Tag: guest opinion
OPINION: Waltons: What’re you doing for America?
By BILL ENYART
Like many small-town Americans who have seen what Walmart has done to our local downtowns and small businesses, and like many who...
OPINION: Bargaining for the Common Good: Teachers unions are fighting for...
By JOSEPH McCARTIN
The week-long strike by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) in January marked the most significant struggle yet in a movement...
OPINION: The ethic, honor and dignity of Labor
By W. B. (BART) TICHENOIR
Little Bonne Femme Baptist Church
Columbia, Mo
Several scripture passages in the Tanakh extoll the worth of work. (The Tanakh is...
OPINION: Massive investment is needed to repair nation’s underfunded infrastructure
By RICHARD TRUMKA
President, AFL-CIO
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee)
The AFL-CIO is America’s Labor...
Opinion: Solutions to Illinois’ teacher shortage
By DAN MONTGOMERY
President, Illinois Federation of Teachers
Recently, we’ve been seeing headlines about a teacher shortage. This inability to fill teaching positions isn’t a new...
Opinion: Join effort to ensure that women are paid fairly
By LISA PICKER
On April 10, thousands of women will join in a national day of action against unfair pay called Equal Pay Day. April is...
Opinion: The right-to-everything
By DARIN GILLEY
Secretary/Treasurer
UAW Local 2250
Free stuff is great. Many of us have an annoying relative that comes to family events, loads up on whatever...
Opinion: If Labor is to survive, we need to bring back...
By KEVIN FITZGERALD
What is unionism?
With the onslaught — and it is nothing less than an extremely aggressive onslaught — of Labor, bargaining rights...