Category Archives: Labor and Community Activism

The “Other America”: The Poverty and Peril of Domestic Workers

Posted on October 19, 2020 by

America is mired in a crisis of unprecedented scope and depth.  The disruption of the pandemic is draining for all of us, but for many, its consequences are dire. For the millions of people who’ve had little or no work … Continue reading →

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Undelivered: The DeJoy Scandal and Democracy in the Balance

Posted on September 14, 2020 by

In this turbulent moment, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy aptly symbolizes the precarious state of both our democracy and the workers on whose shoulder its future rests.  Last week,  a Washington Post team uncovered seven former employees of New Breed Logistics … Continue reading →

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Unemployed Workers of the World Unite?!?

Posted on September 7, 2020 by

Karl Marx’s famous phrase spoke of the unemployed as the “industrial reserve army.” His argument was plain. Creating greater unemployment was a key tool in giving employers the upper hand in forcing down wages and disciplining workers. I can still … Continue reading →

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No Class: Why You Should Be Getting Your Labor News from Teen Vogue

Posted on August 31, 2020 by

Last Wednesday NBA players refused to take the court for their playoff games in order to protest the latest police shooting of an unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake of Kenosha, Wisconsin, who survived the shooting but is now paralyzed. In … Continue reading →

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George Floyd and the Costs of Racial Capitalism

Posted on June 8, 2020 by

George Floyd’s public viewing will be held this afternoon at The Fountain of Praise Church in southwest Houston. A private funeral service will occur tomorrow followed by burial in Houston Memorial Gardens Cemetery about sixteen miles south of Houston’s Third … Continue reading →

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May Day 2020: Workers in the Pandemic Time

Posted on April 27, 2020 by

Around the world, the first of May, is generally celebrated as a public holiday.  May Day’s origins go back to 1886, when 300,000 U.S. workers in 13,000 businesses laid down their tools in a general strike, joining 40,000 in Chicago … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 Is a Perfect Storm for Women Workers

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

America’s women workers have been living in a straw house perched high on a cliff, and COVID-19 is the perfect storm.  Though research reveals that men are more likely to succumb to the virus, women will be disproportionately devastated by … Continue reading →

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The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later

Posted on April 13, 2020 by

April 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the crime that propelled Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti into the international media spotlight: the robbery and double murder at the Slater & Morrill Shoe Company Factory in South Braintree, … Continue reading →

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National Labor Relations Board Twists the Knife in the Heart of Unions and Workers

Posted on November 18, 2019 by

It may be hard to remember, but the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is supposed to ensure the right of workers to organize and safeguard the stated public policy expounded in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which favors collective … Continue reading →

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En Guerre: Populism and a Plant Closing in France

Posted on October 28, 2019 by

Stéphane Brizé’s En Guerre (At War), released in France in 2018 and in the United States this July, tells the story a car factory closing in Agen, a small company town in the southwest of France.  In this grim and … Continue reading →

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