Old People Power

Politics Unions Voting

Pearl River      Old people are suddenly news.   Not just because so many old people are holding onto power in one country after another like the US, China, and India, even as younger men and women take charge elsewhere, but because in places like France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the oldies have huge …

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Motions in the Movement

ACORN International Housing Unions

            Sheffield           There was so much going on at the United Kingdom’s ACORN National Conference for 2024 that after listening to the officers’ reports to the elected branch chapters, I snuck out to hear the presentations and audit the workshops with the rank-and-file members and organizers.  Doing so, I would miss hearing the introduction and …

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Diluting the Promise and Threat of the 10j Injunction

NLRB Supreme Court Unions

Oshawa           The Supreme Court somehow got all the votes behind a Clarence Thomas decision pushing back on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ability to request an injunction to remedy egregious unfair labor practices by an employer.  Unfair labor practices in union organizing drives are ubiquitous.  A Harvard professor’s study more than thirty years ago …

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