When workers’ power is diminished and people’s voices are shut out of the workplace, job quality and job standards suffer.
Race & Ethnicity
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Here’s How to Achieve Full Employment
If we don’t get there, then many communities—particularly those of color—will be left out of the recovery.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Democrats in Opposition
They can become the party of working Americans and win. Or they can appease Wall Street and lose.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Labor at a Crossroads: Will Diversity Foster a New Solidarity and Save the Movement?
The determination to represent the entire working class is the best chance labor has had in over 40 years to put the “labor question” before the nation again.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?
North Carolina’s protest movement has galvanized the state’s progressives, but couldn’t stop 2014’s Republican tide. Its leaders say they’re only just beginning.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Labor at a Crossroads: Time to Experiment
New organizing will be propelled by committed activists, but will have to be sustained by huge numbers of members and supporters.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Labor at a Crossroads: Can Broadened Civil Rights Law Offer Workers a True Right to Organize?
It’s one way to allow victims of anti-union discrimination to sue in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Five Years After Earthquake, Haiti Teeters Between Chaos and Hope
On a grim anniversary, much is left to be done. But a brewing political crisis could put a dent in those plans.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
How to Be a Walking ‘Confirmation Bias’ (Role Model: Mia Love)
It’s easy to write off Mia Love and Allen West but these very visible blacks hurt the quest for equality.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Scalise Scandal Rooted in Secret Societies’ Hold on Paths to Power — Through Violence
From campus rape to the House whip’s ‘need’ to address white supremacists, it’s starkly clear that American roots of gender, race and sexual violence run deep. So what are we going to do about it?
