SEIU organizes 2,500 Philly security guards, Penn’s outdoor force still...
From today’s Philly Inquirer: 2,500 Philly security guards unionized under Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and ratified their first contract today. The contract brings wage increases and...
View ArticleFighting for Philly Schools
Philadelphia public schools are perpetually in crisis. State politicians in Harrisburg love to blame it on the corrupt, ineffectual, and free-spending city policymakers. That is utter crap. This is a...
View ArticleYour clothing: Still made in sweatshops
About a month ago I wrote a long read for Salon about the difficulty of purchasing ethical apparel and the fact that moral consumerism is never enough. Although it can provide a good entry to the issue...
View ArticleI’m in the latest issue of Dissent!
The Spring, 2013 issue of Dissent Magazine is here in all its glory and it contains my book review The Right and Labor in America Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, by Nelson Lichtenstein and...
View ArticlePenn guards: More than a year since the union vote, still no contract
I haven’t been focused on keeping the blog updated as my stories come out and now I’m playing catch up. Below you’ll find my Philly City Paper update on the Penn security guards struggle to unionize,...
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