Nelson Lichtenstein Journalist Profile

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Legalized Murder

Dec 6, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Charles Taylor |Suzanne Kahn |Lyra Walsh Fuchs |Nelson Lichtenstein

Legalized Murder If the motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is the denial of coverage for essential medical services, what does it say that there could be tens of millions of suspects?
There Is No Such Thing as Spontaneous Worker Organizing

Sep 11, 2024 | znetwork.org | Nelson Lichtenstein |Benjamin Fong

This engaging interview with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein sheds light on the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and its enduring impact on American labor. Lichtenstein delves into the CIO’s formation, its breakthrough in organizing industrial workers, and the role of key figures like John L. Lewis and Walter Reuther.
There Is No Such Thing as Spontaneous Worker Organizing

Sep 10, 2024 | jacobin.com | Nelson Lichtenstein

Interview by Benjamin Y. Fong This engaging interview with labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein sheds light on the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and its enduring impact on American labor. Lichtenstein delves into the CIO’s formation, its breakthrough in organizing industrial workers, and the role of key figures like John L. Lewis and Walter Reuther.
A Grand Old Party for Workers?

Jul 18, 2024 | prospect.org | Nelson Lichtenstein

As they assemble in Milwaukee, are the MAGA Republicans taking seriously their newly minted pro-worker rhetoric? The GOP platform announces itself with an almost Rooseveltian flourish, dedicating the party “To the Forgotten Men and Women of America.” That’s a nice touch, but when it comes to actual worker welfare issues, the new GOP platform emphasizes, overwhelmingly, immigration restriction, often in the most racist fashion, as well as raising obstacles to trade with China.
Meyerson on TAP: Would J.D. Vance Join a UAW Picket Line Outside a Tesla Factory?

Jul 18, 2024 | americanprospect.bluelena.io | Maureen Tkacik |Nelson Lichtenstein |Robert Kuttner

The Assassin Amid the Undesirables On the abiding despair of the failed Trump assassin’s post-COVID, private equity–looted nursing home BY MAUREEN TKACIK A Grand Old Party for Workers? How corporate conservatism trumps MAGA gestures on behalf of the working class BY NELSON LICHTENSTEIN Biden’s Virtual Roll Call Strategy There is no good reason for it to deter the movement to replace Biden as nominee.
The Labor Intellectuals

May 30, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Nelson Lichtenstein |Daniel Boguslaw |Samuel R. Bagenstos |Amy Dru Stanley

The Labor Intellectuals The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture. &squarf; Spring 2024 After visiting the United Auto Workers convention in Atlantic City in 1947, C.
B-24 Bombers Often Targeted Working-Class Civilians

May 2, 2024 | jacobin.com | Nelson Lichtenstein

The United Automobile Workers (UAW) has begun to sell a new set of tee shirts and hoodies, easily purchased by heading to the union website. On the back of the T-shirt is the classic UAW wheel logo with the phrase “The Working Class is the Arsenal of Democracy” curving around top and bottom. On some shirts, on the front, there is also a small drawing of a B-24 bomber a few inches below the right shoulder. The word “Liberator” is just below the plane.
Where Militant Unionists Come to Plan

Apr 28, 2024 | znetwork.org | Nelson Lichtenstein

The 3-to-1 victory of the United Automobile Workers in a National Labor Relations Board election at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory last Friday has been the big news on the labor front. For the first time in decades, a Deep South auto plant has been organized, with over 4,200 production workers soon to be covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
Where Militant Unionists Come To Plan

Apr 27, 2024 | portside.org | Nelson Lichtenstein

Where Militant Unionists Come To Plan Published April 27, 2024 The 3-to-1 victory of the United Automobile Workers in a National Labor Relations Board election at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory last Friday has been the big news on the labor front. For the first time in decades, a Deep South auto plant has been organized, with over 4,200 production workers soon to be covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
Where Militant Unionists Come to Plan

Apr 25, 2024 | prospect.org | Nelson Lichtenstein

The 3-to-1 victory of the United Automobile Workers in a National Labor Relations Board election at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory last Friday has been the big news on the labor front. For the first time in decades, a Deep South auto plant has been organized, with over 4,200 production workers soon to be covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.