Union Election Season Coming

Another local election season is fast approaching for members of Local 384. Already, there are 3 slates (or at least partial slates) lining up for this year’s executive board election.
As per past practice, I won’t use this site to endorse a slate for the upcoming election, but hopefully there will be plenty of opportunity for […]

Union Poetry: Picture of a Backward Worker

Willard Plumerson was dead before his time
but he was born again
in a burst of economic paranoia
heaven and white skin privilege
holding more promise
than his sliding stock quotations
he kept busy
scurrying to the foreman’s office
to tattle on other workers’ toilet activities
in between cutting train axles
on an engine lathe he called his own
for over forty years
Willard made few friends
with […]