John Sweeney, former president of the AFL-CIO, died Feb. 1.
Sweeny dedicated his life to working people. He was an organizer, working the streets looking to help people have a voice in their workplaces.
By Jack Metzgar
on Wednesday, January 27 2021 - 1:19am
I’ve been feeling kind of white lately. Maybe it’s some of that white fragility Robin DiAngelo warns us about, but more and more often when I hear somebody say “disproportionately people of color,” it sounds like they’re also saying poor and working-class white people don’t matter. That makes me queasy—kind of fragile, I guess.
Collective bargaining agreements. Union contracts helped protect more jobs, proportionally, against this modern-day plague. Just another reason to join the union.
We hate to sound like a broken record whose needle keeps skipping and playing the same tune over and over again, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual survey of union density and workers’ wages keeps playing the same tune: If you want higher pay, join a union.
