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This Labor Day We’re Inspired, But It Shouldn’t Be This Difficult

Sep 5, 2022 Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block

For those of us who support unions, we have an unfamiliar feeling this Labor Day. It’s a feeling of hope and celebration. This is unfamiliar territory because union organizing has been in a free fall for decades now. But we can smile this Labor Day because American workers have delivered a lot to celebrate and, […]

September 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Happy Labor Day! For more on the origins of this federal holiday celebrating workers, see Kevin’s weekend post, which provides a helpful backgrounder. There’s much reason for optimism this Labor Day. Union momentum and public support for unions are surging — a historic trend largely driven by young workers across the country. In short, Rani Molla […]

September 4, 2022
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

Happy Labor Day Weekend! This weekend, millions of Americans will fire up the grill or head to the beach to celebrate Labor Day, though few seem to remember the origins—or purpose—of the federal holiday, which is designated to honor the achievements of organized labor in the United States. In 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a […]

September 6, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

Today is Labor Day in the United States. And, as on every Labor Day, it is worth pausing to note the oddity—and the irony—of the United States celebrating the holiday on the first Monday in September, rather than the first day of May. The notion of a holiday to celebrate labor came about in the […]

September 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

This weekend, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families will lose federal unemployment benefits entirely, and more than 2 million more will have their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week, as two key federal unemployment programs expire. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which provided unemployment benefits to many workers not included under traditional unemployment […]

September 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Randon wrote yesterday about a graduate student worker strike at the University of Kansas and now another student worker strike has begun at another major public university that is holding in-person instruction during the pandemic, and the union is explicitly tying anti-police demands to its labor struggle. Today, graduate student workers at the University of […]

September 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Jacob Denz

This Labor Day weekend, the state of work in America is at a dramatic crossroads. While professional-class employees work from home at unprecedented rates, the service sectors in urban areas where their erstwhile offices are concentrated have seen job losses by the millions—and those jobs won’t all come back after the pandemic ends, The New […]

September 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

The observance of Labor Day earlier this week has inspired a bumper crop of commentary on the history, present, and future of the American worker. In the New York Times, Noam Scheiber examines the relationship between established unions and grassroots labor activists. In recent years, says Scheiber, independent activists have invigorated workers in industries and […]

September 3, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, Mark Joseph Stern reported in Slate about Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson’s plan to alter the process by which the state deducts union member dues from public employees’ paychecks. The plan was released last Tuesday in the form of a legal opinion on whether additional changes to the state’s payroll deduction system are needed […]

September 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Happy Labor Day! Rebecca Burns writes in Truthout about why workers should celebrate this Labor Day. Burns points to the continued success of teachers strikes; successful private-sector strikes in a diverse range of industries; increased labor support for a Green New Deal; and potential gains through the 2020 elections as some of the reasons to […]

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