The Labor Movement is a Mess... and What We Can Do About It
Marc KaganMarc Kagan, long-time union activist and author of the forthcoming Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of NYC's Transport Workers Union, 1975-2009, writes about contemporary and historical labor issues.
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Two Articles Worth Reading
I’m writing this Sunday evening. I worked all day revising an article on labor unions and DSA politicians, and ran out of time to write about some of the issues on my mind – a public blow-up within TWU Local 100, the Office of Worker Power,...
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Election Rigging
From Chris Hedges, The Next Election May be Our Last, is the best short summary I’ve seen of all the ways Trump is trying to subvert and rig the November election. Hedges, in turn, links to a more extensive elaboratio...
The Politics of the U.S. Labor Movement
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This week marks the beginning of my Brooklyn College course...
Is “Sectoral Bargaining” a Partial Answer to Labor’s Problems?
If you work in the metal or electronics industries in Germany, you are likely to be represented by a union, and if you are, it is likely that your contract was negotiated not with the specific company you work for, but with an employer asso...
Across the Nation, Union Endorsements Largely Favored Democratic Centrists Over Left or Left-Leaning Candidates
I’m writing an article for a labor journal on “the labor movement and the intra-coalition struggle in the Democratic Party.” That’s months away from publication, but here’s some still not quite complete data on union endorsements in various...
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Former transit worker, TWU Local 100 staff, high school Social Studies teacher, now a CUNY Adjunct teaching labor history and labor politics. Substack at marckagan.substack.com
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