“I think the fate of the Labor Secretary will be a huge test of this question.” That’s how a senior source in the labor movement described the battle over Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s confirmation to me this week. The question hanging in …
Why Trump turned on the unions
On Tuesday, Donald Trump ousted two of the strongest union advocates at the National Labor Relations Board: board member Gwynne Wilcox and general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. While the firing of Abruzzo is par for the course with the arrival of …
Can Trump flip the unions?
The thick-necked union boss, who’s short on manners and long on tough talk and machismo, is in many ways an endangered American archetype. Amid rampant political correctness and professionalisation, they seem like anachronisms from a lost age; Sean O’Brien, president …