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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…
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Another go-round on Unions as Consciousness Builders – Part 2: Hello & Goodbye with Far too little In Between
By Nick Unger Why would one expect American unions to foster a broad insurgent culture? The legal framework, political and organizational for today’s unions goes back almost 80 years. It has always encouraged a culture of accommodation with the needs of production, output and efficiency and discouraged a broad insurgent culture of conflict, turmoil and…
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Bad Week for Workers at the Supreme Court
By Penny Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at the Murphy Institute. It’s been a bad week for workers and unions at the US Supreme Court (not to mention women and families in general). Last week, in NLRB v. Noel Canning, the Court affirmed the lower court decision that three appointments to the labor…
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Harris v. Quinn: Separate, and not equal
Jane McAlevey is working on her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center. This article was originally posted on Waging Nonviolence It’d be more than alarming and resoundingly condemned if any institution in the United States tried to take our country back to the days before Dred Scott, or to when people of color in this…
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