Ontario’s Strong Mayor Reforms

Tom McDowell Canadian Dimension
Strong mayor reforms are a ruling class effort to insulate neoliberal policies from democratic interference

Management Rights: Negotiating Your First Contract

Robert M. Schwartz Labor Notes
First, employers want to take away the union’s statutory right to receive advance notice of any significant changes that might affect employees. Second, they want to take away the union’s legal right to bargain to agreement or impasse before the employer puts the change into effect.

Friday Nite Videos | January 6, 2023

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The Case for a $20/Hour Minimum Wage. The Beat, It Travels: Reggaeton. Boebert and Hannity Clash, Republicans Turn On Trump. How Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole. What New Zealand Can Teach Us About Reparations.

The Case for a $20/Hour Minimum Wage

Workers say the $15 minimum wage is now unlivable. NY State Senator Jessica Ramos is leading a bill to raise the minimum wage to $20/hour and index it to inflation.

The Beat, It Travels: Reggaeton

Reggaeton's rich history, from Panama to Puerto Rico and beyond, is a celebration of collaboration across cultures, making it one of the world's favorite genres.

Why Socialists Need To Talk About Justice

Lillian Cicerchia Jacobin
It’s not enough for socialists to point out capitalism’s many faults — we need to explain our positive vision of the future and how it lives up to our ideals of justice.