by Justin | Jan 28, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Labor Notes, Opinion
“Collective bargaining agreements give workers some control over their work lives. Still, it is kind of astonishing how little control most workers have over the place they spend so much time—and how little we demand actual democracy at work.I’m often asked in...
by Justin | Jan 24, 2021 | Administration Caucus, Gregg Shotwell, Opinion, UAW Corruption Scandal
I am writing this in January 2021 for a new generation of auto workers who don’t knowthe history they are piggy-backing. Who don’t know who hogtied them into thiscorkscrew position. It’s all becoming more clear as the federales crack down. But thenews isn’t new....
by Justin | Jan 20, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Department of Labor, NLRB, Opinion, President Joseph Biden
While Joe Biden has a much longer track record of supporting labor unions than Trump — a low bar to clear — his support has often been superficial at best. Biden never met a trade deal that he didn’t love, even when they would gut working class communities...
by Justin | Jan 15, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB, Opinion, President Joseph Biden
If Biden is serious about making his first hundred days among the most consequential since the beginning of the New Deal, trade unionists should make their expectations known and hold him accountable to them. It isn’t enough to say you’re a “union guy.” Delivering for...
by Justin | Dec 1, 2020 | Administration Caucus, AFL-CIO, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Opinion, Organizing
At the end of the day, a union is just a voluntary organization of workers. Workers made the union and only workers can “unmake” the union. In every other facet of our lives: church, school, work… there is always a pastor, a teacher, a boss… someone to run the show....
by Justin | Nov 12, 2020 | NLRB, Opinion
From everything I have described, the NLRB appears to be an emasculated husk of an archaic institution. The agency is underfunded, understaffed, underpowered, and prone to congressional influence when it dares raise its head out of its foxhole. Most damningly, the...
