In an early March Nation Magazine Podcast, John Weiner interviews me about the Janus case. The discussion covers Janus, and, a wide range of topics relating to the labor movement. Listen to the interview here » Read More
Sarah Jaffe and I sat down in late March to reflect on the West Virginia education strike, the Parkland student Protests, the Janus supreme court case, and why I believe mission driven workers, mostly female, hold the key to rebuilding the US labor movement. Read and listen to the interview here » Read More
David Camfield, Professor of Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba, interviewed me before a live book store audience. David, himself author of several books, including Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers’ Movement, did a masterful job in selecting questions that teased out core concepts in No Shortcuts. The audience jumps in about half way through this open ended conversation. Read More
Some of NYC’s biggest restaurant owners have been forced out over sexual harassment chargers. Journalist Liza Featherstone interviewed me about the implications of the upcoming SCOTUS case, Murphy Oil vs NLRB. The case is a huge threat to some very good organizing by the Restaurant Opportunity Center (ROC) and other worker centers. Read More
Doug Henwood and I discuss power and strategy, and Liza Featherstone and I discuss the sexual harassment crisis. We have to get beyond naming and shaming and move to restoring women’s ability to form unions, it’s by having a union that working class women will have the structural power to challenge sexual harassment at work. Read More