Mark Brenner

Aggressive Employers Challenge Longshore Workers on Both Coasts

Dockworkers, the standard-bearers of on-the-job power, are facing stepped-up employer pressure on both coasts.

VIDEO DEBATE: Right to Work

I was on Fox News last night debating Vinny Vernuccio from the Mackinac Center about the passage of “right-to-work” in the labor movement’s backyard.

Fiscal Cliff or Fiscal Bluff?

The fiscal cliff doesn't need to be jumped. Panic-mongers are sounding the alarm so they can get away with cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and more. Breathe deep, do nothing, and the clock will run out on Bush’s tax cuts for the 1%.

Reformer Elected to Head ATU Transit Union

Update! Thursday, Sept. 30

Larry Hanley was elected president today of the 190,000-member Amalgamated Transit Union, which organizes bus drivers in cities across the U.S. and Canada, by delegates to the ATU Convention. Hanley helped found the Keep America Moving coalition to build support for mass transit. Labor Notes' Mark Brenner interviewed him this month about how he would run the ATU differently and organize transit workers together with community members.