Today on TAP: And the strategic challenge facing the always-conflicted Donald Trump
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Posted inWorking in America
After Building Service Workers Mobilize, FTC Stops Secret No-Hire Agreements
A key tool that enables contractors to trap building services personnel in low-wage work has been upended by a bipartisan majority at the Federal Trade Commission.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor’s Prodigal Son Returns
SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge.
Posted inWorking in America
These Teachers Will Have to Cross Party Lines to Get a Union
Can educators in California’s largest nonunion public school district—in a county that flipped to Trump—upend a 65-year tradition?
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Striking Down the Nippon Deal
Today on TAP: National security requires worker security—and some worker power—too.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ford and Musk. They Made Cars. They Backed Fascists.
Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics.
Posted inEducation in America
Universities and the Coming Storm
It’s difficult for colleges to defend democracy if they aren’t run democratically.
Posted inPolitics
Best of 2024: Janie Ekere
Before her tragic passing, our writing fellow focused on rural Americans, marginalized communities, and the swing state she called home.
Posted inWorking in America
The Amazon Strike, the Bezos-Musk-Trump Dinner, and the O’Brien Bet
With their more than half a trillion dollars, Bezos and Musk join forces to make sure Trump doesn’t support even a scintilla of worker power.
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Bidenomics in the Rearview Mirror
Today on TAP: Despite its history-making tilt toward workers and consumers, the electorate didn’t reward it.
