Stockholm Syndrome describes how hostages sometimes identify with their captors, believing cooperation or small concessions might spare them greater harm. In today’s labor movement, we see echoes of that same instinct. Too often we find ourselves nuzzling up to the very forces that are cutting us down, hoping to soften the blow. But it willContinue reading “Stockholm Syndrome and the Labor Movement”
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Labor Day Is Not a Holiday. It’s a Battle Cry.
Last year, 5,283 American workers were killed on the job. They died in fields and factories, in construction zones and warehouses, on highways and hospital floors. When you add work-related illnesses—cancers, respiratory diseases, long-term exposures—the toll soars to over 140,000 lives lost. That’s more than the population of a mid-sized American city, wiped out inContinue reading “Labor Day Is Not a Holiday. It’s a Battle Cry.”
A Holiday Letter of Gratitude to Senator Sherrod Brown From the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Central Labor Council
Dear Senator Sherrod Brown, As the holiday season surrounds us with joy, reflection, and gratitude, the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Central Labor Council—along with our executive board, delegates, more than one hundred affiliated unions, and the over thirty-five thousand working families we are privileged to represent—extends our heartfelt thanks to you. This season of giving and communityContinue reading “A Holiday Letter of Gratitude to Senator Sherrod Brown From the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Central Labor Council”
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