What Unions No Longer Do author Jake Rosenfeld takes a look at the complex interplay between immigration and unions: “The history of the American labor movement is at once a story of inclusion and upward assimilation of previously marginalized groups, and of xenophobic and discriminatory tendencies.”
Labor writer and thinker Rich Yeselson responds: “In the last 15 years, however, unions, even many of the most parochial, have increasingly supported immigration reform in large part because, like SEIU, they view Mexican, Caribbean, and Central American immigrants as good organizing possibilities.”
Join Rosenfeld and Yeselson, as well as Sarah Jafee and MSNBC’s Ned Resnikoff for a live chat (sub. req.) today at noon.
Today at TPM Cafe, Emily Martin of the National Women’s Law Center and Jennifer C. Pizer of Lambda Legal take on the contraception cases before the Supreme Court — and how they could expand the idea of Arizona’s anti-LGBT bill: “the owners of these corporations are asking the Supreme Court to interpret federal law so that it provides a key aspect of what the Arizona bill would have provided.”
The local news anchor who made waves for an epic blunder at the White House this week has released yet another statement changing her story about whether reporters are asked to submit questions to press secretary in advance.
Chris Christie likes to brag about how no one at his town halls has even mentioned the BridgeGate scandal since it broke wide open earlier this year. Well, that changed today.
Tucker Carlson finally agrees to say something more about his reporter’s disgusting tweets. Sort of.
The local news anchor who became an unwitting conservative hero when she said earlier this week that White House reporters give their questions to press secretary Jay Carney in advance has now retracted her claim. She said she didn’t take notes when talking to Carney “off the record,” and it sounds like she was generally confused all around. TPM’s Tom Kludt has the details.
Apparently New Jersey State Police have been taking photographs of protestors at Gov. Chris Christie’s town halls recently. Now the state attorney general, a Christie appointee, has told them to knock it off.
Michigan Rep. Gary Peters (D) is angry that the National Right To Life has said he wants to ensure “abortion is accessible and cheap for his daughters.”
Sahil Kapur tells you everything you need to know about the birth control cases (including that there are two!) headed to the Supreme Court on Tuesday but were too afraid to ask.
Republican voters in North Carolina get to pick between the guy who claimed he went to the University of Maryland but actually went to an online-only night school or the guy who says Obamacare is part of a liberal Agenda 21 conspiracy to control everyone’s life. Good luck with that.