part 386
On Wednesday afternoon, within a few minutes of one another, many of America’s leading unions — the Service Employees, the Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers — not to mention labor’s omnibus federation, the AFL-CIO — all released endorsements of Occupy Wall Street and its ongoing demonstrations in New York’s (and the world’s) financial center. […]
