"The idea that it was important for a worker to play the violin, to go to the symphony, never got transported across the Hudson, or at least beyond the Delaware," said William Serrin, the author of a forthcoming history of American labor unions, "Standing Up to Remsnyder".
Swept in by a tide of Republican support in 2010, new GOP majorities in state legislatures from Wisconsin to Tennessee to New Hampshire have introduced bills meant to roll back decades' worth of collective bargaining rights for public-sector unions, the last bastion of organized labor still standing (somewhat) strong.
"But the labor office is standing with the laborers".
"Rewarding the House Republican Leadership's desire to rewrite decades of long standing labor law in a flash by inserting an unrelated and controversial labor provision in a much needed aviation safety and security bill, without notice, hearing, or debate, sets an extremely dangerous precedent," says the letter, led by Communications Workers of America.
He burst into the ballroom, fists thrust in the air, and slapped a string of high-fives with the dozens of labor union members standing onstage.
Instead, my sister had this to anticipate: 24 hours after giving birth – in a scheduled, induced labor, with guards standing by and no family permitted – her newborn would be taken from her (pdf).
Ever since the incident with Keith and Claudia in 2009, which resulted in the termination of their respective marriages and the birth of little Denny — for whom I've felt an uncanny affinity since Claudia went into labor on my standing desk nine months later — the awkwardness has been distracting and counterproductive for us all.
At the center of the movement was the black church, which had, as Aldon D. Morris points out in his superb 1984 study, "The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement," a carefully demarcated division of labor, with various standing committees and disciplined groups.
St. John's mission for social justice is rooted in a strong relationship with the labor movement because standing up for our employees makes us stronger as a whole.
Pain, or something like it, made an appearance now and then, notably in the last moments of the piece, when the dancers, with one leg pointed to the side, labored to stay standing on the other leg while the darkness slowly swallowed them.
