The trucking company’s demise reads like a history of modern capitalism.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Ford Says Electric Cars Just Aren’t Affordable
What it doesn’t say is that the potential buying public is badly underpaid.
Posted inWorking in America
What’s at Stake in the Hollywood Writers’ Strike
Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back.
Posted inTAP
Will the Teamsters’ Gains at UPS Help Them Unionize Amazon?
Today on TAP: The wage increases matter, but banning the constant surveillance of workers should really resonate with Amazon employees.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Building Power Is Not Optional
A response to Ezra Klein, who thinks I’m wrong to suggest that coalition support is the way to political and policy success in green industrial policy
Posted inEducation in America
The Nightmare of American Public School Teaching
Moral injury is driving teachers out of the profession. Here’s how to help them stay.
Posted inWorking in America
Inside the Teamsters’ Historic Contract at UPS
The union’s new leadership used effective messaging and rank-and-file organization to win significant gains.
Posted inWorking in America
How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
Posted inWorking in America
Unions Are Trying to Save Hollywood From Its Own Foolish Executives
Left to their own devices, the CEOs will ruin the American film and TV industry.
Posted inWorking in America
Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms
Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.
