Our writing fellow handpicks his Best of 2022.
Working in America
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Baker at the Barricades
Outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker takes the helm at the NCAA just in time for the college athletes’ revolution.
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The Labor Board Gets a Raise
Today on TAP: With organizing campaigns and strikes on the rise, Congress finally proposes to increase funding for the NLRB—for the first time since 2014.
Posted inWorking in America
Unionized Starbucks Stores Go on a Weekend Strike
The action is over selective closures of union stores, as well as retaliatory behavior against unionized employees.
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Splitting the Strikers at UC
Today on TAP: University of California managers divide (and—not clear yet if they’ll—conquer), while General Motors and Microsoft indulge a modicum of worker power.
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What’s Wrong at the Times
Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why the Federal Reserve Should Cool Its Jets on Interest Rates
Recent data shows a strong possibility that inflation will come down on its own.
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Union Leader: Stellantis Will Send Electric-Vehicle Jobs to Mexico
1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.
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Biden’s Agencies Rule: One for the Workers, One Not
Today on TAP: The NLRB goes after employer lawbreaking, while the FTC—just this once?—disregards workers’ concerns.
Posted inPolitics
Can Progressives Govern From the Minority?
Greg Casar, a former city council member from Austin, Texas, says yes.
