The People’s Guide To Power: The Power Of Labor: How Labor Movements Are Involved In Our Political System

• October 24, 2022
• Posted in Class Struggle, Elections, Interviews, Labor Movement, Strikes, Unions

WNYC/Gothamist senior political reporter Brigid Bergin hosts a conversation about how organized labor fits into our political landscape. Organized Labor And The Working Families Party Labor unions represent workers in conversations with their employers. Can a political party represent workers in our government? Sochie Nnaemeka, director of the New York Working Families Party, talks about some of the policies and politics behind the party’s agenda. Read More

Biden Needs to Talk About Jobs on Labor Day. And Every Day.: If he does, he just might win in November.

• September 4, 2020
• Posted in Election 2020, Labor Movement, Published work, The Nation, Unions

Instead of allowing a deliberate undermining of 21st century essential public services, Biden could stitch together race, gender, jobs, unions, and good government in one powerful speech. For example, he could explain that at union-busting FedEx, workers earn half what their counterparts do at the post office for service that is no better and often worse for higher charges—and that the difference is who gets the income: workers or shareholders? Read More

We Really Need to Tax the Rich: In California, they’re making it happen.

• June 3, 2020
• Posted in Election 2020, Strikes, The Nation, Unions

Rather than rely on presidential candidates as our saviors or endlessly revise utopian policy proposals, it is crucial that we examine which strategies, led by whom, are winning and why. Read More

It’s About F*cking Winning: Featuring Jane McAlevey

• April 9, 2020
• Posted in Election 2020, Interviews, Labor Movement, Organizing, Strikes, Unions

  “Jane McAlevey is a lifetime agitator and shitkicker. So why haven’t you seen her on TV? Why don’t we ever see any of our brightest thinkers and doers in the mainstream media? This is one of reasons I started RUMBLE — to bring brilliant voices like hers to you. Jane and I discuss how we can start creating 2021 now — the world we want to live in, the things we want to change. Read More

Green New Deals: Climate Movements and Labour Unions: Jane McAlevey on the 2020 election being the first presidential race with climate at its center

• April 4, 2020
• Posted in Climate Change, Interviews, Labor Movement, Organizing, Strikes, Unions

Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good construction and fossil fuel industry jobs has helped prevent moderate Democratic candidates, including frontrunner Joe Biden, from taking policy positions that would aggressively confront the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis. Whoever opposes Donald Trump in the general election will face a politics of climate denial built on an empty but alluring promise of job security in the oil, gas, and coal industries. Read More