Opinion: In This Economy, Every Day Should Be Labor Day
Posted on AllSides September 2nd, 2019
From The Left
OPINION
There’s a magical day that comes once each year when every news outlet publishes a story or two about workers and the labor movement. Then we all go to bed, wake up the next morning, and return to a world where unions and workers are hardly noticed at all.
The lack of attention paid to labor issues — the overwhelming majority of news outlets lack a single full-time labor reporter — has disastrous results, particularly for workers in the anti-union South. According to research by Central Iowa Media Studies Professor...