Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions
New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers. William Jones
LaborOnline
OpEd
When the Home Is a Workplace
In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their.
- by Eileen Boris
- April 17, 2020
OpEd
Could Regional Reparations Help the Democrats Retake the Rust Belt?
States such as Ohio and Michigan have been hit with blight and economic downturn. Offering reparations to those hardest hit could be the.
- by Leon Fink
- August 23, 2019
OpEd
Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake
It was the radical African-American intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously called the mass disaffection and migration of southern slaves to Union battle.
- by Leon Fink
- February 6, 2019
OpEd
Even blue-chip companies fail. Here’s how to save their workers, and towns, when they do The Washington Post
The new year has not been happy for former Sears employees. As the company fights for its life in bankruptcy court, laid-off employees.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 29, 2019
Articles
OpEd
What’s up with wages? Nothing, and that’s a problem (not a puzzle)
Increasing inequality is a pressing problem requiring serious research and vigorous debate as we strive for policies that improve people’s opportunities and outcomes..
- by Daniel Graff
- September 20, 2018
OpEd
Martin J. Bennett, “50 Years Ago: King, Memphis, and the Poor People’s Campaign,” Beyond Chron, May 31, 2018
Most Americans know that a white racist assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4,1968 – fifty years ago. But.
- by Ryan Poe
- June 25, 2018
OpEd
Eladio Bobadilla, “Creating a humanitarian crisis — while ignoring U.S. history,” Herald Sun, June 18, 2017
In an effort to “send a message” to potential asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America, the Trump administration and the Jeff Sessions-led.
- by Eladio Bobadilla
- June 19, 2018
LAWCHA
OpEd
MLK: To the Promised Land
Michael K. Honey is the author of the new study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice,.
- by Michael Honey
- March 20, 2018
OpEd
MLK’s ’68 struggle for economic justice still marching on
On Feb. 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death while riding out a cold, driving rainstorm in the back.
- by Michael Honey
- March 20, 2018