We still have two labor systems, and need mass unionization to end our immense inequality, which has its roots in the South.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
American Climate Corps to Focus on Next-Generation Workers
The Biden administration’s workforce development initiative aims to boost green employment options.
Posted inWorking in America
After Ten-Year Battle, a Younger Generation Leads the Way at Volkswagen
The UAW has high hopes for success in organizing the non-union plant in Tennessee, as a first step to campaigns across the South.
Posted inTAP
Steel in His Spine
Today on TAP: Biden’s latest actions on behalf of a domestic steel and shipbuilding industry
Posted inEconomic Policy
TSMC Chips Deal Promotes the Logic of Biden’s Industrial Policy
It rebuts the idea that a lack of skilled U.S. workers is an impediment to manufacturing growth.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The U.S.-Japan Summit and the Nippon Steel Deal
Will the Japanese enlist Biden to let the Nippon acquisition of U.S. Steel proceed?
Posted inTAP
Answering Musk’s and Bezos’s Attacks on Workers’ Rights
Today on TAP: With big money counting on the courts, progressives are taking the fight to the court of public opinion.
Posted inWorking in America
American Workers Get Some Help From an Enlightened German Law
As the UAW seeks to unionize an Alabama Mercedes factory, a new German law requires the company not to go union-busting.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Going Radical
On our weekly news show, David Dayen and Robert Kuttner discuss how policymakers both in America and across the pond need to think bigger.
Posted inWorking in America
Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election
The announcement is the second UAW election planned in the South this year.
