Editor’s Note: The following remarks were delivered at the APSCUF Legislative Assembly on February 8, 2013 in Gettysburg, PA. Glenn Richardson is an APSCUF-KU delegate and the Chair of APSCUF’s Legislative Committee. Good Afternoon APSCUF! It is always an honor…
The Occupy Wall Street movement has trained the nation’s and the world’s attention on the stark disparity of wealth and privilege that has come to characterize the early 21st century. Yet that inequity has been incubated over the course of…
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The ascendancy of militant Republican majorities across the nation following the 2010 midterm elections has produced an onslaught of legislative initiatives advancing corporate interests by dismembering voting rights, workers’ rights, civil rights, environmental protection and the public sector. The size…
By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed levels of production. Those who today attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them. Dr. Martin Luther King,…
