Labour - Unions

Jun. 26, 2022

July 2, 2022

Dispatch from the largest event in the organization’s 43-year history

“The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the working people of America have had enough!”
—Sean O’ Brien, Labor Notes 2022

“Fuck Jeff Bezos!”
—Christian Smalls, Labor Notes 2022

“The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the working people of America have had enough!”
—Sean O’ Brien, Labor Notes 2022

“Fuck Jeff Bezos!”
—Christian Smalls, Labor Notes 2022

Suddenly, it seems, organized labour is cool again. On Twitter, leftists have taken to calling the months ahead #HotLaborSummer. Twitter is a poor barometer of, well, anything, but looking at the last few years, there has been an obvious spike in labour militancy and general interest in unions.

July 1, 2022

July 1, 2022

The 51-year-old agency has been losing both power and credibility over recent decades, and SCOTUS’s recent ruling undermines it even more.

West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency completes a trifecta of long-sought court victories for the right. What New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v Bruen did to gun control and Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization to reproductive rights, West Virginia v EPA has done to climate.  

Jun 22, 2022

Jun 15, 2022

06.18.2022

It’s not rising workers’ wages that are causing spiraling inflation — it’s corporate profiteering.

Anyone observing the political debate about inflation in the UK could be forgiven for thinking that rising prices were being driven by rising wages. Politicians and technocrats from across the political spectrum have taken it upon themselves to chastise workers for demanding wage increases in line with inflation.