John Funiciello

Union busters are set to come out of the woodwork over consideration by the U.S. Senate of the Employee Free Choice Act, the law that would make it a little easier for Americans to organize unions in their workplaces. Already, the section of EFCA that had Corporate America and the right wing in an uproar,…

Observers of our times in the past several years have said that, if we’re not careful, corporations will rule the world. Most Americans, including the economics experts, don’t know that many, if not most, of the corporations and their managerial leaders believe that they really do rule the world. If our economic experts know, they’re…

We’re in an era of national security that started a few decades ago and has progressed full-speed throughout the country. Now, it’s reached down into the cities and suburbs – municipal security. Soon, it will be complete. Citizens will not be able to walk down a street or do a simple business transaction without being…

In a move that’s in the finest tradition of worker solidarity, some 900 members of Unite Here Local 1 demonstrated last week outside Chicago’s Park Hyatt Hotel in support of 98 workers who were fired recently from three Boston-area Hyatt Hotels so they could be replaced by lower-wage workers. There were some 200 arrests of…

When the Soviet Union collapsed a few decades ago, there was virtual celebration in the streets and Americans claimed victory over the behemoth that seemed to pervade our every place and time for a half-century. In the minds of many, if not most Americans, there were communists everywhere: they were in the State Department, they…

For years – many years – I’ve been reminding people that, when we were young, trips to the doctor or the hospital were rare. You went when you were sick or injured or the doctor came to the house and picked a medication out of the little black bag and wrote how to take it…

American workers are in trouble. This past Labor Day, street reporters stuck microphones in front of union members and asked whether America’s union movement can survive this low point, and with union membership in the private sector at somewhere around eight percent, it would be easy to say that the movement is done and can’t…

Many Americans were beginning to wonder how long it would take for Canadians to reply to the smears and misinformation – and outright lies – about their single-payer health care system in what has passed for debate among politicians and the people about changing America’s health insurance industry to one that serves all of the…