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Young people who havent had the job experience, these people arent worth $15 an hour, in most cases. >> he just came out and said it, the poor, the minorities, the disenfranchised, young -- theyre not worth it. im afraid youre was wrong. because the economy -- this is how it is. labor scares. some are having to do just that. some businesses have quote found a way around the worker shortages which is raising the wages to $15 an hour more. like this ice cream parlor -- between january and march, s...

Labor movement where workers can actually bargained for their wages and their health care and their secure retirement and other benefits, vacation, things that make it a meaningful life, those things can change. you could have a whole bunch of worker power that games something in one month, and is taken away in the next. if you dont have a union, that contract that is in black and white like those executives demand themselves. >> robert, the question is how temporary this is and how structural. ...

When it is scarce, its going to cost more money. another way to say labor shortage is just to say worker power. and worker power has been largely missing from the u.s. economy for literally 40 years if not more. since the reagan era and the last great bout with inflation, weve seen a vast transformation of the american and global economy. we created in reagans shadow a new economy that offers this mark, consumer goods are cheap, everything from burritos to flat screen tvs to all the stuff you ca...

Have to grow the labor movement. this is what president biden is saying and hes absolutely right. if we dont grow that sustained labor movement where workers can bargain for health care and vacation and things that make it a meaningful life, then those things can change. the corporate elite can change them any day. so, you can have a whole bunch of worker power that gained something in one month and is taken away in the next month if you dont have a union and the contract that is in black and wh...

On May 26, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden nominated Gwynne Wilcox to fill an open seat on the National Labor Relations Board.

On May 26, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden nominated Gwynne Wilcox to fill an open seat on the National Labor Relations Board.  Wilcox is currently a senior partner at a labor-side...

Prospects of joint class struggle NP, May 4) are not new. The debate around them has been going on for years. I have been involved in it and have spilled gigabytes of electronic ink in polemics around it. Instead of tediously repeating myself in responding to comrade bean,  let me summarize my position, and provide some links to articles in which I have set it out in detail, and which readers are invited to consult. Let me start by agreeing with comrade bean regarding the  present characteri...

THE HARD CROWD By Rachel Kushner Not long ago I met a Frenchwoman legendary for her youthful wildness. One story I’d heard involved her borrowing a motorcycle. She was living up a mountain, it was dead-winter, and she needed to go down into the village for cigarettes. The guy who lent her his motorcycle told her that the only way to make it down the icy hairpin bends to the bottom was never once to put your foot on the brake. She did as he said. I seem to remember that she smashed herself ...

Inside stores and a whole bunch of people have been trying to build worker power inside walmart for a long time. and walmart has been very clever and deft at avoiding any kind of concentrated labor power. and i wonder what you see as the next step. >> well, just from the success of our actions yesterday and were going to continue building this thing, continue the discussion with other workers, other associates. and, you know, again, we keep asking the company to just come to the table and talk w...