- Kamala Harris and Labor Unions Need Each Other https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-30/kamala-harris-needs-unions-to-help-her-beat-trump-in-swing-states 6 comments politics
- Former Wall Street Analyst Henry Blodget: Why We Need Labor Unions After All http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/why-labor-unions-172114831.html 4 comments politics
- New House labor committee chair questions need for unions http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-unions-iduskbn13u2ne 25 comments politics
- It's time we admitted it: To save this country, we need labor unions http://www.businessinsider.com/why-its-time-for-labor-to-organize-2015-6 19 comments economy
- Well, It May Be Time To Face The Fact That We Need Labor Unions... http://www.businessinsider.com/well-it-may-be-time-to-face-the-fact-that-we-need-labor-unions-2012-6 229 comments politics
- Biden Needs Unions to Force His Hand | To enact an FDR-scale agenda, the president needs the energy of his party’s pro-labor wing. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/why-biden-needs-labor-unions-force-his-hand/618191/ 54 comments politics
- Sen Sanders says 'we need strong pro-labor legislation' after Amazon defeated the union effort in AL https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/sen-sanders-says-we-need-strong-pro-labor-legislation-after-amazon-defeated-the-union-effort-in-al-109984325755 127 comments politics
- Labor Union Membership Has Just Hit an All-Time Low. We Need to Reverse This Trend. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/labor-union-membership-density-bls-2019 60 comments politics
- Today’s worker must not buy into the hype that our economy has outgrown the need for labor and unions. Never has there been disparity on the scales we are now witnessing. http://agonist.org/forgiven/20080102/shrinking_middle_class_shrinking_labor 9 comments politics
- This Should Be American Workers’ Future, Say House Republicans. Unions? Who Needs Them? Group Paints a Labor Vision That’s Right Out of the 19th Century Robber Barons Era. https://www.dcreport.org/2020/09/24/this-should-be-the-american-workers-future-say-house-republicans/ 24 comments politics
- Scott Walker and the Fate of the Union "It didn’t matter if everyone knew that Walker had broken a promise to a union leader, because now it was clear, at least in Wisconsin, that Walker no longer needed labor" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/magazine/scott-walker-and-the-fate-of-the-union.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0 3 comments politics
- Abolish ICE’s Union: The labor movement needs to take a stronger stand against agents of Trump's barbarous immigration policies. https://newrepublic.com/article/154915/abolish-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement-union 24 comments politics
- Republican bill in TN would allow corporations to give unlimited funds directly to political candidates - "I've always felt that corporations need to be on an even playing field with labor unions," Ramsey said. " http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110306/news02/103060385/tn-republicans-want-allow-direct-corporate-donations?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7Cfrontpage 73 comments politics
- Bernie’s Revolution Needs the Labor Movement to Win - So far in the Democratic primary, unions have been riding the fence. But they could play the decisive factor in Bernie Sanders’s efforts to defeat the Democratic Party establishment, oust Donald Trump, and win transformative social change. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/12/bernie-sanders-labor-movement-2020-presidential-campaign 121 comments politics
- Sanders Wins Support from South Carolina AFL-CIO Labor: "'We call on the AFL-CIO, union members and working people everywhere to unite behind Bernie Sanders and elect the president America’s workers desperately need,' the resolution said." https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-wins-south-carolina-labor-backing/?source=reddit&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=reddit06132015 388 comments politics
- New Census Data Highlight Why the Middle Class Needs Strong Unions - "Our economy depends on a prosperous middle class, and that middle class needs the support of a strong labor movement." https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/labor/news/2015/09/18/121549/new-census-data-highlight-why-the-middle-class-needs-strong-unions/ 3 comments politics
- Google and AT&T are marshaling political allies, lobbyists and labor unions for a fight over proposed "net neutrality" rules that could affect tens of billions of dollars in investments needed to upgrade the U.S. broadband network. http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052748704224004574489323364051390.html?mod=wsj_hpp_sections_tech 3 comments reddit.com
- Official French Union of Corporate Executives : The poor migrants are suffering so much. We must help them. There is a labor shortage. We can't find enough workers. We need to welcome migrants to boost the economy. Open the borders. http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/09/08/les-migrants-sont-un-atout-pour-la-france_4749301_3232.html 13 comments economy
- Here Is One Graph Everyone Should See on Labor Day — On this Labor Day, remind everyone you can that if we hope to ever rebuild an economy that works for everyone, we’re going to need many more workers in unions and a much stronger labor movement. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/here-is-one-graph-everyone-should-see-on-labor-day-sirota 3 comments politics
- Unless something dramatic changes, Americans are on the verge of living in a nation where the right to organize and to belong to a labor union no longer exists. The country will need to decide, sooner rather than later, if those rights are worth preserving. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2014/06/supreme_court_harris_decision_if_you_care_about_income_inequality_you_should.html 351 comments politics
- Martin Luther King Was a Radical, Not a Saint | He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power." He challenged America's class system and its racial caste system. He was a strong ally of the nation's labor union movement. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/21-2 12 comments politics