Category Archives: Faculty Writing
Votes, Banks, and Rock and Roll
By Joshua Freeman Two organizations that come from different eras and different universes have joined forces to register voters and promote political involvement among New Yorkers. On Monday, the Amalgamated Bank and Rock the Vote announced a partnership to register voters for the November election. The bank will distribute voter registration forms … Continue Reading ››
Teachout’s Teach Out
By Joshua Freeman This election season has seen an unusually open battle regarding political strategy among New York unionists and progressives. At stake is a crucial issue: how to balance the demands of building a movement that can fundamentally change a political and economic system that fails to serve most Americans against the existing political arrangements that benefit particular groups … Continue Reading ››
The Labor Question
By Joshua Freeman In a Labor Day op-ed article in the NY Daily News, I argued that even as unions have suffered a series of setbacks and continue to slip in the percentage of workers they represent, labor issues are more prominent now than at any time in the recent past. What … Continue Reading ››
Is Harris v. Quinn a Threat to Labor Peace?
Joshua Freeman is a professor of Labor History at The Murphy Institute. This article was originally published in The Nation. The five-to-four Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn is a blow to organized labor, a movement that in recent decades has suffered one blow after another, with victories few and far between. But it … Continue Reading ››
