Hold Fast

No nation has ever been home to a middle-class majority absent a sizable labor movement. In their failure to advance labor’s prospects, the Democrats condemn themselves to a future of fewer Democratic voters and their nation to a future of mass downward mobility.
Harold Meyerson is right - it’s about damned time Democrats were responsive to […]

[Read more →]

This is only tangentially related to labor policy, but Mike Rowe’s talk about work and working at TED is really powerful. Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, challenges many of our common assumptions about work in American life. Rowe has more about his take on work at MikeRoweWorks.com.

[Read more →]

Paul Begala has an incredibly powerful and persuasive op-ed in Politico today making the case for the Employee Free Choice Act. After introducing nightmare hypothetical scenarios of workers getting fired for trying to organize, Begala pulls back the curtain and reveals the stories are about real workers who were fighting for better jobs.
All of these […]

[Read more →]

PA2010.com reports:
In a rhetorical flourish sure to peeve his political opponents, Senator Arlen Specter says his views on the Employee Free Choice Act have been “consistent, and suggestions to the contrary by those intending to run against me are incorrect.”
Specter made the assertion in a letter to the editor published in Wednesday’s Inquirer. He was […]

[Read more →]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJxngc68bv0

[Read more →]

A great piece by a single mom and Army veteran in support of the Employee Free Choice Act is running today in the Anchorage Daily News.

[Read more →]

In Maine’s Bangor Daily News, Mike Allen, an Air Force veteran and union letter carrier, writes in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act. In the course of an incredibly powerful telling of his father’s history and his history as union members and the benefits they received by being part of the union, Allen puts […]

[Read more →]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnEs69jUdKg

I guess today is Employee Free Choice video day…

[Read more →]

Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post explains the importance of first contract arbitration in the Employee Free Choice Act. First contract arbitration is the second main plank of Employee Free Choice.
But the kind of democratic choice that business favors is choice without consequence — a position made clear by its opposition to the other key […]

[Read more →]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ext8qTxVCTE

The AFL-CIO has this great video from actors and artists speaking out for the Employee Free Choice Act.

[Read more →]