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Jim Berger, “This is the media’s real bias — pro-business, pro-corporate, pro-CEO,” Slate (October 30, 2015)

There are cable stations which devote nearly all their programming to aspects of [the workings of capital]. NPR, of course, has “Marketplace” in.

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Mark Brenner, “Dockworkers deserve plaudits: Opposing view,” USA Today (February 19, 2015)

Dockworkers up and down the West Coast are practically drowning in crocodile tears. Newfound concern for workers across the economy has everyone from.

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Labor History OpEd

Jim Gregory, “Seattle’s Left Coast Formula,” Dissent (Winter, 2015)

Contemporary Seattle is a city with a dual personality. On one hand, a dramatic building boom is underway. Towering cranes crowd the skyline.

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LAWCHA Member Jarod Roll Featured in BBC Article, “Can a union victory happen in the South?,” February 12, 2015

After the United Automobile Workers’ (UAW) union failed in its effort to unionise a Volkswagen (VW) plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the New York.

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James Green, “West Virginia Coal Mine Owners Have Blood on Their Hands”, The Daily Beast, February 5, 2015

The bloody history of mine workers in West Virginia is truly as dark as any dungeon, but the recent indictment of a mine.

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Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “History Shows How 2 Million Workers Lost Rights,” Time

Over the last year, the nation has seen a tumultuous wave of low-wage workers contesting terms of employment that perpetually leave them impoverished.

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John McNay, “People’s Veto of a Union-Busting Law Holds Lessons,” Portside

The people’s veto of SB 5 was a triumph of organization, and of labor’s ability to tell its story to ordinary people. I.

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OpEd Teaching Blog

John McNay, “Attack on public school teachers seems like sour grapes”

In the United States, right-wing politicians have diligently worked to defund public education. Republicans have often done this in two major ways. They.

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John McNay, “Senate Bill 5 remains an emblem of Kasich’s extreme agenda”

As Ohio voters consider whether to give John Kasich another four years as governor this November, they might want to revisit his first.

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John T. McNay, “12 moments in Cincy labor history”

The Cincinnati labor community is nearly as old as the city itself and very much a part of the fabric that makes up.

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