Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
Stain Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
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Stain Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
He embarked on a massive spending agenda that expanded federal safety net programs and seeks to add government benefits for college, child care, health care and paid sick leave. “Big government is back, and it’s back under the auspices of this quote-unquote national emergency,” said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. The activist approach to governing imbues Mr. Biden’s union agenda. The president gave multiple plugs for unions in his address to a joint session of Congress and urged lawmakers to pass the “PRO Act,” which would nullify right...