NASHVILLE, TENN. – Few cities in America want Amazon’s second headquarters and its expected 50,000 jobs more than Nashville. However, the clamor to attract Amazon has reignited a debate over the city’s construction safety crisis, which saw a record-breaking three workers get killed this summer alone.
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As a labor reporter, I have interviewed workers from all walks of life: autoworkers uranium workers, strippers, miners, teachers, mechanics, professional baseball players, roofers, grape workers in Napa, and far too many garbage truck workers.
But out of the hundreds of people I’ve met in my decade on the
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Greetings from da farm in Goshen, Kentucky!
This week’s Payday goes out to non-union reporters at Politico and ESPN, who have faced management interference in their attempts to talk about race. Don’t worry folks, speak your mind on race, plenty of union workers have your back. Solidarity!
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“I’m not too old for this shit” says actor Danny Glover. “I’m not too old for this shit. Far from being too old for this”
At age 73, actor Danny Glover could be seen limping as he helped to lead the historic 5,000-person “March On Mississippi”
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I cried when I first watched my friend Randy Bryce in his now viral TV ad as he remarked: “If someone falls behind, we are so much stronger if we carry them with us.”
In 2015, my decade long career as a labor reporter was torn to shreds. My former
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