Shaun Richman is Program Director at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College.
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The de Blasio Paradox
He’s enacted more groundbreaking progressive legislation than any other Democratic presidential candidate. And he’s going nowhere fast. Read more
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Can the Courts Strike Down Right-to-Work?
After decades of anti-worker rulings, unions are now challenging Taft-Hartley on free speech and other constitutional grounds. Read more
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Will Trump’s Labor Board Say Workers Have No Right to Float a Balloon?
The NLRB’s top attorney is gunning for unions’ inflatable rat—but may miss and hit the restrictions on workers’ right to free speech. Read more
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Staten Island Goes Purple
Democrat Max Rose ousts its Republican congressman, no thanks to its ossified Democratic machine. Read more
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Take This Bullshit Job and Pretend to Love It
David Graeber's new book explores why millions of people's labor seems divorced from meaning or value. Read more
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Republicans Are Hard at Work to Turn Staten Island Blue
The Trump faithful in the only GOP quadrant of New York City may go for an ex-con Steve Bannon guy in June’s Republican primary. Read more
Company Towns Are Still with Us
And as unions’ difficulties in organizing auto plants make clear, where a company dominates the town, unionization is really hard. Read more
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Want to Really Help Workers? Protect their Speech!
Americans’ First Amendment rights should apply to American workers. Read more
