“The unions should come out and help us…. and as you know, in all the plants where they have unions is where minorities do the best.”
Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance: What Does It Mean?
On Monday, June 2, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance raising the minimum wage in that city to $15 per hour for some workers starting in April of next year […]
Radio Show on the Union Leadership
Last Saturday (6/7), the editor of this blog site – John Reimann – was on WEFT’s radio program “World Labor Hour,” in a discussion on what has happened in the US labor movement, […]
Seattle Democrats: “Showing Leadership?”
An article on yesterday’s al Jazeera web site reports on Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant and the campaign for a $15 per hour minimum wage. It reports on a proposal […]
Open Letter to Socialist Alternative for campaign in UFCW
Dear Comrades in Socialist Alternative: Your recent 15 Now conference had some interesting debate on different issues. For me, the most important issue was that of the collective bargaining opt-out for HERE […]
Support South African Miners
We have received the following appeal: An Injury to One is an Injury to All A living wage for mineworkers is a living wage for all Comrades, We humbly write these words […]
Seattle Ballot Initiative Filed
15 Now in Seattle has filed a ballot initiative (more than one, actually, for legal reasons) to increase Seattle’s minimum wage to $15 per hour starting January, 2015. The increase would apply […]
The Minimum Wage, the Democrats, the Union Leadership and Kshama Sawant
The union leadership is tailing the Democrats once again, this time on the issue of the minimum wage. In keeping with tradition, the Democrats are pushing the issue in the hopes […]
A Sad State of Affairs
I am now in Seattle seeing what the Kshama Sawant campaign is doing. I just went to a meeting of some members of the International Association of Machinists. These are members who […]
Tennessee auto workers turn down (company) union
Frank Fischer, the chairman and CEO of the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, left, and Gary Casteel, a regional director of the UAW, hold a joint press conference on Feb. 14. Can workers […]