Working Life

 The number that sticks in my mind today, and has since I heard it, is 40 percent. While over half a million people in the U.S. have died of COVID in one year, while millions of people have become sick, while millions of people have lost their jobs, savings and homes, and many people […]

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I love the bosses who wring their hands when workers try to unionize, the ones who say, “don’t you love us? Aren’t we good to you”? That isn’t the point. Everyone needs a union so workers together don’t ever have to rely on just good feelings from employers. Which is what I talk about with […]

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No surprise. The traditional media will never tell people about the multi-billion dollar anti-union industry which corporations use to intimidate any workers who try to organize a union. So, I explore the anti-union industry in several segments of this week’s Labor Day-pegged podcast. I look at the steps Donald Trump is about to take to […]

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   As we shuffle–or maybe that’s scuffle–into the weekend, a small ray of good news: The government will grant collective bargaining rights to the nation’s 40,000 airport screeners, the head of the largest federal workers union said Friday. John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told the Associated Press he was informed […]

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So-called "free trade" is part of the relentless class warfare under way in America. And the so-called "free trade" deal with South Korea is no exception. That said, a lot of the shallow criticism of the UAW’s support for the deal is–well, shallow. Here’s my view about how we should engage the UAW–my union–via an […]

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   On the one hand, this was one of the things that I, and others, worried about when the president announced his Cabinet (and let me just say that it is nice to listen to a president, even one who you disagree with on some fundamental issues of economic power, who can conduct a news […]

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