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Joe Burns
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Bad News for Labor: New Detroit Newspaper Strike Book Underscores a Broken System
In the mid-1990s, 2,500 newspaper workers at the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press engaged in a more »
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The PATCO Strike, Reagan and the Roots of Labor’s Decline
If you ask any union activist what went wrong with the labor movement in the last several decades, more »
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The Real Issue in the Boeing Case: The Right to Strike
To Republicans presidential candidates, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) decision to issue a complaint against more »
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Why the Labor Movement Is Not Just Another Protest Movement
Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson recently examined the developing trend in which unions abandon the workplace to become more »
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Reviving the Strike: Where Do We Go From Here?
During the 1950s, American workers went on strike an average of 350 times each year. In the past decade, more »
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Reviving the Strike: Lessons from the Pittston Struggle
During the 1950s, American workers went on strike an average of 350 times each year. In the past decade, more »
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Reviving the Strike: Labor’s Failed Search for Alternatives
During the 1950s, American workers went on strike an average of 350 times each year. In the past decade, more »
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Reviving the Strike: Lessons of the 1930s for Today’s Labor Movement
During the 1950s, American workers went on strike an average of 350 times each year. In the past decade, more »
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Look Past Public Workers—the Root of Labor’s Crisis Lies in Private Sector
When I remember the heroic upsurge in Madison this winter, the subtitle of labor journalist Steve Early&rsquo more »
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It’s Time to Revive an Old Rallying Cry: Labor Is Not A Commodity!
For America's labor movement to survive, it must recommit to—and defend—the principles that once more »
