Washington There are few grace notes in the current divisions within the forces of institutional labor, but I happened to experience a small one at Georgetown University in a special ceremony held to honor John Sweeney, retiring President of the AFL-CIO, with an honorary degree. I had been invited by Joe McCartin, an organizer with …
Voter Registration Reform
Takoma Park I have long advocated an automatic registration system as a step forward in democracy in America. A couple of days ago there may have been some movement in this direction from a new bipartisan effort called the Committee to Modernize Voter Registration. According to a squib I saw on this new formation, the …
Stealing from Poor Workers
Baltimore Ruth Milkman of UCLA and Nik Theodore of University of Illinois, Chicago are top researchers and obviously savvy enough to put out their study, Broken Promises, Unprotected Workers, as an exclusive to Steve Greenhouse at the Times to get maximum attention to their summary of surveys from over 4000 workers in 2008 which indicates …