Ted Fertik is vice president for manufacturing and industrial policy at the BlueGreen Alliance, a national coalition of labor unions and environmental organizations. Previously he was research and policy lead at the Working Families Party.
Last week, Trump signed executive orders targeting Biden-era green infrastructure spending. Republican politicians, whose states have benefitted from these policies, will now have to decide whether they care more about austerity or a manufacturing renewal.
President Joe Biden has proclaimed a break with the economic orthodoxy of recent decades in favor of what he calls “Bidenomics.” But how real is Biden’s break with neoliberalism?
New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s minimum-wage and paid-leave concessions are signs he feels threatened from the left.
SEIU’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton displays the same shortsightedness that has contributed to labor’s decline.
The death of unions as we know them could mean the end of the labor movement itself.
Before writing off the Working Families Party’s Cuomo endorsement as yet another capitulation, consider the concessions wrung out of him.
With next week’s gubernatorial endorsement, we may finally reach the limits of the Working Families Party’s “inside-outside” strategy.