Eight Holiday Gifts American Workers Need
It’s that time of the year – the most wonderful time of the year, they say, the hap-happiest season of all. There'll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting and utility repair workers out in...
View ArticleTax Dollars Can Buy Happiness
Corporatists have sought to shame two clear-eyed lawmakers in recent weeks for daring to offer prescriptions to cure America's rampant economic anxiety. “Stupid” is what they tried to call new...
View ArticleThe Indignity of Work Without Pay
In the midst of the longest government shutdown in history, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this week launched a “Dignity of Work” listening tour. The Democratic senator who just won reelection by nearly seven...
View ArticleMore Billionaire Presidential Candidates: A Bitter Pill
Billionaires are pretty damn sure they know what’s best for you. No more taxes on the rich and none of that Medicare-for-all is what’s best for you, according to two billionaires toying with seeking...
View ArticleStanding Together on Trade With China
The trade relationship between China and America is destructive: China’s deliberate trade violations drain America’s strength. Beijing is to America what Delilah was to Samson. Chinese trade officials...
View ArticleGritty Trade Negotiations
It took grit to get this far. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer explained that to Congress last week. So, he said, no one in the administration is backing down now. They’ve managed to...
View ArticleRabble Rousing for Righteous Retirement
Standing out among the bald pates and grey hairs crowding into a Congressional hearing room on Thursday morning with “Protect our Pensions” stickers will be 26-year-old Ben Trusnik. The son, grandson...
View ArticleThe Big Cheat
The children of working stiffs learned a brutal lesson this week as federal prosecutors criminally charged rich people with buying admission to elite universities for their less-than-stellar children....
View ArticleSolidarity Against Hate
The union I lead, the United Steelworkers (USW), believes in unity, that “all working men and women, regardless of creed, color or nationality” are eligible for membership. That was the guiding...
View ArticleRepublicans on Health Care: Do Vast Harm
U.S. Attorney General William Barr, a Republican, told an appeals court that his predecessor, Jeff Sessions, didn't go far enough when he asked a federal judge to kill the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA)...
View ArticleGrad Students Stand With Steelworkers
“Steelworker” generally evokes images of hulking mill buildings, steel-toed boots, and molten metal – not ivory towers, doctoral dissertations, and university research. But 2,000 graduate students at...
View ArticleHow Big Corporations Take Your Tax Dollars
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bernie Sanders, castigator of the one percent, is a millionaire now. So are Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Big whoop. There’s a crucial difference between these candidates...
View ArticleVictims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA
Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot, he had to walk across two sets of Norfolk Southern...
View ArticleAmerican Workers Are Not Happy
Americans are not happy. And for good reason. They continue to suffer financial stress caused by decades of flat income. And every time they make the slightest peep of complaint about a system rigged...
View ArticleThis Is How Medicare For All Will Save Lives
Last month, in a Pittsburgh parking lot following a conference on type one diabetes, three women stood crying. Two of them, mother and teenaged daughter, had just handed a stranger, 25-year-old...
View ArticleHow To Protect The Right To Organize
Abigail Disney, granddaughter of the co-founder of the Walt Disney Co., called out the family business’ current CEO last month for making what’s supposed to be the happiest place on earth pretty darn...
View ArticleThe Koch Brothers' New Look
There’s a new Koch organization in town. Instead of trying to buy politicians to do the bidding of billionaires, as Charles and David Koch have historically done, their rebranded network now says they...
View ArticleNAFTA By Any Name Is Built For The Rich
Mick Mulvaney, the millionaire who is President Trump’s acting chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget, has now awarded himself another job: spokesman for labor. Referring to...
View ArticleThe Soul of a Union Man
Leo Gerard, a longtime contributor to OurFuture, retires Monday after 54 years as a union man and 18 as the International President of United Steelworkers (USW). We thank Leo for his leadership and...
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