Tag: opinion
OPINION: The strike wave shows the tight Labor market is ready...
By JONAH FURMAN and GABRIEL WINANT
Shortly before midnight on Oct. 13, production workers at a John Deere facility in Waterloo, Iowa, started shutting down...
OPINION: Union popularity is at an all-time high — so what...
We must prioritize organizing; leadership is the key
By DAVID COOK
President
United Food & Commercial Workers Local 655
There was a rare moment of good news (last)...
OPINION: A century after the Battle of Blair Mountain, protecting workers’...
By DAVE KEMPER
One hundred years ago last week, in the late summer of 1921, at least 7,000 West Virginia coal miners affiliated with the...
OPINION: $15 hourly wage isn’t livable anywhere in the U.S.
Despite making more than double the federal minimum wage, families relying on $15 an hour wouldn’t make enough to cover necessities such as food,...
OPINION: Our billionaires are blasting off. Good riddance!
By SAM PIZZIGATI
Editor, Too Much
Could space become the “final frontier” in the struggle for a more equal world? Three of the richest billionaires...
OPINION: Biden backs a just transition for the climate crisis; advocates...
By RACHEL M. COHEN
One of the most difficult problems that political leaders have faced in addressing climate change has not involved the science or...
OPINION: Regaining ground for working families in Missouri’s bellwether
By BOB BUTLER
In 1996, when my wife Miriam and I moved our family to Jefferson County, it was a hardworking, blue-collar community that voted...
OPINION: Americans’ work conditions are terrible. No wonder many don’t want...
By HELAINE OLEN
Norma Leiva, a warehouse manager with Food 4 Less in Panorama City, Calif., joined a protest last week in front of the...
OPINION: When workers unionized, their cafe was put up for ...
By HARRY AUGUST
Providence, R.I. — Five former White Electric Coffee workers gathered at the Dexter Training Grounds next to the Providence Armory, slightly stunned....
OPINION: Green future needs to be built with union jobs and...
BY JAMES T. CALLAHAN
General President
International Union of Operating Engineers
While the future of clean energy jobs is a hot topic of debate these days, the...