Labor historians: does anyone have a copy (or know which archive DOES have a copy) of Wyndham Mortimer’s FBI file?

One upside to living through this saga: it’s difficult to describe how invigorated federal sector unions have become due to stunts like these, from officers on down to the most flimsy of paper members. There is an energy coursing through locals that I imagine is similar to a plant-closing fight.

I am personally not a Bernie dead-ender in my politics, but it is extremely concerning to me that no one in the Democratic Party has thought to do a cross-country tour rallying against the administration’s economic policies except for an 83-year-old with a recent history of heart problems.

Is Walter Reuther going to make an appearance in that Ezra Klein book?

Homeschoolers should have to pay double property taxes to offset the cost of regular kids having to explain everything to them later

It legitimately terrifies me that there is likely a critical mass of elected and consultant Dems who agree with this “diagnosis.”

How do we get people like this to understand that people’s work matters to them and massively impacts their socialization?

This article by @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social is a useful early mile marker on the UAW’s southern organizing campaign: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I think the reaction to the Pod Save America interview with the Kamala brain trust is a bit overblown—they are right on most of the fundamentals of the race and the underdog position they were in—but it serves as a useful encapsulation of why the party’s 2028 candidate needs to be an outsider.

I like the energy behind the Shawn Fain 2028 talk but worry people are overestimating the appeal of labor leaders to the general public in this era.

That also seems to be a colossal waste of Fain’s time.

I don’t meant to give people like Yglesias any credit, as many of these post-mortem takes are just left-baiting, but it seems genuinely disastrous that California and New York are hemorrhaging voters to Florida and Texas and we should be doing everything possible to fix blue state population loss.

If you are a lawyer who is interested in this sort of thing, please stop what you are doing and read this brief from Elizabeth Prelogar: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23.... If there is anyone else in the profession who writes this well, I have not encountered that person.

The general lack of any public speculation about Secretary of Labor candidates so far is interesting.

Logged in for the first time in over a year and saw I accrued 600+ new followers without doing anything. Is this just the benefit of being an early adopter?

An important analysis of the UPS contract by Sam Gindin (of CAW fame) that can’t be brushed aside. Has me reevaluating some of my priors. https://jacobin.com/2023/08/ups-teamsters-part-time-workers-agreement-strike-ratification-strategy

Inspired to finally take this off the bookshelf after watching Oppenheimer. It is enthralling. Do I dare take this on the plane?

Warms my heart to see fellow civil servants pioneering great scholarship in administrative law. Really enjoying the recent work of @beaubaumann.bsky.social: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2023/04/Baumann-Final-PDF.pdf

Annoying labor law takes go here (until my employer finds me)