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I am a member of a large (1.4 million-member) national union, the American Federation of Teachers, that offers high-interest credit cards, average-price auto insurance, long-term care insurance, and low-priced periodical subscriptions. It also spends a portion of my dues to support Democratic congr…

The conclusion one might draw from the dismal record of the last thirty years of union concessions is that collective bargaining, once an effective, although two-edged, weapon in labor’s struggle, has reached a watershed. Today, collective bargaining in production, service, and public sectors is mo…

The conclusion one might draw from the dismal record of the last thirty years of union concessions is that collective bargaining, once an effective, although two-edged, weapon in labor’s struggle, has reached a watershed. Today, collective bargaining in production, service, and public sectors is mo…

Why did GM, U.S. Steel, GE, and other large, oligopolistic corporations agree to unionization? Part of the answer, at least for GM and the four major rubber corporations, was the factory occupations in Flint, Detroit, Cleveland, and Akron: they preferred peaceful organization to such baptisms of fi…

[...] Since the Depression of 2007, they have all discovered that the economy no longer has room for most of them. But their alienation is more than economic. Joblessness and declining material prospects may be solved within a political system willing to accommodate at least some of the disaffected…