Adjusting wages to the rising costs of living, as the UAW is demanding, is necessary, but the gap between investment income and wages will still keep rising.
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What the Writers Won
The Guild’s agreement attempts to restore the elements of the traditional system that made entertainment writing sustainable. It mostly succeeds, with one caveat.
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A Union of Their Own
How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union
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The UAW Strike Could Redefine Biden and the Democrats. Good.
President Biden joined striking workers on the picket line. Former ‘car czar’ Steve Rattner is furious.
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Hooked on Bidenomics
How does the president’s economic policy interact with the auto workers’ strike? David Dayen explains.
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Biden on the Picket Line, Trump in the Wings
The all-but-certain presidential nominees court the nation’s blue-collar voters.
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UAW Workers in California Stand Up as Strike Expands
Strikers have twice had guns pulled on them by non-union truckers seeking to use a distribution center to move auto parts to dealers.
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Working-Class Joe
Today on TAP: Biden is truly helping working people. What will it take for more voters to get that?
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The GOP Is Beginning to Look Like Europe’s New Far-Right Parties
Holding their working-class base with racist, nativist demagogy may also require a little less laissez-faire.
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The Punditocracy vs. the UAW
Today on TAP: Commentators argue that the union is asking for too much. But a big win may help the UAW organize the non-union competition.