Pearl River Remember the pandemic? Remember when there were “essential” workers and everyone pretended to care about them? Right, that was so 2020, wasn’t it? Talking to Middlebury College sociologist and former labor organizer Jamie McCallum on Wade’s World about his recent book, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice, he …
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Labor Power Against the Odds
Marble Falls A federal judge has granted a nationwide 10j injunction against Starbucks banning them from firing any workers involved in organizing a union or any form of concerted, collective activity. Additionally, the judge ordered the reinstatement of the barista named in the specific charge brought forward in the request for the injunction by …
Making Music from the Reconstruction Era
New Orleans – I’ve known Gene Bruskin for forty years or so. We date back to when he was loaned to Local 100 by the AFL-CIO from some training or development program employing him at the time to help us with a series of elections for parking lot workers in New Orleans. Over the decades …