Washington At Georgetown University Professor Joseph McCartin showed some bite-sized clips from “The Organizer” documentary and followed up with questions he posed, as well as a variety that came from the audience. One former union brother launched a rant that bemoaned the loss of workers’ weapons dating back to the passage of the Taft-Hartley …
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Good News for Mexican Workers on the Other Side of the Wall
New Orleans How about some good news for a change? Yes, I’m with you. I found some in a surprising place on the other side of the proposed wall between Mexico and the Untied States and in all places in Matamoros, right across the river from Brownsville, Texas. If you’ve ever been to Matamoros, you …
Full Employment! Really?
New Orleans In the breathless and world shaking tone common to television and radio broadcasts, economists were trying to parse the numbers in the federal report on jobs and wages for February. Growth was almost nonexistent at 20,000 new hires, and there was a lot of “he-say, she saying” back and forth on that. …