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Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2019

How Unions Gave Us Labor Day

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In praise of a movement battered and bruised but not down JFK at Detroit Labor Day Parade, 1960 — Photo: Walter Reuther Library ...
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Monday, September 7, 2015

Labor Day, Brought to You By Unions Everywhere

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This year I joined the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981/AFL-CIO ( NWU ).  I advocate for unions all the time, and this just puts t...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Ye Auld New America: Didn't We Go Down This Road Before?

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  Working for someone else, fingers to the bone with no expectation of decent wages or a foothold on the ladder, is back in vogue here in A...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Labor in America: Those were the Days - (A Repeat)

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Note:  Labor Day weekend is here once again, and let's enjoy it while we can.  I have a feeling, if things keep going this way, anythi...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Puppy Training for Politicians. Or, How we got RTW in Michigan

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So it has happened.  Remember the other day when I wrote that Michigan had become a Right-to-Work state ? It's not that I'm prescien...
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Monday, September 3, 2012

The Problem with Unions? They're not Corporations

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WARNING: It's Labor Day and I'm feeling the love for labor, so what follows will be totally biased and in no way fair or balanced.  ...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

May Day! May Day! A little help here. . .

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Today is May First, or May Day.  It's the day when workers around the world traditionally rally to show solidarity and support for one a...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Labor in America: Those were the Days

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Every year for the past two dozen or so, I've felt less and less like celebrating Labor Day and more and more like forgetting the whole ...
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