Eileen Boris, “The Decades of History Behind Arguments Made by President Trump’s Labor Secretary Pick,” Time, February 7, 2017
The Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. CEO is sure to be grilled by the Senate on his past statements about the rejection of higher.
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
OpEd
Michael McCown, “How Community-College Faculty Organized a Strike and Scored a Contract,” Portside (September 7, 2016)
For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San Francisco recently went.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- September 25, 2016
OpEd
Martin J. Bennet, “California’s $15 Minimum Wage Earthquake!” BeyondChron (August 16, 2016)
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed legislation boosting California’s minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour — a 50 percent increase that made.
- by Mark Lause
- September 10, 2016
Labor History
OpEd
James N. Gregory, “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders,” The Conversation (August 2, 2016)
As we watch Bernie Sanders’ supporters struggling to come to terms with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, it makes sense to ask why.
- by Ryan Poe
- August 4, 2016
OpEd
Leon Fink, “On Trade, Our Choices Aren’t Only Xenophobic Nationalism Or Neoliberal Globalization,”In These Times (August 2, 2016)
Few issues are receiving a more insipid—and thus more harmful—treatment in our public discourse than world trade. Along with immigration, “free trade” is.
- by Ryan Poe
- August 4, 2016
OpEd
William P. Jones, “Ray Cross’ misunderstanding of history undercuts his position,” The Journal Sentinel (May 11, 2016)
In a recently publicized private memo, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross compared tenured faculty “who are no longer needed in a.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 12, 2016
Activism
OpEd
Gregory N. Heires, “The Union Advantage for Contingent Faculty.” Portside (April 28, 2016)
A new report says faculty and graduate students at 70 colleges have voted to unionize in the past three years. There are close.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 3, 2016
OpEd
Lane Windham, “Let Penn State grad students decide if they want to form a union: The administration and faculty members should stay neutral.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 26, 2016)
A directive on how to fight graduate employees’ unionization efforts was the last thing I expected Penn State University’s Graduate School to plop.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 3, 2016
OpEd
“In Minnesota, public-sector workers building power from the inside out.” The Union Advocate (February 19, 2016)
They may no longer be on the brink of a Supreme Court-imposed Right-to-Work rule, but Minnesota’s public-sector union members aren’t celebrating. They’re organizing..
- by Ryan Poe
- March 2, 2016
OpEd
Daniel Katz, “The Key to Bernie Sanders’s Appeal Isn’t Socialism. It’s Yiddish Socialism.” Forward (February 14, 2016)
In New York and elsewhere, Yiddish Socialists in the early 20th century founded and invigorated fraternal societies, newspapers, schools, athletic leagues, summer camps,.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 21, 2016