And the Farmworkers Are Still Poor

LaborDecember 5, 2011

A Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (New York: Verso), 742pp, hardcover, $54.95.* Frank Bardacke labored over this book for fifteen years.…

Occupy Wall Street and the U.S. Labor Movement

LaborNovember 15, 2011

The Occupy Wall Street Uprising and the U.S. Labor Movement: An Interview with Steve Early, Jon Flanders, Stephanie Luce, and Jim Straub by Farooque Chowdhury and Michael D. Yates The Occupy Wall Street Uprising has…

Hoffa and Trumka Babble While The House of…

LaborSeptember 17, 2011

The Obama administration and powerful Democrats have been so consistently supportive of the demands of business, especially in finance, that their most liberal adherents have expressed disillusion. For example, some of our top labor leaders,…

A Good Job Is Hard to Find

EconomicsAugust 7, 2011

In 2010, about 139 million people, on average, were employed in the United States.  What kind of work did they do? Here is an interesting table constructed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: These occupations comprise…

BURN, BABY, BURN!

EnvironmentJuly 26, 2011

Every time we visit Pennsylvania, we notice the air pollution. According to a recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Pennsylvania’s air is the second most toxic in the…

Scabbing for the Huffington Post

LaborJuly 15, 2011

I have a Facebook friend who is a prominent liberal activist and writer. He tells us on his website that "My labor experience dates back to working as a staff organizer in Las Vegas for…

The Twin Sisters Hike

TravelJune 28, 2011

We first visited Estes Park, Colorado in June 2004. We stayed  at the Discovery Lodge motel, which offered a pleasant setting at a reasonable price. The town is nestled in a "park" surrounded by the…