Fighting back against rigged laws and leveling the playing field between bosses and American workers starts with finally sending Taft-Hartley to the pearly gates.
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I got the news last month in the same way many of my coworkers did—through a video the bargaining team shared on Facebook. The University of California (UC) had given our team its last, best, and final offer—and it was bad.
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Last week, workers at GE Transportation took to the picket line at the Lawrence Park, PA factory as their employer began what the union is calling a company lockout.
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One sunny Friday in early February, an HR person at the corporate “youth media” behemoth I had been working for since 2014 called me up and unceremoniously informed me I had been terminated.
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On issue after issue across the whole spectrum of progressive public policy, a divide is growing between those who believe the present system can, with the right tweaks, be made to work, and those who see the system as rotten to the core, requiring root-and-branch reformation.
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Andy Stern, former President of Service Employees’ International Union (SEIU)—whose name is still synonymous with unionism by fiat, and who was unceremoniously ejected from the labor movement in 2010—is back in the news with a piece on charters and education reform for The Daily Beast.
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Not everyone is going to go out and organize a union at their workplace. But it’s more possible than people think, and it delivers something that nothing else can: a voice on the job.
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Nik Arnoldi is a fifth year art teacher at Escalante-Biggs Academy. It’s an Early Childhood Center in Denver Public Schools (DPS), just under an eleven mile drive from Denver International Airport. It’s a good school; because of Denver’s “school choice” system, there’s a wait list to get in.
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The fact is that the Trump administration, like the Republicans in 2013, don’t want most of the workers furloughed to go back to work. The chaos they’re creating right now isn’t a byproduct of a deliberate policy choice, it is the deliberate policy choice.
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One thing remains clear, though: there is nothing in this deal that will help any union organize the core of Amazon’s business, of which it’s said that, “being homeless is better than working for Amazon.”
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Talking with your coworkers is hard. Having a weak union — or no union — is much harder. The way we build power is by learning to trust each other, and you build that trust one conversation at a time.
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If Janus v. AFSCME was a round in the fight between labor and capital, Uradnik v. Inter Faculty Organization — if heard by the Court — could be the knockout.
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Rob Walsh, originally from a small town just outside Utica, is a material handler at the Tesla plant just south of Buffalo, New York’s downtown.
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