The Trump Supreme Court Is Nothing New
Tom Dispatch
A History of the Tyranny of the Supremes
A History of the Tyranny of the Supremes
A History of the Tyranny of the Supremes
You’ve Been Lied to About the 1963 March on Washington
Jacobin
The March on Washington was 59 years ago today. It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration where MLK “had a dream” — but in fact, it was the decades-long culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.
At Long Last, Congress Considers a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
Inequality.org
Domestic workers make all other work possible – yet have been excluded from crucial federal labor protections for over 80 years. In a historic first, Congress held a hearing on policy that would finally change that.
labor
Chipotle’s $20 Million Settlement With Workers
Quartz
It is an indictment of the entire restaurant industry.
labor
Work, Work, Work—So a Few Can Be Rich
Counter Punch
Our labor has become a commodity, something bought and sold in the marketplace, no different in principle than raw materials, equipment, and the buildings that house our workplaces.
115,000 Railroad Workers Are Weighing a National Strike
Jacobin
US labor law is designed to prevent railroad strikes like the kind that shook America in the past. But the constant cuts to staffing levels and erosion of conditions for rail workers could produce a national rail walkoff by September.
books
Recent Books of Note for Labor Activists
Labor Notes
A number of veteran organizers and labor journalists are publishing books this year that will be of interest to Labor Notes readers. Many of them participated in a "Meet the Author" session at the recent Labor Notes Conference.
David Moberg, 1943–2022
The Nation
For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.
Dodger Stadium Concession Workers Threaten an All-Star Strike
Capital & Main
When it comes to wages, baseball’s billionaires give stadium workers peanuts. Yet since 2011, the teams’ average value has tripled — from $523 million ($680 million in today’s dollars) to $2.1 billion.
Labor’s John L. Lewis Moment
The American Prospect
Will today’s unions invest big-time in the young workers now beginning to rebuild American labor? Or will they remain AWOL and ensure the movement’s continued decline?
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