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A wave of organizing service workers has swept through Pittsburgh and the country during the last few years. Many of its leaders say the drastic economic upheaval imposed during the early pandemic months shed new light on long-hidden inequities within the service industry, creating an opening for needed change.
My friend Tom wrote the following: “The university administrators knew that Walter Block himself would never apologize, and neither would I, the sponsor of the lecture. So they pressured several members of the economics department who were not even at the lecture to write a letter of apology in the student newspaper, which they dutifully did. That letter was a lie, since it was signed by “The Economics Department” despite the fact that I did not even hear of the letter as it was being written and certainly did not sign it, and neither did the department chairman, Father Hank Hilton,...