Shaun Richman
@shaunrichman.org
Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.
The literature is unbalanced. That was readily apparent when researching "We Always Had a Union."
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The literature is unbalanced. That was readily apparent when researching "We Always Had a Union."
Hey now! The book is pretty good (although SUNY Press allowed a regrettable number of typos in those days), and the author makes a good case for Green as a consensus-based leader. If only he had smarter/better VPs!
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hey now! The book is pretty good (although SUNY Press allowed a regrettable number of typos in those days), and the author makes a good case for Green as a consensus-based leader. If only he had smarter/better VPs!
Oh, puh-leeze. She’s okay-acting at being annoyed at mom. The love shines through in those eyes (and that smartass smirk).
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Oh, puh-leeze. She’s okay-acting at being annoyed at mom. The love shines through in those eyes (and that smartass smirk).
Are those the berries that get them drunk?
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Are those the berries that get them drunk?
NYC's hotel workers fought decades for a union. They were IWW anarchists, early joiners of the CP, fought the mob (a couple times), forged a system of industrial democracy and somehow survived the Red Scare.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
We Always Had a Union
www.press.uillinois.edu
December 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
NYC's hotel workers fought decades for a union. They were IWW anarchists, early joiners of the CP, fought the mob (a couple times), forged a system of industrial democracy and somehow survived the Red Scare.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Yeah. A think tank white paper, an op-ed by a prominent artist/celeb, a branded campaign by a coalition of existing NGOs.
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yeah. A think tank white paper, an op-ed by a prominent artist/celeb, a branded campaign by a coalition of existing NGOs.
I think the problem is deeper. We are so awash in propaganda, and most of us can't remember a time before the 1996 Telecom Act and Reagan ending "equal time," that it has dropped off the radar of even the lefties as something we should be demanding. It's accepted as the rigged rules of the system.
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I think the problem is deeper. We are so awash in propaganda, and most of us can't remember a time before the 1996 Telecom Act and Reagan ending "equal time," that it has dropped off the radar of even the lefties as something we should be demanding. It's accepted as the rigged rules of the system.
I'm talking about this being high on the agenda of a democratic administration; with the same fierce urgency that Trump went after ABC.
So our leverage begins with pressuring lame-o Dems to see this fight as an existential matter.
So our leverage begins with pressuring lame-o Dems to see this fight as an existential matter.
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I'm talking about this being high on the agenda of a democratic administration; with the same fierce urgency that Trump went after ABC.
So our leverage begins with pressuring lame-o Dems to see this fight as an existential matter.
So our leverage begins with pressuring lame-o Dems to see this fight as an existential matter.
Part of the solution is converting 50% of broadcasting licenses to non-commercial, chipping away at CBS, NBC, ABC and Clear Channel and creating 2-3 new public broadcasting networks.
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Part of the solution is converting 50% of broadcasting licenses to non-commercial, chipping away at CBS, NBC, ABC and Clear Channel and creating 2-3 new public broadcasting networks.
Another argument in favor of buying and saving DVDs.
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Another argument in favor of buying and saving DVDs.
I'm sort of amazed that the World Cup hasn't been relocated yet.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I'm sort of amazed that the World Cup hasn't been relocated yet.
I'm also a little bit of a softie. I only give zeroes if the student handed nothing in. Effort receives at least partial credit.
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I'm also a little bit of a softie. I only give zeroes if the student handed nothing in. Effort receives at least partial credit.
It's bad that I would have given the student a few points of partial credit for her D- paper, mainly in self-defense and anticipation of a weaponized grievance. A 5 (out of 25) makes whoever is assigned to give the complaint a cursory look think, "if anything he was TOO generous."
OU student says essay grade was a violation of her rights. Read the essay
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December 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The era of forcing the musical guest to "sit in with the band" has a bad rap, but this is a gem that wouldn't have occurred without that old-fashioned convention.
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The era of forcing the musical guest to "sit in with the band" has a bad rap, but this is a gem that wouldn't have occurred without that old-fashioned convention.