President has begun slashing federal workforce while hobbling labor watchdogs NLRB and EEOC
"The people who keep our food and medicine safe know more about how to make government efficient than an outsider whose companies benefit from the very agencies he is infiltrating." - Julia Conley
Twenty years after quiting, SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO
Cold War anti-communism directly contributed to US labor’s decline in the latter half of the 20th century. That is a betrayal, at home and abroad, of the interests of the working class they were elected to represent.
Trump’s NLRB will likely be filled with lawyers from the union-busting world hell-bent on rolling back workers’ gains.
A review of Blue Collar Empire:The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anti-Communist Crusade by Jeff Schurhke.
Black and Latina women are driving labor union growth in the U.S. amid a decades-long decline in membership. In 2023, Black women’s union membership rate notched a slight bump from 10.3% to 10.5%, while Latinas went up from 8.5% to 8.8%.
The famous Operation Dixie campaign to unionize the South in the 1940s was mostly unsuccessful. Still, it left a positive mark on American society. It’s even possible that the civil rights movement wouldn't have staged the March on Washington without
Natives and settlers: The original culture war
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