I know it’s probably cheating, but here’s something that I posted more than half a decade ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it’s even more appropriate today, seeing as how Michigan has since become a so-called “right to work” state, and we now how have an unquestionably anti-worker administration running […]
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A big “thank you” to all those who died in the Chicago rail yards so that we might have the day off to grill hot dogs… Happy Labor Day
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, History, Michigan, Other Also tagged Alexander Acosta, American Railway Union, Capitalism, Chicago, company towns, Eugene Debs, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Ivanka Trump, John Peter Altgeld, labor, Labor Day, labor history, living wage, Marvin Kaplan, National Guard, Patrick Pizzella, Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, right-to-work, Samuel Alito, strikebreakers, strikes, sympathy strikes, unions, William Emanuel 7 Comments
Michigan’s first for-profit charter school goes union in Detroit… Will others follow?
A few days ago, something positive happened on the Michigan education landscape. The teachers of the Cesar Chavez Academy, a charter school in southwest Detroit, voted to unionize. What follows is my admittedly too short interview with Daniel Kukuk, one of the American Federation of Teachers organizers who helped make it happen. MARK: So, what […]
Posted in Detroit, Education, Michigan Also tagged American Federation of Teachers, Arts Academy in the Woods, Cesar Chavez Academy, charter schools, Daniel Kukuk, Detroit, Education Achievement Authority, education reform, for-profit charter schools, Fraser, Michigan Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, right-to-work, Southwest Detroit, teachers unions, The Leona Group, union organizing, unions 13 Comments