Unions lose some more
Here are the headlines for my last five writeups of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual accounting of union density: Union density: yet another low (2020) Pandemic boosts union density (2021) Union membership resumes its fall (2022) Union density keeps falling (2023) Unions had a flat 2023 (2024). It’s not hard to detect a theme here: near-relentless decline. The only recent up year was 2021, which came about because more nonunion workers lost their jobs than union workers during the worst months of the pandemic, raising the density numbers. (Density is the… Read More
The Gaza ceasefire: an interview with Mouin Rabbani
This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview that I did with Mouin Rabbani on the January 23, 2025, edition of Behind the News. Rabbani is a journalist and analyst with a deep understanding of the Middle East. He has served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. He is the co-editor of Jadaliyya, an ezine that covers the region, where he also hosts its Connections podcast. I asked Rabbani to comment on… Read More
LBO News from Doug Henwood 