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By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit
The New York Times Opinnion Pages - February 29, 2012
FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winnertake-all plutocracy.
Corporations will tell you that the American labor movement has declined so significantly — to around 7 percent of the private-sector work force today, from 35 percent of the private sector in the mid-1950s — because unions are obsolete in a global economy, where American workers have to compete against low-wage nonunion workers in other countries. But many vibrant industrial democracies, including Germany, have strong unions despite facing the same pressures from globalization. Read More
By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit
The New York Times Opinion
Feb. 29, 2012
From the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winner-take-all plutocracy. MORE
Austin American-Statesman, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013
By Benjamin Wermund - American-Statesman Staff
The Austin school district’s plan to offer health insurance benefits to domestic partners is back on, and those partners could receive the benefits beginning in December.
Austin American-Statesman. Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013
By Melissa B. Taboada - American-Statesman Staff
Fourth-graders learning how to create characters for a story split into pairs Monday in teacher Brandon Ligon’s class, brainstorming qualities of a good friend, then drawing portraits to exhibit them.
One drawing had “listening ears.” Another had a “friendly smile.”
The organization exists to build among its members the power of solidarity and collective action to influence all matters affecting their professional practice, to uphold quality in the institution in which they work, to create excellent working conditions and to align with other workers in the quest for economic and social justice.
