LA Times journalists vote to unionize
From today’s LA Times: Journalists at the Los Angeles Times have overwhelmingly elected to form a union, a first for the 136-year-old news organization that for much of its history…
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MLK Day 2018, A Time to Reflect on Socio-Economic Injustice In All Forms
In honor of MLK Day, we post a short educational video here with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin that draw the connection between racial injustice and…
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Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From New York Times: From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming…
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Employees do want their job to matter, but meaning at work can be hard to find
From today’s Chicago Tribune by Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz: Jennifer Ruiz holds her patient’s trembling hand as she presses a stethoscope to the frail woman’s chest and belly. She compliments the woman…
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N.F.L. Players May Have an Ally in Their Protests: Labor Law
From today’s New York Times by Noam Scheiber:As National Football League team owners consider President Trump’s call to fire players who refuse to stand for the national anthem, they have…
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Head of AFL-CIO explains, “Why I Quit Trump’s Business Council”
From the New York Times “Opinion” Section, August 16, 2017 by Richard Trumka: On Tuesday, President Trump stood in the lobby of his tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and…
Trump continues to cyberbully, further proving he is unfit for the office
#RealNews from today’s New York Times: WASHINGTON — Thirty years as a union boss in Indiana have given Chuck Jones a thick skin. But even threats to shoot him or…
Cal State Faculty Unions protest Chancellor Tim White’s campus visits, prepare themselves for strike
Hundreds of thousands of Cal State students will not have to worry about their professors going out on strike after the union representing faculty members failed to authorize a work…
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Strong Unions, Strong Democracy
From yesterday’s New York Times “Opinion” by By Richard Kahlenberg IF the questions that came up during oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association on Monday are any guide,…
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Fast-food protests: Dozens of workers are arrested in strike for higher pay
From LA Times September 4 by Shal Li, Tina Susman, and Tony Perry. Dozens of fast-food workers from Los Angeles to Manhattan were arrested as they escalated a fight for…