Sacramento When I heard that President-elect Joe Biden had tapped California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), I reacted differently than most of my right-of-center friends. They were shocked that Biden would…
If it walks and talks like a duck, as the saying goes, you can be reasonably sure it’s a duck. The same could be said of “worker centers,” which talk like unions, try to organize workers like unions, and engage…
Today, over 50 unionized and progressive groups planned to strike in protest of police brutality against blacks and in demand of higher wages. In over 100 U.S. cities, organizers expected tens of thousands to walk off their jobs in support…
Sacramento I was perusing the internet for stories about the communist Chinese government’s brutal crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstrators, who were protesting new national security laws and a measure criminalizing “disrespect” for the national anthem. There was a chilling…
The Bernie Sanders campaign recently announced that it would be raising its salaries staffers’ effective pay to $15 an hour by shortening their workdays. This comes on the heels of reports that middling salaries and 60-hour weeks mean that Bernie…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the side of public-sector workers, preventing them from being forced to pay “fair-share fees” for collective bargaining, means a lot of policy organizations will have to revamp their databases. In a post pointing out…
Recently, more than a dozen out-of-state organizers from the United Auto Workers checked into a hotel in Greenville. Their mission? To start making intrusive house calls at the homes of BMW’s union-free employees in nearby Spartanburg in attempt to unionize…
Sacramento California Democrats frequently bloviate about helping the poor and downtrodden, yet two recent examples — a campaign by the nation’s second-largest public-school district to crush charter alternatives and new state legislation that will boost the cost of housing development…
Since the ascendency of automation, the internet, citizen journalists, social media, talk radio and cable news, by nearly all accounts, institutional journalism (aka the ‘mainstream media empire’) has had a rough couple of decades. Newsrooms across the country have been…
