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Opinion: Amazon, Starbucks, and Other U.S. Workers Fight the Putins at Home, While Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy Rages On
We need to recognize the role of labor and collective organizing in achieving democracy.
Tagged Workplace Democracy
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Want to Save American Democracy? Then Care About Starbucks Workers’ Union Victory
It’s a huge deal—people standing up a declaring they want a voice at the table in their workplace, to participate in making decisions about their lives.
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Opinion: To Really Save Democracy, Democrats Must Rally Behind Biden’s Labor Advocacy
On the whole, as a culture, we don’t speak much of the nation’s failure to extend democracy and civil rights to workers, tending to prioritize the rights of private property and capital
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Opinion: Democracy Dies at Amazon, Are Trump and Bezos Really Such Strange Bedfellows?
Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters for The Washington Post Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig published their assessment of Donald Trump’s presidency to date, seeking to step out of the news cycle and “assess the reverberations” of his administration throughout the nation. Titled A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, the book layers scene…
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Green New Deal and Socialism aside, Ocasio-Cortez Makes Us Re-Think Democracy
For all the talk about socialism and the Green New Deal, though, what really drives Ocasio-Cortez, what is really at the root of her thinking, is her recognition of the need to achieve democracy in America in the most fundamental of ways and in ways, at least in my experience, most Americans rarely think about.