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Bill Fletcher Jr.

Bill Fletcher Jr.

About Bill Fletcher Jr.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a long-time trade union activist and writer. He is the co-author of Solidarity Divided and They’re Bankrupting Us!: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions. He can be followed @BillFletcherJr and at www.billfletcherjr.com.

Janus v AFSCME:

February 24, 2018 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

What the Supreme Court May Strip from Workers The roar of the approaching storm can be both heard and felt in workplaces across the United States. The prospects inherent in a much anticipated – and in many places feared – Supreme Court decision in the case Janus v AFSCME has the political Right giddy. Among […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class prejudice, Classism, Classism in Politics, Classist Corporations, Corporate power, Labor movement, Politics and Class, Workplace classism Tagged With: blaming the victim, labor law, low-wage jobs, privilege, teachers unions, union-bashing

Trump One Year Later: Most of Us Live in Dread

January 29, 2018 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

I had a discussion with my doctor late spring 2017. I was having gastrointestinal issues, and I said to him that I kept wondering whether the anxiety that I felt about the Trump regime was affecting me physically. My doctor responded very seriously and with a straight face. He replied that many of his patients […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Classism, Classism in Politics, Classism in the Economy, Dismantlng Classism, Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: activism, budget cuts, bullying, classism, community organizing, owning class, super-rich, tax cuts, union-bashing, working class

Brexit:  Race and Class 

July 7, 2016 by Bill Fletcher Jr. 1 Comment

I had very mixed emotions about the Brexit vote. Having watched the manner in which the European Union strangled Greece, I have not been very sanguine about the EU as a project. The guiding vision of the EU is neo-liberal globalization. And it is determined to impose this on the continent. At the same time, […]

Filed Under: Class cultures, Classism in Politics, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: blaming the victim, class cultures, classism, immigrants, race adn calss, race and class, racism, union-bashing, working class

SCOTUS: Public Sector Unions Safe for Now

March 30, 2016 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it was deadlocked in the case of Friedrichs v California Teachers Association (representing 325,000 teachers in 1,000 school districts). The 4-4 vote, for now, leaves undisturbed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which found itself bound by a prior SCOTUS precedent upholding a system […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Building Economic Alternatives, Classism in Politics, Labor movement, Politics and Class Tagged With: labor law, public sector, public sector unions, Supreme Court, union-bashing, unions

Where is labor on Labor Day 2014?

August 29, 2014 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

With every passing year, Labor Days becomes increasingly surreal. Labor, as a movement, receives decreasing attention and, to the extent to which Labor Day is acknowledged, it tends to be in the context of work alone. This may sound strange except when you remember that both the original Labor Day—May 1st—as well as the US-constructed […]

Filed Under: Labor movement Tagged With: activism, Labor Day, movement building, unions, working class

Responding to Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision

June 24, 2013 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

My first response to the Supreme Court’s decision in the University of Texas case was to breathe a sigh of relief.  I had been expecting affirmative action to be ruled illegal.  Instead the Court, in effect, said that the University had to prove that non-racial methods were ineffective in creating greater diversity. We should, however, […]

Filed Under: Race and Class Tagged With: affirmative action, blaming the victim, race and class, racism, unemployment

Race & Class & November 6

November 9, 2012 by Bill Fletcher Jr. 7 Comments

On the one hand, it is difficult to believe that Romney did not win.  After all, when you think about it, we are in the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression.  He certainly kept repeating the fact that there are 23 million people out of work.  Yet at the end of the day Obama […]

Filed Under: Politics and Class, Race and Class Tagged With: rainbow coalition, white working class

The Occupy Together Movement: 5 Points, for Your Consideration

November 3, 2011 by Bill Fletcher Jr. Leave a Comment

The Occupy Together Movement, starting with Occupy Wall Street, has been, in the words of an old television commercial, ‘simply marvelous’.  This is an exciting, energizing repudiation of the politics of economic injustice.  For this reason alone the movement needs the support of those of us on the left-side of the aisle.  Yes, there are […]

Filed Under: #Occupy

Modern-day Pirates: the Republicans vs. the Public Sector

February 21, 2011 by Bill Fletcher Jr. 1 Comment

So, let’s be clear:  it’s not about the budget.  As the facts have emerged in the 2011 Wisconsin crisis with Governor Scott Walker’s move against public service unions, it is not about Wisconsin lacking funds.  There is no credible way that Walker and his clique can argue that eliminating a worker’s right to collective bargaining […]

Filed Under: Classism in the Economy, Politics and Class Tagged With: budget cuts, public services, Republicans, teachers unions, union-bashing

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