To follow on, a CNN poll on the appetite of americans to vote shows the key issue is economy and inflation with jan 6 way down the list of concern.
According to the CNN poll, Republicans are far more enthusiastic than Democrats about voting in the midterms – by a margin of 38% to 24% – and the GOP has a 51-47 lead when voters are asked which party’s candidate they will support in their congressional district,
Unfortunately, what people think their vote means and what it actually means are very different. Politicians have a limited ability to affect the economy, and it takes years for laws to move the needle on inflation or general welfare. The Republicans are very good at messaging and get many votes by pointing to the price of milk. Democrats on the other hand, don’t seem to want to talk about how USA inflation is lower, how they lowered the cost of medication, how they are looking to the future of energy costs, and how they take care of people in need regardless of how they vote.
I think a big part of it is that their policies are directed at big corporations, who actually do affect the economy. Those policies reduce corporate profits, which is good for millions of voters, but if you make big donors mad, they do some crazy things.
The Democrats dont discuss these matter because
A. Inflation is souring and is approaching 10%
B. Drug prices negotiation commence in 2026 and this is only for 10 medications so there is nothing to show for now
C. 13 billion dollars for household energy costs reductions through the use of heat pumps is pittance when compared to trillions spent without debate or hesitation on wars and the military industrial complex
D workers addressing inflation through direct action are being curtailed by the Democrats.
The Biden administration is working tirelessly with the trade union bureaucracies to prevent the outbreak of strikes and social struggles that might threaten corporate profits. The Democratic Party-controlled Congress are preparing to override the democratic will of 120,000 railroad workers to block them from striking and threatening corporate profits.
Inflation is out of control all over the world. There’s nothing President Biden can do about that and it’s not his fault. It’s the greedy corporations.
As for the rest of your statements, I have no idea what you are talking about. Please provide your sources.
Without debate is the key. It’s the one bipartisan thing happening right now. Can’t see why you’d blame Democrats for it
I see one of your items is a direct quote from the web link below. This is a violation of the rules. I’m not going to bother looking the rule up for you. They are under FAQ in the upper menu.
If you want to cut and paste talking points, find another forum. If you want to tell us about the things you read and add your own personal insights, you’re welcome to hang around. There’s no way to tell if you have any personal thoughts if you don’t share them. I’m not going to fact check you if you are just repeating what others say. I don’t go to that website and fact check them, so why would I go there now?
By “fact check” I mean; when did they do this preparing, what leaks or notes from a meeting do you have that they prepared? Who claimed that they are preparing? Is that person credible? Does this preparation fit with other actions Democrats have taken? The answer to any one of these questions would be a reason to either ignore the quote or look into further.
My thoughts with my chosen examples on how and why you are badly informed.
Govt anti strike action is not a new phenomenon and is another example of the two pro business parties working together without debate.
That said, its well known what is going on if you really were invested in what you were saying
I’m not worried about myself being unaware of every story there is to know. There is absolutely no call for you to insult me, twice in one comment. I could ban you right now given the multiple infractions you’ve made.
The comment you responded to was a general one about Democrats supporting working people. I’m aware that our government is run by millionaires and out of touch with us, but I could back up that statement when comparing them to Republicans. Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers, just a small example.
Thanks for the link, but you still have a long way to go to get off my short list. You didn’t show your thoughts, you are just playing link wars. I can critique the Democrats messaging, and compare them to the much worse choice, and still know that, for the most part, they are sending the world down the toilet bowl.
How sad is it when a grown up considers being told they are badly informed as an insult. What a low bar you have set for yourself.
No - you listed four topics that democrats should talk up and i gave you reasons why each is not. Move the conversation along - agree or disagree .
how and why you are badly informed.
and
if you really were invested in what you were saying
are insults.
They don’t support your argument. They aren’t supported by evidence.
I’ll be nice at temporarily silence your account. But I doubt that will change anything
This is the Heather Cox Richardson post about the railroad union contract. it includes history, since that what she does, including the recent history of how Trump set these wheels in motion and how the rail companies are screwing over the workers. Comments to follow
December 5, 2022 (Monday)
On Friday, December 2, President Joe Biden signed into law House Joint Resolution 100, “which provides for a resolution with respect to the unresolved disputes between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers’ Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees.”
What that long title means is that the U.S. government has overridden the usual union ratification procedures of a tentative agreement to hammer out differences between employers and the 115,000 workers covered by the agreement. Eight of the 12 involved unions had agreed to the deal, which provides 24% wage increases but no sick days, and four had not.
Their refusal to agree seemed almost certain to lead to a strike in which all the unions would participate, shutting down key supply chains and badly hurting the U.S. economy. Some estimated the costs of a strike would be about $2 billion a day, freezing almost 30% of freight shipments by weight, and causing a crisis in all economic sectors—including retail, just before the holidays. It would also disrupt travel for up to 7 million commuters a day and stop about 6300 carloads of food every day from moving. So the government stepped in.
Biden asked Congress on Monday, November 28, to act to prevent a rail strike, but there was a long history behind this particular measure, and an even longer one behind the government’s pressure on railroad workers.
The story behind today’s crisis started in 2017 when former president Trump’s trade war hammered agriculture and manufacturing, leading railroad companies to fire workers—more than 20,000 of them in 2019 alone, dropping the number of railroad workers in the U.S. below 200,000 for the first time since the Department of Labor began to keep track of such statistics in the 1940s. By December 2020, the industry had lost 40,000 jobs, most of them among the people who actually operated the trains.
Those jobs did not come back even after the economy did, though, as railroad companies implemented a system called precision scheduled railroading, or PSR. “We fundamentally changed the way we operate over the last 2½ years,” Bryan Tucker, vice president of communications at railroad corporation CSX told Heather Long of the Washington Post in January 2020. “It’s a different way of running a railroad.”
PSR made trains longer and operated them with a skeleton crew that was held to a strict schedule. This dramatically improved on-time delivery rates but sometimes left just two people in charge of a train two to three miles long, with no back-up and no option for sick days, family emergencies, or any of the normal interruptions that life brings, because the staffing was so lean it depended on everyone being in place. Any disruption in schedules brought disciplinary action and possible job loss. Workers got an average of 3 weeks’ vacation and holidays, but the rest of their time, including weekends, was tightly controlled, while smaller crews meant more dangerous working conditions.
PSR helped the railroad corporations make record profits. In 2021, revenue for the two largest railroad corporations in the U.S., the Union Pacific and BNSF (owned by Warren Buffett), jumped 12% to $21.8 billion and 11.6% to $22.5 billion, respectively.
About three years ago, union leaders and railroad management began negotiating new contracts but had little luck. In July, Biden established a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) to try to resolve the differences. The PEB’s August report called for significant wage increases but largely kicked down the road the problems associated with PSR. The National Carriers Conference Committee, which represents the railroads, called the report “fair and appropriate”; not all of the involved unions did.
And here is the deeper historical background to this issue: the government has no final power to force railroad owners to meet workers’ demands. In 1952, in the midst of the Korean War, believing that steel companies were being unreasonable in their unwillingness to bargain with workers, President Harry S. Truman seized control of steel production facilities to prevent a strike that would stop the production of steel defense contractors needed. But, in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer decision, the Supreme Court said that the president could not seize private property unless Congress explicitly authorized it to do so. This means that the government has very little leverage over corporations to force them to meet workers’ demands.
But, thanks to the 1926 Railway Labor Act, Congress can force railroad workers to stay on the job. The 1926 law was one of the first laws on the books to try to stop strikes by providing a mechanism for negotiations between workers and employers. But if the two sides cannot agree after a long pattern of negotiations and cooling off periods, Congress can impose a deal that both sides have to honor.
The idea was to force both sides to bargain, but a key player in this policy was the American consumer, who had turned harshly against railroad workers when the two-month 1894 Pullman Strike, after drastic wage cuts, shut down the country. For the most part, Americans turned against the strikers as travel became diabolically difficult and goods stopped moving. Even reformer Jane Addams, who generally sympathized with workers, worried that the economic crisis had made forgiving the strikers “well-nigh impossible.”
While management generally likes the current system, workers point out that it removes their most effective leverage. Employers can always count on Congress to step in to avoid a railroad strike that would bring the country’s economy to its knees. On November 28, CNN Business reported that more than 400 business groups were asking Congress to enforce the tentative deal in order to prevent a strike. At the same time, the Supreme Court in 1952 took away the main leverage the government had against companies.
And so the House passed the measure forcing the unions to accept the tentative deal on Wednesday, November 30, by a vote of 290 to 137. Two hundred and eleven (211) Democrats voted yes; 8 voted no. Seventy-nine (79) Republicans voted yes; 129 voted no.
But then the House promptly took up a measure, House Concurrent Resolution 119, to correct the bill by providing a minimum of 7 paid sick days for the employees covered by the agreement. That, too, passed, by a vote of 221 to 207, with three Republicans joining all the Democrats to vote yes. Those three Republicans were Don Bacon (R-NE), who has gotten attention lately for trying to carve a space for himself away from the rest of the party as someone concerned about practical matters; Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA); and John Katko (R-NY).
It was a neat way for Congress to impose its will on the companies under the terms of the Railway Labor Act.
The Senate approved the bill on Thursday by a vote of 80 to 15, with Rand Paul (R-KY) voting “present” and four others not voting. The 80 yes votes were bipartisan and so were the 15 no votes. Five Democrats—Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT)—joined ten Republicans to oppose the measure.
Then the Senate took up the concurrent resolution, which it rejected by a vote of 52 yes votes to 43 no votes, with five not voting. That is, the measure won a majority—52 votes—but because of the current understanding of the filibuster rule, the Senate cannot pass a measure without a supermajority of 60 votes. The yes votes for the sick leave addition were nearly all Democrats, along with six Republicans. The no votes were all Republicans, with the addition of one Democrat: Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Biden maintains he supports paid sick leave for all workers, not just railroad workers, and promises to continue to work for it.
But the railway struggle was about more than sick leave. It was about a system that has historically made it harder for workers than for employers to get what they want. And it is about consumers, who—in the past at any rate—have blamed strikers rather than management when the trains stopped running.
There’s a different thread with ruleswithoutborders linking to a socialist website (edit: he didn’t link, he quoted it without citation, see my moderation comment on Nov 4) that was ahead of this story, talking about how Biden is anti-union and ready to override their votes in the name of “business”. I won’t bother responding to that in detail, since that user is gone now anyway.
What’s interesting is sites like that, which appear to be actual socialists organizing to promote worker’s rights, leave out so much of the surrounding stories in cases like this. If I had the time, and maybe some more research skills, I’d look into just who is behind those sites. Either, they are sincere but just angry and quick to judge and only look at the surface of the situation, or they are completely lying and looking for ways to discredit Democrats. Either way, it attracts people like “rulesw/ob”, or he was just a shill for them, trying to attract others to his simplified view of politics.
Anyway, enjoy the Richardson, she’s amazing.
You know, if President Biden is anti-union that is a real shame. We really need a president who is pro-union, pro-human, pro-women, pro-minority, pro-elderly, etc
I don’t think he is. He wanted them to get the raise and avoid the strike, which he accomplished. He’ll keep working on getting the sick leave, but govt can’t just dictate that. Republicans voted against putting that in the contract.
Everyone needs sick leave, but the Repugs work for greedy corporations, who don’t want employees taking off for any reason due to the greedy corporations’ belief that the more employees work the more profits. The greedy corporations in the U.S., unlike Europe, don’t realize that if they overwork their employees, productivity actually goes down, not up.
You are a major tool. Biden first issued a statement urging congressional action to block a strike before he intoduced the legislation. Whats he going to do? Ask the railway bosses pretty please can yue workers have sick leave?
Welcome Mr. Doof. Maybe you can address my questions about the World Socialists. I’m fine with my understanding of the history, as noted above, “thanks to the 1926 Railway Labor Act, Congress can force railroad workers to stay on the job.” Which means if the union votes to strike, the Railways need to have the US government on their side to change that result. They are the ones who have to say “pretty please”. The problem is, we are under minority rule, with a few senators, who were voted in by a minority of the voters, in small states, with gerrymandered districts that are illegal according to their courts, can override what workers want.
First, it may behoove you to enter politely.
Second, a president has to consider the nation’s economy above all special interest groups.
The planned strike threatened to bring the nation to a complete standstill and presented a national security threat.
What is a national security threat?
What Is a National Security Threat? Anything that threatens the physical well-being of the population or jeopardizes the stability of a nation’s economy or institutions is considered a national security threat.Sep 3, 2020
5 Threats to National Security and How Government Protects | EKU Online
So, president Biden secured the continuation of interstate transport, before entering into negotiations about the issues.
I believe that the issue was resolved peacefully and to the general satisfaction of the majority of participants.
How soon we forget what Biden has done for the working class to get them through a national COVID crisis. Particularly raising the welfare of millions of children.
By Dylan Matthewsdylan@vox.com Mar 10, 2021, 2:20pm EST
Biden is very much underestimated. he has been and continues to be an extraordinary low-key but successful leader and I sincerely hope he gets reelected if he runs again.
Good point. That little shield icon by my name indicates I’m a moderator. Rules and guidelines can be found under FAQ in the menu (upper right).
Whats the question about wsws with regards to government intervention to suppress workers rights ?
I read both pieces and dont see how heathers counters wsws messaging. In fact its class conscious writings is well founded in historians understanding of what has and is occurring here and why.
Open Letter: 500+ Historians Support the Railway Workers
President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20500
CC: Secretary Martin J. Walsh
Department of Labor
200 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
Dear President Biden and Secretary Walsh,
We are historians of working people in the United States, committed to democratic trade unionism and a government that respects and encourages collective bargaining as a means to that end. Among our number are historians of air traffic controllers (PATCO), airline mechanics, railway workers, and wartime federal labor mediation. We are alarmed by your decision to ask Congress to impose an unfair and unpopular settlement in the current railway labor negotiations, which constitutes a negation of the democratic will of tens of thousands of workers and a subversion of your commitment to a revival of the American union movement. Instead of imposing a contract that these workers have already rejected, we urge you to put the full force of your Administration behind the eminently just demands of the railway workers, especially those that provide them with a livable and dignified work life schedule.
From the late 19th century onward, Americans have recognized that labor conflicts in rail and other transportation networks are of special importance for the functioning of society as a whole. The railways are a “common carrier,” as indispensable for daily life as water, money, or the power grid. More to the point, no railcar can run without the workers employed in the industry. As a result, special legislation such as the Railway Labor Act of 1926 was enacted even before the New Deal. History shows us that the special legal treatment of rail and other transportation strikes offers the federal government—and the executive branch in particular—a rare opportunity to directly shape the outcome of collective bargaining, for good or for ill. During the Gilded Age, presidents sent armed soldiers to break rail strikes. During World War I, Woodrow Wilson and Congress averted a rail strike by giving the workers what they wanted: the eight-hour day.
These dramatic interventions can set the tone for entire eras of subsequent history. In 1916, railway workers won the eight-hour day, a form of economic freedom that millions more workers across industries would win during the 1930s. In other cases, government suppression of the rights of labor, including the right to strike, has bred violence, repression, and political and social alienation. You witnessed this in your own lifetime, when Ronald Reagan’s notorious breaking of the PATCO strike in 1981 (which resulted in the jailing of union leaders, the firing and permanent replacement of the striking air traffic controllers, and the decertification of the union) served as the starting gun for an economy-wide assault on workers’ rights and organizations. We are still dealing with the consequences today.
President Biden, you have vowed to become the “most pro-union president” in American history. You have said that “No one should have to choose between their job and their health – or the health of their children.” You have also issued executive orders and signed legislation claiming to promote the resiliency of our supply chains. What do these commitments mean if the women and men who work in an essential industry like rail cannot count on your support in their fight for basic protections? How resilient is a supply chain staffed by workers who lack basic democratic rights and social protections?
We call on the President, the Secretary of Labor, and Democratic congressional leaders:
Renounce your intention to intervene against the railway workers’ exercise of their legal right to withhold their labor in a contract-related strike.
Use the full force of their formal and informal powers to ensure that workers win a contract that meets their fair and modest demands regarding paid sick days. If the party leadership cannot or will not do this, we call upon progressives in Congress to reject any imposed settlement that shortchanges workers and undermines collective bargaining and the right to strike.
Signed:
Joseph A. McCartin, Professor of History and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University*
Nelson Lichtenstein, Distinguished Professor in History and Director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, UC Santa Barbara
Kim Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History, Columbia University
Scott Nelson, Georgia Athletic Association Professor of History, UGA
Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA
Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, emeritus, Stanford University
Gabriel Winant, University of Chicago
David Stein, UC Santa Barbara
Peter Rachleff, East Side Freedom Library
Josh Freeman, School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY
Ruth Milkman, Sociology, History, the Graduate Center, CUNY
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago
Samir Sonti, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Andrew Elrod, United Teachers Los Angeles
Tim Barker, HGSU-UAW 5118
Ben Tarnoff, Logic Magazine
Erik Baker, Lecturer on the History of Science, Harvard University
Jennifer Klein, Yale University
Brandon Mancilla, Harvard University
Samantha Payne, College of Charleston
Rudi Batzell, Lake Forest College
Cristina Viviana Groeger, Lake Forest College
Jennifer Mittelstadt, Rutgers University
Allyson Brantley, University of La Verne
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
Trevor Griffey, UCLA
Ian Gavigan, Rutgers-NB
Greg Geddes, SUNY Orange
William Bauer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
Emma Teitelman, Penn State University
Donna Murch, Rutgers University
Jeff Schuhrke, SUNY Empire State College
Laura Murphy, Dutchess Community College
Dan Berger, University of Washington Bothell
Brishen Rogers, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Bob Hutton, Glenville State University
Victor Silverman, Pomona College
Austin McCoy, West Virginia University
Chris Wright, Hunter College
Emily Lieb, Seattle University
Liat Spiro, College of the Holy Cross
Carol Quirke, SUNY Old Westbury
Christopher R. Martin, University of Northern Iowa
Aaron Jesch, Washington State University
Mary Reynolds, Reflective Democracy Campaign
Alexandra Finley, University of Pittsburgh
Matthew Garcia, Dartmouth College
Thomas Adams, University of South Alabama
Alan Simon, Independent scholar
William P. Jones, University of Minnesota
Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
Keri Leigh Merritt
Emily E. LB. Twarog , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jenny Carson , Associate Professor, History, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Simon Balto, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Mary Anne Trasciatti , Director of Labor Studies, Hofstra University
Devra Anne Weber, UC, Riverside
Tom Alter, Texas State University
Lara Vapnek, St. John’s University
David Huyssen, The New School
Joe Gowaskie, Rider University, Emeritus Professor of History
William Mello, Indiana University
Chad Pearson, University of North Texas
Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University
James A. Young, Penn West University - Edinboro President., PA Labor History Society
Leon Fink, Editor, LABOR: STUDIES IN WORKING-CLASS HISTORY
Shannan Clark, Montclair State University
James R. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel Sidorick, Rutgers University
Stephanie M. Riley, University of South Carolina
Bob Hutton, Glenville State University
Sarah Milov, University of Virginia
Jacob A.C. Remes, New York University
Benjamin Holtzman, Lehman College
Toni Gilpin, Ph.D, Independent Scholar
R.H Lossin, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University
Margaret Gray, Adelphi University
Dave Marquis, University of South Carolina
Mark Soderstrom, SUNY Empire State College
Susan Eisenberg, Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center
Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa
Grace Reinke, University of New Orleans
Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago
Jarod Roll, University of Mississippi
Josiah Rector, University of Houston
Susan Kang, John Jay College, CUNY
Max Fraser, University of Miami
Debbie Goldman, independent scholar
Donna Haverty-Stacke, Hunter College, CUNY
Richard Wells, Empire State College/SUNY
Cal Winslow, Mendocino Institute
Kathryn M. Silva, Associate Professor of History, Claflin University
William E. Forbath, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law Professor of History University of Texas, Austin
Daniel Clark, Oakland University
Alex Tabor, Carnegie Mellon University
Adolph Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania
Jeannette Estruth, Bard College and the Harvard Berkman Klein Center
David Cochran, John A. Logan Community College
Andrew Ross, New York University
Frank Emspak, School for Workers, University of WI Retired
Michael Innis-Jimenez, University of Alabama
Dennis Patrick Halpin, Virginia Tech
William Hal Gorby, West Virginia University
Rick Halpern, University of Toronto
Kevan Antonio Aguilar, UC Irvine
Jeannette Estruth, Bard College and the Harvard Berkman Klein Center
Rosemary Feurer, Northern Illinois University
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, UNC Chapel Hill
Peter Cole, Western Illinois University
Tom Lux, President, Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
Steve Striffler, UMass Boston
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
David Vaught , Texas A&M University
Sharon McConnell-Sidorick, Independent Scholar
Alexander M. Dunphy, University of Maryland
Ruth Needleman , Prof emerita. Indiana University
Marc Kagan, Lehman College
Kyle Kern, Independent Scholar
Brian Truebe, University of Arizona
Mike Slott, Rutgers University
Joseph van der Naald, CUNY Graduate Center
Gordon Andrews, Grand Valley State University
David Vaught, Texas A&M University
Matthew Noah Smith, Northeastern University
David Brundage, UC Santa Cruz
David A. Walsh, University of Virginia
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
Connor Harney, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kit Ginzky, University of Chicago, Graduate Students United-UE
Justine Modica, Cornell University
Joseph M. Gabriel, Florida State University,
Sanjukta Paul, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Charles Williams, University of Washington Tacoma
Holly Brewer, University of Maryland
Dave Kamper, New Brookwood Labor College
Lisa Lowe, Yale University
Kimberly A Enderle, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Julie Greene, University of Maryland at College Park
Timothy J Lombardo, University of South Alabama
Andrew Pope, Harvard University
Melanie Newport, University of Connecticut
Rebecca Givan, Rutgers University
Aimee Loiselle, Central Connecticut State University
Steve Kass, Greater New Haven Labor History Association
Miriam Posner, UCLA
Steve Early, NewsGuild/CWA
Janine Giordano Drake , Indiana University
David Roediger, University of Kansas
Salem Elzway, University of Michigan
Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Jon Bekken, Albright College
LisaMary Wichowski, Salve Regina University
Werner Steger, Dutchess Community College
Joe Neumann, Special Collections Librarian, University of Maryland Baltimore
Brian Connolly, University of South Florida
Daniel Bessner, University of Washington
David Newby, President Emeritus, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
Liesl Miller Orenic, Dominican University
David Helps, University of Michigan
Erik Gellman, UNC
Anna R. Igra, Carleton College
Michael Kazin, Georgetown University
Kenneth Alyass, Harvard University
Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University
Keona Katrice Ervin, Bowdoin College
Matthew F. Nichter, Rollins College
Nancy Gabin, Purdue University
Charles McCollester, Battle of Homestead Foundation, Pennsylvania Labor History Society
Nate Holdren, Drake University Program in Law, Politics, and Society
William Brucher, Rutgers University
Gwendolyn Lockman, University of Texas at Austin
Kade Doyle Griffiths, PSC -AFT , CUNY
Hossein Ayazi, University of California, Berkeley
Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, Dept. of History, Harvard University
Jack Devine, CUNY Graduate Center
Amy C. Offner, University of Pennsylvania
Eric M. Fink, Elon University School of Law
Melissa Ford, Slippery Rock University
Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Margot Canaday, Princeton University
David Marcus, The Nation
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
Christien Tompkins, Rutger University
Elizabeth Jameson, University of Calgary, Professor Emerita of History (US citizen and American historian)
Richard Yeselson, Dissent Magazine
Kafui Attoh, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Dan Gilbert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beth E. Wilson, SUNY New Paltz
Rachel McKinney, Suffolk University
Ben Zdencanovic, UCLA
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
Brian Greenberg, Monmouth University
Jason Doering, Railroad Workers United
Justin Clark, Nanyang Technological University
Sandi E. Cooper, Prof emerita, CUNY
Sheetal Chhabria, Connecticut College
Bruce Laurie, UMass Amherst retired
John Enyeart, Bucknell University
Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Terence Renaud, University of Chicago
Alex Keyssar, Harvard University
Jamie Weiss, University of Georgia
Bryant Etheridge, Bridgewater State University
Greta de Jong, University of Nevada, Reno
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Christopher Thale, Columbia College Chicago
Chris Choe, UGA
Fred Glass, City College of San Francisco
Alex Gourevitch, Brown University
Tamar W. Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tom Juravich, UMass Amherst
Jessy A. Munoz-Lopez, College Of The Atlantic
Stephen Pitti, Yale University
Joel Suarez, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Dr. Teresa Hill, Retired
Cindy Hahamovitch, President of the Labor and Working Class History Association
Minju Bae, Rutgers University
James W. Wrenn, NC State University and UE Local 150
Natasha Zaretsky, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Esther Isaac, University of Chicago, Graduate Students United-UE
Dave Hageman, Unaffiliated
Jess Marfisi, IATSE Local 839
Joshua Donovan, German Historical Institute, Washington Pacific Office
Jake Wolff, Temple University
Jason A. Heppler, George Mason University
Nick Juravich, UMass Boston
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Terry L. Taylor, Shoreline Community College
Chris Dingwall, Oakland University
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Northwestern University
Donna M. Binkiewicz, California State University, Long Beach
Matthew Countryman, University of Michigan
Patrick Sheridan, Universal of Georgia
Paul C. Mishler, Associate Professor of Labor Studies, Indiana University
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, UC San Diego
Steven C. Beda, University of Oregon
Andy Liu, Villanova University
Vicki L. Ruiz, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine
Mal Ahern, University of Washington
Hannah Forsyth, Australian Catholic University
Pedro A. Regalado, Stanford University
David M. Anderson, Louisiana Tech University
Dara Orenstein, George Washington University
Trish Kahle, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Qatar
Jeremiah Lawson, UAW 2865, UC Irvine, Sociology PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences
Kevin O’Halloran, Pomona College
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Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Aaron Goings, Saint Martin’s University
Kelly Goodman, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Jason Resnikoff, University of Groningen
Tobias Higbie, University of California, Los Angeles
Laleh Khalili, QMUL (and Columbia alum)
Suzi Weissman, Saint Mary’s College of California
Robert Brenner, Center for Social Theory & Comparative History, UCLA
Barry Eidlin, McGill University
Anna Stroinski (US-UK Fulbright Grantee, Durham University)
Ken Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University (Emeritus)
Vivian Price, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Carmen Martino, Rutgers University
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Cody Stephens, Penn State University
Kit Smemo, Washington University in St Louis
Melanie A. Kiechle, Virginia Tech
Jay Winston Driskell Jr, Historical Research and Consulting, Washington DC
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Christian Parenti, City University of New York
Kirsten Swinth, Fordham University
Rachel Lee Rubin, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Michael McIntyre, DePaul University
Andy Battle, The New School
Jonathan Cortez, The University of Texas at Austin
Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University
Allen Ruff
Kerry Jo Green, Irving & Rose Crown Fellow, Brandeis University
Emile Amt, Hood College (emeritus)
Manu Karuka, Barnard College
Lawrence Glickman, Cornell University
Christina Heatherton, Trinity College
Alan Derickson, Penn State University
Stephen Macekura, Indiana University
Ileen A. DeVault, Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Amy Zanoni
Susan Pearsin, Professor of History, Northwestern University
Alexander Aviña, Arizona State University
Bench Ansfield, Dartmouth College
Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College
Dexter Arnold
Andy Banks
Michael Billeaux Martinez, Madison Area Technical College
Viet N. Trinh, Earlham College
Beth English, Indiana University
Sergio M. González, Marquette University
Jennifer Standish, UNC Chapel Hill
Yesenia Barragan, Rutgers University
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Cornell University
Allen Binstock
Paul Frymer, Princeton University
David Weinfeld, Rowan University
Jessica Wilkerson, West Virginia University
Kevin Boyle, Northwestern University
James L. Hill, University of Pittsburgh
Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
Brian Justie, UCLA
Fraser Ottanelli, University of South Florida
James C. Benton, Georgetown University
Beth Robinson, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Heather Sinclair, Penn State
Francis Ryan, Rutgers University
Cyra Akila Choudhury, FIU College of Law
Linda H Donahue, Cornell ILR School (retired)
Stephanie Luce, School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY
Michael Reagan, Rutgers University
Karen Miller, City University of New York, AFT Local 2334
Fran Shor, Wayne State University
Louis Hyman, Cornell University
Emily Pope-Obeda, Lehigh University
Mary Hicks, University of Chicago
Lorenzo Costaguta, University of Bristol
Michael Childers, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
William M. Adler
Rebecca Hill Kennesaw, State University
Lisa Labovitch, PNW historian
Micah Uetricht, Jacobin magazine
Melvyn Dubofsky, Distinguished Professor of History & Sociology Emeritus, SUNY Binghamton
Michael Koncewicz, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University
Jordan T. Camp, Trinity College
Stephen Petrie, AFSCME Local 526
Elizabeth Henson, University of Arizona
David Laibman, Professor Emeritus (Economics), City University of New York
Michael J. Allen, Northwestern University
Adam Quinn, University of Oregon / AFT Local 3544
Eric Fure-Slocum, St. Olaf College
Sanford Jacoby, UCLA
Kathleen Belew, Northwestern University
Annelise Orleck, Professor of HIstory, Dartmouth College
Steve McFarland, CSU-Dominguez Hills
Eric Blanc, Inc. Assistant Professor of Labor Studies, Rutgers University
Alfredo Carlos, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Grace Davie, Queens College, CUNY
Kate Sampsell
Alicia Puglionesi, Johns Hopkins University
Colin Davis, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael G. Hillard, University of Southern Maine
Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois
Richard L Heuring, SMART
Holger Droessler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Evan P. Bennett, Florida Atlantic University
David H Slavin, Emory U cont. ed.
Lou Martin, Chatham University
Teresa Mack, CNA-NNU
Margaret Stevens, Essex County College
Michael Mark Cohen, University of California at Berkeley
Derek Chang, Cornell University
David Zonderman, North Carolina State University
Alice R Wexler, Hereditary Disease Foundation
Kim Moody, University of Westminster, London, UK
Priscilla Murolo, professor emerita, Sarah Lawrence College
Elizabeth Sine, Cal Poly State University SLO
Colette Perold, University of Colorado Boulder
Bill Barry, Retired/Community College of Baltimore County-Dundalk
Chris Cronbaugh, Kirkwood Community College
Cynthia Wright, York University
Benjamin Balthaser, Indiana University
Jessica Levy, Purchase College, SUNY
Alina R. Méndez, University of Washington Seattle
Paul M. Renfro, Florida State University
Shawn Gude
Jeff Stilley, Virginia Tech
Amelia Golcheski, Emory University
Randi Storch, SUNY Cortland
Meghna Chaudhuri , Boston College
Charles Petersen, Cornell University
Benjamin Feldman , CSU- East Bay
Steve Fraser, Independent scholar
Todd Wolfson, Rutgers University
Shaun Scott, Public historian, Seattle, Washington
Christina Dunbar-Hester, University of Southern California
Jeffers Lennox, Wesleyan University
Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island
Branden Adams, UCSB
Jackson Osborne
Kenneth A. Germanson, Wisconsin Labor History Society
Colleen O’Neill, Utah State University
Peter Bohmer, The Evergreen State College
Dr. Kevin Van Meter, Affiliated Faculty, LERC at University of Oregon & Union Organizer
Augustus Wood, University of Illinois
Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island
Eric Arnesen, George Washington University
Jeff Melnick, UMass Boston
Peter C. Pihos, Western Washington University
Janice Kelble, retired American Postal Workers Union
Paul F. Clark, School of LER, Penn State University
Bob Bussel, University of Oregon
Cedric Johnson, University of Illinois at Chicago/UICUF Local 6456
Luke Masa, West Virginia University
Alex Beasley, The University of Texas at Austin
Matthew Keaney, Housatonic Community College
Mark Gibb, University of Georgia
Brian Dolber, California State University San Marcos
Greg Grandin, Yale
Meg Jacobs, Princeton University
Jaclyn J. Kelly, President, AFSCME Local 526; Milwaukee Public Museum; Wisconsin Labor History Society
Alexander Wood
Jacob F. Lee, Assistant Professor of History, Penn State University
Ronald Schatz, Wesleyan University
Matt Stanley, University of Arkansas
Maggie Clinton, Middlebury College
Bryan Winston, Wesleyan University
James C. Maroney, Lee College, retired
Ben Alpers, University of Oklahoma
Rob Konkel, Yale
Nicholas Budimir, Muskegon Community College Faculty Association (MEA)
Faith Bennett, UC Davis, UAW2865
Justin F. Jackson, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Cynthia Yuan Gao, New York University, GSOC UAW-2110
Bill Balderston Solidarity, Oakland Education Assoc.
Whitney Strub, Rutgers University-Newark
John Holmes, Merritt College
Christopher M. Hill, California State University, Chico. (Graduate Student)
Chelsie Wilson
Dr. Katie Singer, Independent scholar
Sharon Ullman, Bryn Mawr College
Dawson Barrett, Del Mar College
Kathleen Banks Nutter, Smith College
Les Robinson, Brown University
Jane Dailey, University of Chicago
Michael Williams, Tacoma Labor School
Sarah E. Igo, Vanderbilt University
Benjamin Serby, Adelphi University Honors College
Nic John Ramos, Drexel University
Adam Dean, George Washington University
Amanda Ciafone, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Ericka Wills, School for Workers, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paul Gilmore, Fresno City College, SCFT-AFT
Evan Rothman, CUNY Graduate Center
Rick Baldoz, Brown University
Kathryn Lehman, Columbia College
Jane McAlevey, UC Berkeley (on strike)
Elena Razlogova, U.S. History, Concordia University, Montreal
Stanley Anton Gronek, Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1001-retired Financial Secretary
Theresa Ann Case, University of Houston-Downtown
Jerry Carbo, Shippensburg University
Dr. Peter Labuza, IATSE Local 600
Gino Canella, Emerson College
Daniel Zylberkan, Florida State University
Caroline Waldron, University of Dayton
Brooke Depenbusch, University of Illinois Springfield
Jesse Ritner, The University of Texas at Austin
Pam Butler, University of Notre Dame
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox , Case Western Reserve University
James Robinson, Labor Studies, Rutgers University
Howard Brick, University of Michigan
Adam Tompkins, Lakeland University Japan
Carolyn J. Eichner, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Richard Grossman, Northeastern Illinois University, University Professionals of Illinois, AFT local 4100
James R. Tracy, City College of San Francisco
Erik Wallenberg, Visiting Assistant Professor, History, New College of Florida
Benjamin Prostine, University of Georgia
Pat Reeve, Suffolk University
Mars Plater, University of Connecticut
Heather Gautney, Fordham University
Zane Curtis-Olsen, Bard High School Early College Queens
Dan Graff, University of Notre Dame
Joseph E. Hower, Southwestern University
Jonathan Graubart, San Diego State University
Stephen Brier, Prof. Emeritus CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
Jamie McCallum, Middlebury College
Mary Rizzo, Rutgers University-Newark
Sonia Hernandez, Texas A&M University
Savvina Chowdhury, The Evergreen State College
Michael K. Rosenow, University of Central Arkansas
Martha Ecker, Ramapo College of New Jersey
John Baranski, El Camino College
Trase Passantino, CPUSA
Christian Ringdal, Independent Scholar
Sara Matthiesen, George Washington University, George
Washington University
Michael Botson, Houston Community College Retired
Gavin Moulton, University of Notre Dame
AR Williams, UNCP
Eric Poulos
Evi Magnolia
Amanda Martin-Hardin, Columbia
Will Raby, UNC-Chapel Hill, UE 150
Deirdre S. Kearney, Rockingham Community College, NC
Seth Wigderson, University of Maine at Augusta (Emeritus)
Gregory Kealey, University of New Brunswick
Hallie Knipp, Clemson University
Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University
Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University
Julia Mead, University of Chicago, Graduate Students United-UE
Doug Kiel, Northwestern University
Richard Anderson, Moravian University
Sarah Rose, University of Texas at Arlington
Bill Shields, Labor and Community Studies, City College of
San Francisco, Retired
Paul K. Adler, Colorado College
Anibel Ferus-Comelo, UC Berkeley
Seth Wigderson, University of Maine at Augusta (Emeritus)
Marisa Chappell, Oregon State University
Lane Windham, Georgetown University
Eve O’Connor, Harvard University
Joyce Mao, Middlebury College
Rick Perlstein
Allan Kulikoff, Professor, University of Georgia
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