U.S. Steel’s David Burritt threatens to flatten Pittsburgh. Where’s the (Democratic) indignation?
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To Win Nevada, Harris Must Turn Infrastructure Jobs Into Votes
Reno’s building trades unions are mobilizing their members to support the Democratic nominee.
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The Limits of Harris’s Family Policy
Today on TAP: $6,000 for newborns and universal affordable child care are great—but don’t speak to many young men.
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Populist Candidates in Deep-Red States
A labor-forward, no-nonsense style of Democratic campaigning is emerging in the Plains and Midwest. It’s unclear if it’ll actually work.
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More Evidence for a Big Fed Rate Cut
Today on TAP: Even Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan were less perversely hawkish than current Fed chair Jay Powell, as Barney Frank reminds us.
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U.S. Steel Threatens to Go Rogue
Today on TAP: Its CEO reacts to Biden’s rejection of its sale to Nippon by vowing to lay waste to Pittsburgh.
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Workers Say Plant Eligible for $2 Billion in Public Funds Is Union-Busting
Eos’s Pittsburgh-area battery plant got subsidies aimed at ‘good clean jobs.’ Its workers say they’re getting fired for unionizing.
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The State of the Unions, Labor Day 2024
Growing among professional workers, but still stuck when it comes to organizing nearly everybody else
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How Much Money Do You Need?
Today on TAP: The counterweight to insanely greedy capital has to be mobilized labor.
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Will the Care Agenda Make It This Time?
Bills investing in child care, elder care, and paid leave almost passed a few years ago. What lessons will their champions take with them into the future?
