Americans oppose taking away public employee collective bargaining rights by a margin of two to one, according to a March 1 New York Times/CBS poll. The same poll indicates that a margin of 56 percent to 37 percent of those...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (AP) — In trying to take away nearly all collective bargaining rights from state workers, Wisconsin’s governor may have unintentionally given the American labor movement the lift it needed after years of...
Read MoreJerome Karabel Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley This is a watershed moment for the American labor movement. Drastically weakened by decades of a corporate offensive against workers in the...
Read MoreBrian Beutler | February 17, 2011, 1:47PM Reprinted from TPMDC Wisconsin’s new Republican governor has framed his assault on public worker’s collective bargaining rights as a needed measure of fiscal austerity during...
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