Steven Greenhouse

@greenhousenyt

Former New York Times Labor Reporter—Author of "Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present & Future of American Labor" Publication 8/6/19

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    2 Sep 2019

    In my new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up, my goal was to explain labor unions & worker power—past & present—to people who are eager to know more about labor. I write about the rise of unions & how they lifted millions of workers & built the middle class

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  2. 15 hours ago

    Yes, it's 47 years later, but I--and many people I know--are still angry about the overthrow of Allende. Allende was a good man, a fighter for social justice. Pinochet, who overthrew him, was a bloodthirsty killer & dictator. Very unfortunately, Nixon & Kissinger backed Pinochet

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  3. 15 hours ago

    One can criticize Bernie & any other politician for some of their past positions. For Bret Stephens to fault Bernie for still being angry about the murderous Pinochet's overthrow of Salvador Allende is OUTRAGEOUS. Remember, the CIA aided in that overthrow

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  4. 18 hours ago

    There's an exciting new face and frontier of unionization in the U.S. as unions rack up numerous organizing wins in fields with little unionization, like art museums, tech firms, digital media, nonprofits, cannabis shops, even presidential campaigns.

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  5. 19 hours ago

    In my book, Beaten Down, Worked Up, I explain that 60% of America's low-wage workers don’t receive any paid sick days--a problem that could help spread the coronavirus Unfortunately worker power in the US is too weak to enact a federal paid sick days law

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  6. 19 hours ago

    The U.S. is the ONLY INDUSTRIAL NATION that doesn't guarantee all workers paid sick days. By 85% to 14%, Americans want a law that would guarantee paid sick leave to all workers. But corporate lobbyists have repeatedly gotten lawmakers from one party, the GOP, to block passage

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  7. 19 hours ago

    Corporate America and its lobbyists are helping spread the coronavirus by repeatedly blocking federal legislation that would guarantee all workers paid sick days This means that many cooks, waiters & fast-food workers go to work sick, e.g..with the flu.

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  8. 19 hours ago

    Every single American — whether Republican, Democrat or independent — should recognize that Donald Trump is literally a public menace on this, sabotaging our nation's public health and our emergency preparedness when he says that worries about coronavirus are a new hoax.

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    Here’s Trump at his rally tonight in South Carolina dismissing worries about the coronavirus as the “new hoax”
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  9. Feb 28

    Do you agree with me that it's tantamount to High Crimes and Misdemeanors for Trump to say concerns about the spread of the Coronavirus are a "new hoax"? It shows Trump's huge contempt for the public good and for public health.

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    Here’s Trump at his rally tonight in South Carolina dismissing worries about the coronavirus as the “new hoax”
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  10. Feb 28

    Tensions grow in strike by UC Santa Cruz grad teaching assistants as university fires dozens of striking teaching assistants because they've withheld grades The grad students struck because they said their pay was not keeping up with high cost of living

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  11. Feb 28

    J. David Cox, the president of American Federation of Government Employees, resigns from his position after a dozen union staffers & others said they had experienced or witnessed sexual harassment by Cox.

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  12. Feb 28

    Unions are having a burst of success organizing young workers in numerous sectors with little or no tradition of unionization: art museums, cannabis shops, tech firms, digital media, even presidential campaigns.

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  13. Feb 28

    Nikki Haley must be delighted that Trump appointed Pence as his point man on Coronavirus. If there's a huge outbreak, Trump, being Trump, won't take any responsibility & will blame Pence Then he might think to dump Pence from his ticket, perhaps naming Haley as his running mate

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  14. Feb 28

    Trump's approach to global health is THE EPITOME of penny wise & pound foolish. He cut funding for the Centers for Disease Control, causing an 80% cut in the money it spends on global disease outbreaks. He shut the NSC's entire global-health-security unit

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  15. Feb 28

    In my book I call this "America's anti-worker exceptionalism." I explain that things are badly out of whack with workers having far too little power—Americans overwhelmingly want laws requiring paid sick days & family leave but Corporate America blocks it

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  16. Feb 28

    America's exceptionally bad treatment of workers could speed the spread of the Coronavirus The U.S. is the ONLY wealthy nation that doesn't guarantee all workers paid sick leave, paid family leave & health coverage. This means many workers go to work sick

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  17. Feb 28

    'Gives Me Hope': How Low-Paid Workers Rose Up Against Stagnant Wages "I was talking to a friend recently, like, 'bro, we would still probably be making $7, $8 an hour if we never stood up & fought," says Terrence Wise, a McD's worker & leader.

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  18. Feb 28

    This is so colossally idiotic and dishonest that we should probably consider impeaching Mulvaney for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. (Numbskull Mulvaney doesn't realize that if the media didn't cover the Coronavirus, people would grow less careful & it would spread even more.)

    Mulvaney is saying that the press is now covering Coronavirus because "they think this will bring down the president. That’s what it’s all about."
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  19. Feb 28

    Let's face it — Even though the coronavirus epidemic hasn't hit the U.S. with full force, Trump's mishandling of the epidemic & global health in general is far worse than George Bush's infamous looking out an airplane window at Katrina-bettered New Orleans

    Trump is like the Keystone Cops in how badly he's mishandled the coronavirus crisis —Trump has cut funding for the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, leading to an 80% cut in the resources the agency devotes to global disease outbreaks
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  20. Feb 28

    A coalition of labor unions petitions the Federal Trade Commission to open up an investigation into Amazon's business practices -- which the unions say are often unfair & predatory.

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  21. Feb 28

    Trump's response to crisis is completely self-centered, focused on making Trump look good rather than protecting America. If the facts don’t make Trump look good, he attacks the messengers, blaming the media & Democrats—while trying to prevent scientists from keeping us informed.

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