Specialty contractors and labor brokers are among the participants reducing their own labor costs by burdening workers unfairly.
Working in America
Posted inEconomic Policy
We Never Had Free Trade
The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main culprits are the American capitalists who devised the system, not foreigners.
Posted inPolitics
The Abundance Option
Fifteen years ago, I wrote that Democrats couldn’t build things anymore, and that Dems needed to better balance regulation with production.
Posted inWorking in America
America’s Only Half-Right-to-Work State May Finally Treat Unions Fairly
Colorado’s Democratic legislature is passing a bill to make worker organizations more feasible. But will the Democratic governor sign it?
Posted inWorking in America
Trump Quietly Decimates a Pivotal Labor Relations Agency
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has been destroyed. It provided free collective-bargaining mediation and saved hundreds of millions of dollars in labor costs.
Posted inWorking in America
Trump Stomps Workers
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Posted inWorking in America
Global Working Conditions Matter for American Workers
The Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S.
Posted inTAP
Bezos Attacks Toddler Safety
Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.
Posted inPolitics
Bernie’s ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour Is Organizing, Too
Capitalizing on a surge of Democratic energy, the Sanders team is hiring full-time organizers and pushing supporters toward critical local issues.
Posted inPolitics
For a Left Nationalism
Trump’s ‘America First’ nightmare isn’t the only way to think about U.S. identity.
