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Posted inWorking in America
Minnesota Workers Strike Down Shady Provision That Restricts Their Freedom of Employment
The state banned so-called ‘restrictive covenants’ that make contracted labor agreements harder to break.
Posted inPolitics
A Vice-Presidential Nominee With a Worker-First Agenda
Tim Walz is seen as a champion for workers. But how have they actually done under his leadership? Pretty well.
Posted inPolitics
A Policy Gimmick Amid the Joy
Kamala Harris borrows from Donald Trump with a perk to the Culinary Union at a raucous rally in Las Vegas: eliminating taxes on tips.
Posted inBooks
Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
Posted inPolitics
The Case for Pragmatic Socialism
The times are right for a socialist agenda that America can accept. We even have examples of it in practice.
Posted inTAP
Caterpillar Treading on Workers
Today on TAP: Why is the Biden-Harris administration failing to enforce the labor provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement?
Posted inWorking in America
Waffle House Workers Challenge the Southern Economy
One union chips away at the vestiges of Jim Crow–era labor policies.
Posted inTAP
Kamala’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Today on TAP: And how she can talk to working-class voters
