Op-Eds & Columns

The Real Reason for the Decline of American Unions

Kris Warner
Echoes (Bloomberg View), January 23, 2013

Michigan Republicans Deny Police Officers and Firefighters the Right to Work

Dean Baker
Truthout, December 17, 2012

Tax Policy Not the Root of U.S. Economic Problem

Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), September 25, 2012

Economic Growth Isn’t About ‘Makers’ vs. ‘Takers’

Dean Baker
Yahoo! Finance, September 19, 2012

Chicago School Teachers Give Us All a Lesson

Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, September 17, 2012

Canada Proves the Decline of Unions is Not Inevitable

Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, September 3, 2012

Report Gives New Insight in the Decline of the Middle Class

Eileen Appelbaum
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), August 25, 2012

Technology and Inequality: The Happy Myth
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, July 16, 2012

Getting Labor Unions to the Adult Table: Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, March 13, 2012

Do Progressives Have to Be Loser Liberals?
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, January 24, 2012

Occupy Wall Street Gets What the 'Very Serious People' Have Missed for 30 Years
John Schmitt
AlterNet, October 6, 2011

Union Maid Does in Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Next President of France
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, May 24, 2011

The Key to Rebuilding Workers’ Power: Unrig the Rules
Dean Baker
Truthout, March 14, 2011

Wisconsin Continues Right-Wing Structural Reforms That Have Transformed the United States
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, March 10, 2011
En Español

Our Economic Pain Is Coming from Big Industry CEOs, Not Public Employees' Unions
John Schmitt
AlterNet, February 23, 2011

Greenspan’s Incompetence Badgers Wisconsin’s Workers
Dean Baker
Truthout, February 20, 2011

Unions and Unemployment: The Battle Over the Employee Free Choice Act Gets Ugly
Dean Baker
TPMCafé (Talking Points Memo), March 13, 2009

Unions: Ensuring Social Justice for African Americans
John Schmitt and Dean Baker
AFL-CIO Point of View, April 2, 2008

Unions Improve Jobs at the Bottom
John Schmitt and Shawn Fremstad
Policy Innovations, November 29, 2007

The Right to Unionize: Key to Democracy
Dean Baker
Truthout, August 27, 2007

Union Busting is Big Business
John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer
Topeka Capital Journal, July 6, 2007

Verizon Workers Defend the Right to Organize
Mark Weisbrot
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services, Aug. 15, 2000