A Marvelously Militant Moment for Labor

The Ownership Class Wants to Loosen the Job Market and Weaken Workers

Hank Kalet Jan 11 ∙ Preview

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About 1,000 faculty, staff, students and allies rallied on Dec. 6 at Voorhees Mall and Winants Hall at Rutgers University’s College Ave campus. My union, PTLFC-AAUP-AFT (the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union), was a primary sponsor.
About 7,000 nurses in New York City¹ have walked off their job, the latest in a string of job actions by workers seeking to take control of their working lives.

The nurses are seeking what they call “Safe staffing” levels, which will require the hiring of new nurses and an increase in wages and benefits to keep current nurses on staff.

Labor militancy is in the air, as Labor Notes reports:

Workers are hoping to take advantage of a tight labor market to reverse years of concessions and win big raises to help cope with inflation. New leaders in the Teamsters, and potentially the Auto Workers (UAW), have promised to put up a more aggressive fight.

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Grassroots Preview: Free Speech, not Corporate Control

An Advance Copy of My Column for The Progressive Populist

Hank Kalet Jan 4 ∙ Preview

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This is an advanced copy of my upcoming column for The Progressive Populist. It is for paid subscribers to this news letter.

The column argues that there is a danger in corporate-driven censorship, which is a free-speech issue though not one covered by the First Amendment. Corporate control of speech, through social media companies and other entities, essentially transfers control over speech issues from a democratic government to a private, profit-driven entity, which is bad for all of us over the long haul.

My last column ran Oct. 15 and was on the rights of temporary workers.

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