October 12, 1990 By Tim Costello & Jeremy Brecher It’s been a great deal for employers. Since 1973, real weekly wages have fallen by 15 percent, and to compensate, American families today are working between one and two days a week more, just to maintain the same family incomes they had in 1973…. Read More »
CONNECTICUT Q & A: JEREMY BRECHER: The History of ‘Everyday People’
April 15, 1990 By Andi Rierden Jeremy Brecher is working to fill in some large gaps of Connecticut history. For 10 years now, the social historian has traveled across the state collecting oral histories from people who rarely appear in history books, including local ethnic pioneers and former labor union organizers. As the… Read More »
REFORMING LABOR LAW, REFORMING LABOR
November 12, 1989 By Tim Costello & Jeremy Brecher The arena was a National Labor Relations Board election in Smyrna, Tennessee One contestant, representing multi-national capital, was the Nisson corporation. The other, representing the American labor movement, was the UAW. The result this June was a smashing defeat for the union. This highly symbolic… Read More »
UNCONTROLLED GROWTH THREATEN CONNECTICUT’S WOODED HILLSIDES
February 12, 1989 I live in a small town nestled in the hills of northwestern Connecticut. Thousands of people come here from around the world to canoe on the Housatonic River, walk in the Cathedral Pines, hunt and fish in the Housatonic Meadows State Park or just take in the beauty of the autumn… Read More »