Tag: opinion
OPINION: ‘In union there is strength’
By JAMES MATTIS
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the full text of the statement former Secretary of Defense James Mattis issued regarding...
OPINION: U.S. offshore tax haven corporations still getting pandemic federal loans
By FRANK CLEMENTE
The Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic has been a disaster with over 110,000 Americans dead and two million having contracted the...
OPINION: We can’t let Trump destroy our postal service
By FRANK CLEMENTE
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness
Donald Trump has exploited this pandemic to implement a laundry list of right-wing policies including a new tax...
OPINION: America’s Five Economic Essentials
From the AFL-CIO
America’s workers — in the private and public sectors — have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, for too many...
OPINION: The phony coronavirus class war
By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
A Washington Post article on May 17 described people in a posh suburb of Atlanta celebrating liberation from coronavirus lockdown. “I went...
OPINION: We should help workers, not kill them
By PAUL KRUGMAN
As far as I can tell, most epidemiologists are horrified by America’s rush to reopen the economy, to abandon much of the...
OPINION: Clean Missouri must survive, as is
By JACK DANFORTH
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Turning their backs on Missouri voters yet again, the Republicans last week voted to ‘Dirty Up Missouri Politics’ by voting...
OPINION: Martin Luther King Jr. predicted this moment
The coronavirus shows us clearer than ever before that ‘all labor has dignity.’
By GENE B. SPERLING
Fifty-two years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
OPINION: To understand the danger of COVID-19 outbreaks in meatpacking plants,...
By MICHAEL HAEDICKE
Associate Professor of Sociology
Drake University
Large meatpacking plants have become hotspots for coronavirus infection, along with jails and nursing homes. As of May...
OPINION: Thank a union member for your safe drinking water
By ALLAN J. BATHON
President
Utility Workers Union of America Local 335
May 3-9, was designated Drinking Water Week by the American Water Works Association. The goal...