During the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, West Virginia workers fought for their rights in a bloody campaign to unionize the coal mines.
Essay
Yes, Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Encourage People to Quit Lousy Jobs. That’s the Point.
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Do we have a right not to work? The answer is we don’t if Democratic leaders stubbornly try to keep the “era of big government” confined to the 20th century.
Commentary
On Workers Memorial Day and International Workers Day
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‘No Matter How Much We Flatten The Curve These Workers Are Most at Risk.’
Commentary
Labor Education Service in Transition
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I invite us to learn through this together. There is no guidebook, no experience to lean on except in the past we share, the ways we have bound together to fight for our collective dignity.
Commentary
Adjusting to Life in a Lockdown
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The public school system made it clear that teachers are disposable. No one denies how enormous and complex the school system is, we merely ask for the basic rights of the city’s most at-risk children and their teachers to be protected.
Community
Getting serious about the economic response to COVID-19
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The first two characteristics of a potential COVID-19 slowdown—that it could come fast and come straight for low-wage workers first—suggest one potential response: rapid direct payments to individuals.
Essay
Book Review: ‘When Workers Shot Back’
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Overall I found When Workers Shot Back to be a careful study of the relationship workers and capital and the resulting reconfiguration of the state’s role in our lives. I would recommend the book for anyone interested in learning more about the history and nuances of the working-class struggle.
Essay
Analysis and Review of Netflix’s ‘American Factory’
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In a system that values them only as labor, these workers retain their humanity and their complexity. It’s the only thing that sets them aside from their robot competitors, which the filmmakers invoke in the movie’s sobering final scenes.
Community
Martin Luther King Jr., Union Man
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If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions.
Essay
The Powerful New Idea in Elizabeth Warren’s Labor Platform
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On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren released her long-awaited labor platform, titled “Empowering American Workers and Raising Wages.” The plan provides unions with a long wish list of badly needed reforms and new powers. It also makes a solid case that, like Bernie Sanders, she would be the labor movement’s biggest booster in the White House in generations.
Essay
The Recent Evolution of Wisconsin Public Worker Unionism since Act 10
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Looking at case studies of Wisconsin’s AFSME, AFT-Wisconsin, SEIU, and WEAC public sector unions, authors David Knack, Michaerl Childers, Alexia Kuwiec, and Armando Ibarra show the various ways public sector workers are navigating the political terrain of anti-union, anti-labor legislation.