Washington Post’s Road to Anti-Union Perdition
The Washington Post has never been an especially labor-friendly organization. I first learned this in 1977 when potential future housemates…
A BIG Thank You to Workers Who Keep America Running on Labor Day
Ah…. Today is Labor Day. A holiday weekend for many if not most of us. As millions of Americans sleep…
Immigration Enforcement Undermines Worker Health and Safety
The increasingly militarized harassment of immigrants upending our communities across the country has been well understood. Less recognized is how…
As Election Nears, Teamsters Still Refuse to Endorse Harris
For the first time in three decades, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that it would not endorse a presidential…
Union Demands that OSHA Revoke Failing South Carolina OSHA Program
OSHA State Plan states — you can’t live with ’em, you can’t live without ’em. Or can you? A labor…
Can Good Journalism Save Workers’ Lives?
Unions are struggling. Workers are intimidated. Congress is comatose. The courts are rigged. OSHA is too small and drastically underfunded.…
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Workplace Safety and Health
Workplace Violence Back on Congressional Agenda Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) re-introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation that…
Rail Strike: Which Side Are You On?
When last we discussed employer greed labor problems in the rail industry, President Joe “the most labor-friendly President in American…
Lessons of the Averted Rail Strike
And we have an agreement…. I was over at the Department of Labor building yesterday and there were paper signs…
Crippling Rail Strike Looms as Rail Companies Refuse to Address Workers’ Concerns
Rail companies' sceduling policies force railworkers to strike.