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How to Keep America’s Public Workers Safe as We Emerge From the COVID-19 Lockdown

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Steve Scarpa began fishing antibacterial wipes, socks and even T-shirts out of the sewers in Groton, Connecticut. Scarpa, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9411 and a member of the city’s wastewater treatment crew, said residents went into “mad hysteria cleaning mode” and simply flushed potentially contaminated objects down the …

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Puerto Rico Reinstates Collective Bargaining for Public Employees

Attack on Middle-Class Jobs, Workers Is Nationwide

Leave a Comment / immigration, Right to Work & At-Will employment, wage theft, wages / By max cyril

The incredible response and mobilizations against the coordinated attacks on workers’ rights and middle-class jobs in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana have grabbed most of the media spotlight during the past few weeks. But there are other serious assaults under way in dozens of states, pushed by corporate CEOs and their Republican puppets. Perhaps flying lowest under …

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Martin Luther King Jr. Gave His Life Supporting Workers’ Rights

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we celebrate this weekend, died fighting for the freedom of Memphis sanitation workers to form a union with AFSCME. For King, economic justice went hand in hand with civil rights and the right to join a union was critical to gaining economic justice. Writing on AlterNet, Laura Flanders says: King saw public workers …

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Bloomberg’s Job Killing Budget Cuts

Keeping it Public (If the Libraries Don’t Sway You, the Blazing House Might)

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

Last week, the New York Times reported on Library Systems & Services, a private, for-profit company that an increasing number of towns are contracting to take over their local public libraries. The company pares budgets and turns a profit by, among others things, replacing long-term employees with those who will “work.” In the article, CEO …

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The Terrible Public Pension Threat

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

It’s time for a class war over public union pensions. So says Ron Lieber, writing in the New York Times. Okay, let’s rumble. What’s the score, so far? Despite defined benefit (DB) pensions, like the ones public employees get, being more economically efficient [pdf] and offering better returns, private employers have mostly switched to 401(k) …

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More Salvos in the False “Class War” on Public Pensions

Leave a Comment / pensions, Public Workers / By max cyril

Repeat something often enough and it becomes, if not true, at least a solid bit of conventional wisdom. Consider Ron Lieber’s column in Saturday’s New York Times, which neatly recycles an editorial the Wall Street Journal ran back in March. The issue: the pensions that guarantee public employees a middle-class standard of living in retirement …

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War on Public Workers

Leave a Comment / Public Workers / By max cyril

Conservatives have declared a new class war, but it’s not on bankers earning seven-figure bonuses. Instead, as Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels told Politico recently, the “new privileged class in America” is government employees, who “are better paid than the people who pay their salaries.” We have to escape “public sector unions’ stranglehold on state and …

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How to Keep America’s Public Workers Safe as We Emerge From the COVID-19 Lockdown

Puerto Rico Reinstates Collective Bargaining for Public Employees

Attack on Middle-Class Jobs, Workers Is Nationwide

Martin Luther King Jr. Gave His Life Supporting Workers’ Rights

Bloomberg’s Job Killing Budget Cuts

Keeping it Public (If the Libraries Don’t Sway You, the Blazing House Might)

The Terrible Public Pension Threat

More Salvos in the False “Class War” on Public Pensions

War on Public Workers

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