unions

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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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• 4-7-14
  

  Will There Be a Happy Ending to Ohio's Close Brush with a Rightwing Fantasy?

  by John T. McNay

  Senate Bill 5, derived mainly from the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), was designed to crush public unions across the state.

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• SOURCE: Huff Post
  3-30-14
  

  New film about Cesar Chavez

  Many people thought Cesar Chavez was crazy to think he could build a union among migrant farmworkers.