HeyJaredThe Labor Movement is a Mess... and What We Can Do About It
Marc Kagan, long-time union activist and author of the forthcoming Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of NYC's Transport Workers Union, 1975-2009, writes about contemporary and historical labor issues.
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On Contracts… and Grievances. Part 1: Their Value and Limitations (opens the original)
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The DC37 rank-and-file contract campaign is hosting a reading group (co-sponsored by MORE) on the history of city employee unions in New York! The first session is Sunday October 4th, 2-4 PM at the LGBT Center in Greenwich Village.The broad goal for the series is to develop a historical understanding for why no major NYC public sector union has gone on strike in decades, and why union officials actively discourage workplace action, instead relying on top-down relationships with the politicians w
Two Articles Worth Reading (opens the original)
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I’m writing this Sunday evening. I worked all day revising an article on labor unions and DSA politicians, and ran out of time to write about some of the issues on my mind – a public blow-up within TWU Local 100, the Office of Worker Power, some UFT issues. So let me just point to two articles I thought were very interesting.I like Peter Beinart a lot. I’m actually unsure whether he would consider himself an anti-Zionist. But he occupies an interesting position: as a highly religious Jew who cal
Elections… Mamdani… DC37… Nurses’ Strike… Providence… Gaza (opens the original)
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Election RiggingFrom Chris Hedges, The Next Election May be Our Last, is the best short summary I’ve seen of all the ways Trump is trying to subvert and rig the November election. Hedges, in turn, links to a more extensive elaboration in the Washington Spectator of the mechanisms Trump may invoke, not just before and on Elect
The Politics of the U.S. Labor Movement (opens the original)
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Tip: Because of the length, if the newsletter is truncated in an email, readers can click on "View entire message," and they'll be able to view the entire post in their email app.This week marks the beginning of my Brooklyn College course by the same name. Here is the syllabus for the course, with all readings linked. Course Description:Maybe you’re represented by a labor union, or will be some day. Even if you’re not, here are two good reasons to care about the state of the labor movement:<figu
Is “Sectoral Bargaining” a Partial Answer to Labor’s Problems? (opens the original)
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If you work in the metal or electronics industries in Germany, you are likely to be represented by a union, and if you are, it is likely that your contract was negotiated not with the specific company you work for, but with an employer association. This is known as a “sectoral bargaining agreement” (SBA) and it would cover all the workers whose employers had decided to be part of that association. Moreover, the German Labor Ministry can extend an SBA to cover all firms in the industry, “if suppo
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