Union Buster Tracker Aims to Help Union Organizing
HELENA, MONTANA – In his home office a few miles from Montana’s State Capitol in Helena, LaborLab Co-Founder Bob Funk checks Department of Labor filings…
HELENA, MONTANA – In his home office a few miles from Montana’s State Capitol in Helena, LaborLab Co-Founder Bob Funk checks Department of Labor filings…
Folks, While out reporting on union busting in Yellowstone, I went on the RJ Eskow of the Zero Hour podcast to talk about my travels…
Update: Cornell’s Labor Action Tracker listed 370 strikes in 2021, but in a press release the group claims that they tracked 260 strikes Today the…
In mid-December, I came down with a terrible case of COVID like many workers in this country. Since then, I have developed long COVID, which…
PITTSBURGH, PA. – Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary when legendary labor folk singer Anne Feeney died from COVID-19 at the age of 69. I often…
In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed while visiting Memphis, Tennessee to march with the striking sanitation workers there. Fifty-four years later, we are…
Late last fall, “Sorry to Bother You” director Boots Riley and I sat for a wide-ranging discussion. We discussed the strike wave, the failure of…
Rough news, I tested positive for COVID and am actually quite ill. Given previous pneumonia and lung issues, I am quite worried about this getting…
ERIE, PA – As Christmas music blared over VFW Local 470’s loudspeaker, members of Ironworkers Local 851 hugged and high-fived. Family members nearby ate holiday…
ERIE, PA. – As a freezing gust of wind and snow hits the side of the “strike tent” on the picket line outside of Erie…
Last week, I went on Bob Buzzcano’s podcast “Green & Red” to discuss the missteps of the Major League Players’ Association in the ongoing lockout…
PITTSBURGH, PA. – With MLB’s locking out its players’ union after the collective bargaining agreement expired last night, major league baseball teams can no longer use…