by Justin | Jan 27, 2022 | Labor Notes
Study after study has shown that longer work hours lead to shorter lives and higher risk of heart disease. Longer hours also lead to narrower lives—with less time for family, play, and what you will. Over decades of fighting, unions won the eight-hour day. And over...
by Justin | Jan 20, 2022 | Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes, Mike Parker
Mike Parker, the author of four Labor Notes books and a close supporter and key strategist throughout our 43-year history, died January 15 of pancreatic cancer. He will be hugely missed—remembered as a brilliant thinker, a humble and dedicated movement-builder, and a...
by Justin | Jan 20, 2022 | Labor Notes, Mike Parker
Parker’s book– Inside the Circle — acknowledged that employer invitations to “participate” were often quite well received, initially, because they appealed to “workers’ best instincts—to do a good job, to be part of a group, to make a contribution.”...
by Justin | Dec 21, 2021 | Columbia University, Graduate Workers, Jonah Furman, Labor Notes
UAW 2110 remains on the largest strike in the country, at Columbia University. The university is still actively threatening to replace the student workers, and soliciting other desperate academic workers to take their jobs in the spring. Read the article...
by Justin | Dec 18, 2021 | Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes, UAWD in the News
For the first time in 25 years, a slate backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) won in a November landslide to lead the country’s largest private sector union. Teamsters United coalition leaders have pledged to organize militant contract campaigns, end...
by Justin | Dec 17, 2021 | Labor Notes, UAWD in the News
On November 20, 210 union members and allies showed up for a Troublemakers School in Detroit, eager to learn how to build power in their workplaces. On December 11 similar numbers did the same in Philadelphia. In Detroit workers heard from special education teacher...
