March Madness and 'the brute physical facts'
The New Yorker
Reader Responses
Reader Responses to Grocery Unions and Obamacare; Freelancers; Better Unions
Social Security, Present and Future
The New York Times
Lawmakers push to unionize, regulate Medi-Cal interpreters
Sacramento Bee
Thousands of Medi-Cal medical interpreters would have the right to join a public employees union and collectively bargain with the state under a legislative push to regulate that profession.
Dinner Date
The New York Times
Cheating Our Children
The New York Times
Grocery Unions At Stop & Shop Take Obamacare’s Leap of Faith
In These Times
Some 40,000 workers at more than 250 New England supermarkets approved new collective bargaining agreements this month in an uneasy embrace by their union of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, also known as Obamacare.
some useful lessons for resistance
The Guardian
AFL-CIO’s Trumka Looks to Remake U.S. Labor Movement
The Washington Post
In an interview taped for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program, Richard Trumka said he was seeking a more formal alliance with key elements of the Democratic Party’s liberal base, including civil rights organizations and women’s rights groups. The hope, he said, is to broaden union membership beyond the traditional realm of workplace-based organizing. The full interview is scheduled to air on C-SPAN Sunday at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Making Waves Since 1961
New Internationalist
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