Skip to main content

Fire Sale

Chelsea Kirk and Moira Birss Dissent Magazine
In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won. It doesn’t have to be this way.

labor

Do private-sector unions still have a future in the U.S.?

Brad Plumer The Washington Post
Brad Plumer's blog post summarizes a long and interesting essay in the latest issue of "Democracy" that analyzes the decline, and long-term outlook, of private-sector unions in the United States. He highlights 3 factors: Taft-Hartley was the beginning of the end for unions in the private sector; labor’s recent attempts to launch new organizing drives aren’t working; and organized labor tends to expand only at rare points in history.
Subscribe to Private Sector