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LaborOnline OpEd

Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions

New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers. William Jones

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LaborOnline OpEd

When the Home Is a Workplace

In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their.

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Could Regional Reparations Help the Democrats Retake the Rust Belt?

States such as Ohio and Michigan have been hit with blight and economic downturn. Offering reparations to those hardest hit could be the.

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Sleeping Giant: When Public Workers Awake

It was the radical African-American intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois, who famously called the mass disaffection and migration of southern slaves to Union battle.

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Even blue-chip companies fail. Here’s how to save their workers, and towns, when they do The Washington Post

The new year has not been happy for former Sears employees. As the company fights for its life in bankruptcy court, laid-off employees.

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Articles OpEd

What’s up with wages? Nothing, and that’s a problem (not a puzzle)

Increasing inequality is a pressing problem requiring serious research and vigorous debate as we strive for policies that improve people’s opportunities and outcomes..

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Martin J. Bennett, “50 Years Ago: King, Memphis, and the Poor People’s Campaign,” Beyond Chron, May 31, 2018

Most Americans know that a white racist assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4,1968 – fifty years ago. But.

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Eladio Bobadilla, “Creating a humanitarian crisis — while ignoring U.S. history,” Herald Sun, June 18, 2017

In an effort to “send a message” to potential asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America, the Trump administration and the Jeff Sessions-led.

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LAWCHA OpEd

MLK: To the Promised Land

Michael K. Honey is the author of the new study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice,.

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MLK’s ’68 struggle for economic justice still marching on

On Feb. 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death while riding out a cold, driving rainstorm in the back.

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