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SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
12/14/2020
Civil Rights Unionism and Democracy for Teachers
by Jesse Chanin
Nat LaCour connected civil rights unionism to teachers’ struggle to build union democracy. A remembrance and evaluation.
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SOURCE: Labor and Employment Law Daily
10/13/2020
Labor Pulse: Is This Election Labor's Last Chance?
by Jim Castagnera
The election presents organized labor with a choice between a death sentence and a reprieve that will prove temporary unless unions can put their needs at the center of a Biden presidency's priorities.
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7/7/2020
Unions Are Essential for Eliminating Racism
A new study finds that unions don't just increase wages and benefits for workers on the job — union membership is also linked to diminished racist attitudes among white workers. If we want to defeat racism, building strong, democratic unions is essential.
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SOURCE: Chicago Teachers Union
5/19/2020
Zoom Webinar: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Discusses "Race for Profit," May 19, 4:30 PM CDT
The award-winning historian and public speaker will discuss the relationship between housing policy and racial inequality in the United States
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SOURCE: St. Paul Union Advocate
5/4/2020
Lessons from Labor History can Inform our Labor Movement During COVID-19 Crisis
by Peter Rachleff
The story of the 1934 Twin Cities' Teamsters strike story shows how the union won better lives for its members by linking workers and their families to the union, other unions, and the community.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/23/2020
Front-Line Workers in the Covid-19 Fight Need Unions
by William P. Jones
Without strengthening labor laws, and extending them to all sectors, we cannot ensure workers have the power to protect their own health and safety on the job and the health and safety of our communities.
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4/19/2020
We Had a Better Social Safety Net. Then We Busted Unions.
by Lane Windham
For a time, union contracts were the closest thing the U.S. had to the kinds of robust social safety nets found in European countries.
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3/6/2020
Jack Welch Was a Bitter Foe of American Workers
by Erik Loomis
Most national obituaries left out or downplayed Jack Welch’s greatest impact in shaping the unequal and unfair America of today: unionbusting.
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12/22/19
Pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act
by Martin Halpern
If unions and their allies win passage of this legislation, they may begin to shift the country away from the glaring inequality that is at the core of the country’s discontent.
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12/8/19
A Boss is a Boss: Nurses Battle for Their First Union Contract at Albany Medical Center
by Lawrence Wittner
A nonprofit employer is not necessarily a better boss than a profit-making one. That sad truth is reinforced by the experience of some 2,200 nurses at Albany Medical Center, who have been fighting for a contract since April 2018, when they voted for union representation.
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SOURCE: NY Times
9/11/19
The Necessary Radicalism of Bernie Sanders
by Jamelle Bouie
Conflict was the engine of labor reform in the 1930s. And mass strikes and picketing, in particular, pushed the federal government to act.
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SOURCE: Time
8/30/19
Beyond Labor Day: 3 Ways Unions Have Helped American Workers
by Peter Cole
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
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1/5/19
History in Crisis: 5 Challenges to Organizing Graduate Student Workers and 3 Ways to Still Succeed
by Kyla Sommers
What panelists at #AHA19 had to say graduate student labor and organizing on college campuses.
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9-3-17
How Did Workers Win the Right to Form a Union and Go on Strike?
by Timothy P. Lynch
It happened in Flint, Michigan 80 years ago. We should remember it today. It was American labor’s biggest victory of the 20th century.
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SOURCE: LAWCHA
12-1-15
Woodrow Wilson's other problem
by Chad Pearson
Three of his key supporters favored the open shop, the union-busting position of conservative business interests.
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SOURCE: American Prospect
4-30-15 (accessed)
How Gilded Ages End
by Paul Starr
Protecting democracy from oligarchic dominance is, once again, a central imperative of American politics.
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3-8-15
This Is What Right-to-Work Means
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
“Right to work” sounds benign, if not all-American. It is in fact malignant, not just for organized labor, but also a state’s economic health.
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1-4-15
Can You Have a Liberalism without Labor? (Video)
by Nelson Lichtenstein
We may be about to find out.
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What Happened to the Democratic Party? They Killed Santa Claus. (Video)
by Rick Perlstein
How the Democrats turned right and lost America.
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10-25-14
Review of Stanley Aronowitz's “The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement”
by Robert Parmet
Stanley Aronowitz is again challenging American workers to rethink their place in the economy.
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