Massachusetts Unions Vote to Vet Presidential Candidates on Medicare for All
The Intercept
This is a break with AFL-CIO national policy
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The Radical Guidebook Embraced by Google Workers and Uber Drivers
The New York Times
Technology and ride-hailing workers embrace lessons from a book based on ideas associated with a labor group, the IWW, from the early 20th century. The book has provided a blueprint for organizing collective power without a formal union.
Religious Freedom: Freedom to Discriminate?
Working Class Perspectives
The Trump Administration is arguing at the Supreme Court that employers should be able to fire LGBTQ workers. If religion can be used to deny workers rights as individuals, it can be used to upend the struggle for collective rights and dignity.
The Return of the Strike
The Progressive
The picketing GM workers and impending Chicago Teachers Union action suggest a dramatic revival of striking as a tactic.
With Go Ahead from the Office of Personnel Management, Agencies Press Forward With Efforts to Cripple Federal Unions
Government Executive
While employee unions are vowing to continue their fight against the orders, agencies are taking steps to strip the groups of their previously enjoyed rights and perks. Unions likely to face evictions, severe restrictions on official time.
The Powerful New Idea in Elizabeth Warren’s Labor Platform
In These Times
The biggest innovation in Warren’s platform is a private right of action in the federal courts against employers. The biggest disappointment of Warren’s labor plan is her studious avoidance of a just cause right to your job, as Sanders has proposed.
Southern Worker Strikes Show The Power of Solidarity
Liberation News
49,000 United Auto Worker members went on strike on Sept. 16 against General Motors, in the largest walkout there since 2007. While most plants are in the Midwest, they are also in Texas, Kentucky, Kansas, Tennessee and Missouri.
Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal
Yes!
The city exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal.
5 Things to Know About Eugene Scalia, Trump’s New Labor Secretary with a Famous Dad
Vox
There’s a new member of the Trump administration. His name is Eugene Scalia, and he’s now the US labor secretary. US labor leaders are worried that he will work hard to undo worker protections put in place under the Obama administration.
Canadian Unions and a Green New Deal
RankandFile.CA
The role of unions in building towards a just transition must fit the scale of the crisis. Labour has an opportunity to use the platform of a Green New Deal to demand publicly owned services and large-scale job creation.
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