Author Profile
Roger Bybee

Roger Bybee is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and University of Illinois visiting professor in Labor Education.
Roger’s work has appeared in numerous national publications, including Z magazine, Dollars & Sense, The Progressive, Progressive Populist, Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Yes! and Foreign Policy in Focus.
More of his work can be found at zcommunications.org/zspace/rogerdbybee.
Asked by the Memphis Metropulse to discuss who carries on the same kind of work as he does, Noam Chomsky stated, “There are a great many people who could be doing these things, and who simply are not invited because they’re unknown, people doing extremely good work…Just today I’ve happened to read extremely good articles on these topics [ corporate globalization and deindustrialization] by Roger Bybee.”
Roger’s articles have appeared in numerous anthologies, including It Started in Wisconsin, The Economic Crisis Reader, Real World Labor (2009/2011),The World Economy: Current Controversies, and Opposing Viewpoints: Urban Agriculture. His e-mail address is winterbybee@gmail.com.
Bybee edited The Racine Labor weekly newspaper for 14 years in his hometown of Racine, Wis., where his grandfathers and father were socialist and labor activists, and Bybee played a leading role in fighting plant shutdowns. In 1988, he was selected as the local “Labor Person of the Year.”
Bybee has written extensively for years on the policies and voting record of Rep. Paul Ryan of southeastern Wisconsin, now running as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Sirius Radio host Mike Feder recently observed, “Roger Bybee is an indispensable source on Paul Ryan.”
He lives in Milwaukee, Wis. with his wife Carolyn Winter, who is also a writer. They have two children and two grandchildren.
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Is Gov. Scott Walker Preparing to Push for Right to Work in Wisconsin?
The chips are down in Wisconsin. Wisconsin employers’ war against union rights may be about to heat up again as Republican legislators weigh pushing for a “right-to-work” bill. MORE
Working · January 15, 2015
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With Election in a Dead Heat, Union-Busting Gov. Scott Walker Attacks the Unemployed
With under two weeks to election day in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state... MORE
Working · October 29, 2014
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Scott Walker’s Offshoring Flip-flop
Wisconsin Gov. Walker's convenient crusade against offshoring may prove to be surprisingly good for the state's working people. MORE
Features · August 20, 2014
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Can Scott Walker Be Defeated?
Three years ago, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker first dropped what he called a "bomb,” one that suddenly and swiftly decimated the union rights of public employees. Walker’s legislation, Act 10, ignited... MORE
Working · April 16, 2014
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Boeing Holds Jobs Hostage in Two-Pronged Fight With State Government and Machinists
For much of the last few years, Boeing has been soaring. In 2012, the aircraft-manufacturing corporation raked in $3.9 billion in net income; it’s projected to earn at least $4.2 billion this year. And... MORE
Working · November 25, 2013
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Off the Rails: How a Lack of Oversight Doomed Lac-Megantic
When a runaway train slammed into the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic in July, incinerating the city’s core and killing 47 people, it may have marked the end of the line for... MORE
Working · September 19, 2013
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Pizza-Making Strikers Win Small Slice of Justice in Milwaukee
The 14-month-long strike at Palermo’s Pizza in Milwaukee produced a small slice of justice this week for the Mexican immigrant workers who have been fighting for higher wages, safer conditions and... MORE
Working · August 5, 2013
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The Demise of Labor Papers is a Crisis—Is It Also an Opportunity?
The Milwaukee Labor Press has become the latest labor newspaper to fall victim to major declines in union membership, ending publication after 73 years as the tribune of working people in what had been,... MORE
Working · June 14, 2013
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Mississippi Lavishes $1.3 Billion in Subsidies on Nissan as Workers Get the Shaft
Thirteen years after Japan-based automaker Nissan chose the small, impoverished community of Canton, Miss., as the site of a new auto-assembly plant, a just-released study shows that the company is failing to... MORE
Working · May 24, 2013
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Survey Shows Overwhelming Public Support for Social Security
In order to deliver the pound of flesh demanded by Republicans to resolve the sequestration impasse, President Obama is moving to concede to a “chained CPI” (Consumer Price Index) for Social... MORE
Working · March 15, 2013