After a plea from Governor Whitmer, nursing home workers will suspend a planned strike for thirty days while negotiations continue. The drive for collective action comes after months of stress and anguish.
Politics cannot just be about consensus. It must also be about conflict. More important, it must always be about asking for more.
Environmental regulations never got the chance to destroy whole sectors of “good jobs” as their opponents promised they would—fossil fuel companies themselves, backed by neoliberal policy, destroyed them instead.
Joel Berger, a second-generation Detroit public school teacher, talks about teacher protests over the city’s dilapidated schools and the water crisis in Flint.
Belabored talked to Michael Mulholland, president of the utilities union AFSCME Local 207 in Detroit, about last week’s financial deal, the impact on union workers, and the political forces driving what he calls a manufactured financial crisis.
Why hasn’t Occupy Wall Street taken off in Detroit?
