Working Life

    I was struck today, as I have been for the past several weeks, at the void created when John Edwards suspended his campaign for president. Today, it was on the issue of trade and globalization, courtesy of a piece in The Wall Street Journal entitled "Decoding Candidates On Trade."     Here’s an important paragraph, […]

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    I’ve just been told by a usually reliable source that two major unions–Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union–are meeting today to make national endorsements and they will endorse Barack Obama. This is huge in many respects for Sen. Obama’s campaign.     First, the two unions together account for […]

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    I’ve just been told by a usually reliable source that two major unions–Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union–are meeting today to make national endorsements and they will endorse Barack Obama. This is huge in many respects for Sen. Obama’s campaign.     First, the two unions together account for […]

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    Before yours truly goes out to the picket lines for the Writers Guild of America (Time Warner Center Noon-2 p.m. for those of you in NYC…and, who knows, maybe this will be one of the last picket lines of the strike if the deal being discussed among the members this weekend passes muster), I […]

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    Before yours truly goes out to the picket lines for the Writers Guild of America (Time Warner Center Noon-2 p.m. for those of you in NYC…and, who knows, maybe this will be one of the last picket lines of the strike if the deal being discussed among the members this weekend passes muster), I […]

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    One interesting aspect–and an important one that has gotten very little coverage in the media (please put links to anything you see in the Comments section)–is what happens now to the labor support that John Edwards had. I suspect that  the campaigns of both Sens. Clinton and Obama are working the phones hard to […]

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    One interesting aspect–and an important one that has gotten very little coverage in the media (please put links to anything you see in the Comments section)–is what happens now to the labor support that John Edwards had. I suspect that  the campaigns of both Sens. Clinton and Obama are working the phones hard to […]

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    Ben Smith of the Politico talked to me New Year’s Eve about whether Sen. Obama was doing long-lasting damage to his relations with labor because of his criticism of 527 money flowing in to Iowa in support of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. Obama never actually used the words "special interest" and "unions" in […]

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    Ben Smith of the Politico talked to me New Year’s Eve about whether Sen. Obama was doing long-lasting damage to his relations with labor because of his criticism of 527 money flowing in to Iowa in support of Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. Obama never actually used the words "special interest" and "unions" in […]

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    This was interesting. Yesterday, the AFL-CIO and UFCW issued a joint press release about a victory in a long battle: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will finally require–drumroll, please-employers to pay for safety-related materials like goggles, fire-resistant clothing, face shields, hard hats and other safety equipment. Only in America–or other societies where workers […]

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