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Justices Deliver Latest Blow to Labor in Wisconsin
Yesterday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in a 5-2 decision that the much-reviled Act 10 does not violate the constitution. This law strips most public sector employees of their collective bargaining rights by “limit[ing] bargaining rights to issues only involving base wages, ban[ning] some government employers from automatically taking union fees from employee paychecks, and…
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NLRB Rules McDonalds Jointly Liable for Franchisees
What’s the relationship between corporations and their franchisees? That’s the question at hand in the latest ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In a decision first reported by the Associated Press on Tuesday, General Counsel for the NLRB ruled that McDonald’s is jointly responsible for the actions of its franchise restaurants — creating…
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Pushing Through Doors: Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”
By Zenzile Greene On the heels of the Spike Lee Retrospective being shown at BAM Cinematek through July 11th, I would like to present a piece I wrote up on assignment for my “Culture Through Film” class taken this past fall at the School of Professional studies. The course, taught by Professor Kelley Kawano, was…
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Gods Are Not The Kind Of Machines That Last
By Greg McDonald I wrote a psalm for Jesus while I was sleeping. It turns out differences are settled with cross words in the new world, that rules are measured in miles like horses, then discarded, that night is the breaking of bread, the welter of birds it affords, the cove where Christ gorges on…
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