Jesse Hagopian: We Will Not Teach Lies
Jesse Hagopian is an activist teacher in the Seattle Public Schools, a leader in Black Lives Matter at School and editor of the book More...
Category : Inequality
Chile: Former Student Leader Wins Presidency
The people of Chile are expunging the last traces of the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet. They elected Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old member of the Chilean...
Capital & Main: Scholars Who Study Unions Are Harassed
This part of Capital & Main’s examination of union busting reviews the targeting of academics who study labor by corporate critics. It was written by...
Capital & Main: How Much Corporations Pay to Bust Unions (A Lot!)
This article in the Capital & Main series was written by Marcus Baram and is titled ”Inside the Secretive World of Union-Busting: Here’s How Much...
Capital & Main: How Employers Use Technology to Thwart Union Drives
In part one of its review of union busting, written by Jo Constantz, Capital & Main examines how employers use technology to defeat unions. It...
Capital & Main: Inside the Secretive World of Union-Busting
When people bemoan the increasing inequality in American society, they usually fail to mention one of the reasons for the huge gaps between those at...
Economic Policy Institute: CEO Pay Rose by 16% in Last Year, While Worker Pay Rose by 1.8%
The Economic Policy Institute unabashedly advocates for workers and unions and publishes accurate data about inequality. It recently revealed that CEO pay rose by 16%...
Steve Ruis: Why the Rich Love the Status Quo
Steve Ruis writes in his blog that “class warfare” is over, finished, kaput. The top .001% won. They made out like bandits during the pandemic...
New Yorker: Union Vote in Bessemer Is Crucial to Revival of Labor and the Fairness of the Economy
Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes in the New Yorker about the importance of the vote on whether to unionize at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The...
Unions and the Future of Democracy
The following essay was written by Michael Podhorzer, Senior Advisor to the president of the AFL-CIO. I totally agree that the key to building a...