The railroad workers decided to take their dispute to court, not Geoghegan. He was a means to their ends.
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Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein, a former InTheseTimes.com political reporter, is a freelance investigative journalist in New York City. Her work has appeared in Salon.com, Slate.com, AlterNet.org, The New York Press, The Washington Independent, RH Reality Check and other news outlets.
Beyerstein writes a daily foreign affairs bulletin for the UN Foundation’s UN Dispatch website and covers healthcare for the Media Consortium. She is the winner of a 2009 Project Censored Award and blogs at Majikthise. She can be reached at frege@mac.com.
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Lindsay traveled to Boston to earn a Master’s Degree in philosophy from Tufts University. After graduating from Tufts, Lindsay moved to New York City where she briefly worked in pharmaceutical advertising and started her blog Majikthise.
Majikthise was initially conceived as an amalgam of analytic philosophy and liberal politics. However, the politics gradually eclipsed the philosophy as Lindsay spent more and more of her time chronicling the abuses of the Bush administration. Eventually, Majikthise began supplementing her opinion writing with original reporting.
In 2005, Lindsay traveled to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Later that year, her blog readers funded her live coverage of Tom DeLay’s first court appearance in Austin, Texas on money laundering charges. Other major stories she has covered include the New York Transit Strike and the closing days of the Allen/Webb senate race in Virginia in the 2006 midterm elections.
In 2006 Lindsay quit her day job in advertising to pursue journalism full-time. She joined the investigative team at Raw Story as a national correspondent specializing in labor, immigration, and crime issues, and worked as a metro reporter for Chelsea Now.
Lindsay lectures regularly on blogging and journalism. In April 2007, she delivered the Richardson Memorial Lecture at the University of Gettysburg on the relationship between objectivity and journalism. She has also spoken to the National Organization for Women, the Center for American Progress, and other groups.
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‘Friendly’ Commonwealth Games Not So Friendly to Workers
By Lindsay Beyerstein Forty-three workers have been killed on Commonwealth Games projects in Delhi, India, according to a… more
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On Eve of Election, Britain’s Labor Party Takes on Labor
By Lindsay Beyerstein British Airways cabin crews say they will hold two weekend strikes totaling seven days later… more
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Republican Senators Crusade Against a FedEx Union
By Lindsay Beyerstein Two Republican senators from Tennesse are doing a big favor for a big company from… more
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The Socialist Roots of International Women’s Day
By Lindsay Beyerstein Today, as the world marks the 99th annual International Women's Day, it's clear that the… more
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Labor Unrest Roils Global Aviation Industry
By Lindsay Beyerstein Labor unrest is spreading in the global aviation industry. On Tuesday, the union that represents… more
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Greek Government Ignores Strikers, Listens to EU as Crisis Mounts
By Lindsay Beyerstein Last Wednesday, public and private sector workers in Greece walked off the job for the… more
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I'm not trying to negate your point. Of course the class struggle is won or lost on the job. That said, railway workers in the U.S. face unique obstacles to workplace democracy--like not being allowed to strike. So, if they're going to democratize their workplaces, they need to carve out a legal space to do so. Or, at least their leadership thinks they do, hence the lawsuit. It makes tactical sense. It's harder to have a democratic workplace when the boss can drag you into an unaccountable kangaroo court.
Posted to Supreme Court Hands Major Victory to Rail Workers—and Labor Lawyer Geoghegan
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Bernard, I'd really like to read your analysis. When I click on the link, it takes me to a page with the right headline, but no body text.
Posted to Steelworkers Partner With World’s Largest Worker-Owned Co-Op
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Good advice, Frank. Thanks for your comment. Trumka and Gerard seem to think that they can make common cause with some employers on some issues. I think we have to judge these alliances on a case-by-case basis. The best example is the steel industry. No steel mills, no steel workers. In order to have steel mills you need at least two things: 1) Capital investment to build them and 2) a manufacturing/trade policy that makes American steel competitive. At this point, only the U.S. government can provide both of those things, but only if it is subjected to massive pressure. Both …
Posted to DC Dispatch: Progressive Ideas in Air at ‘Making it America’ Meeting
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Correction: associate general counsel for the AFL-CIO and SEIU. Thanks.
Posted to McCain Slaps Hold on Crucial Pro-Labor NLRB Nominee
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