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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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.