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Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934–1941; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice; and the author of ‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty Other Myths About Unions. Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio, and the Web.

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Pope, Bruno, and Kellman lay out the case for how organized labor is being strangled by existing labor laws and employer repression. One of their principle concerns is to reform the system...
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Sober-minded observers cannot dispute Stephen Lerner’s analysis of the state of the US labor movement, and the deep crisis into which it has fallen. Lerner offers several prescriptions for its renaissance including...
Bill Fletcher, Jr.

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