Metro New York Labor Communications Council

03/07/2026

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01/19/2026

Thanks to Matt Alley for a thoughtful review of this great labor story, it couldn't be more timely.

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12/20/2025

Thank you, Portside, for posting Kurt Stand's insightful review of this gritty labor story.
https://portside.org/2025-12-18/shipyard-unionism-novel-triumphs-and-defeats-review-goliath-sunset-jonathan-brandow?fbclid=IwY2xjawOzgiZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEem2KhnhHYwSwTQBTNcU9E4DGMat189nbpwPMHkXHI_gVmnZT3gcY_hFw-XaQ_aem_-ooz7UUvBZ1gR4sDiWU_KQ

“Here’s what’s wrong in this yard. Two white welders get fired and blackmailed into silence for their jobs. A third one, black, with an unblemished record, is fired for the same supposed offense and the company refuses to budge.” “Ain’t right!” someone called. “But not one of the thr...

12/02/2025

Thank you, Mike Matejka and Bloomington-Normal Trades for this insightful review of Goliath at Sunset!

Goliath at SunsetBy Jonathan BrandowHardball Press, 2025

09/08/2025

Years ago we proudly discussed at NY Metro Labor returning the Stock Transfer Tax. Never been a better time.

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07/25/2025

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07/11/2025

Insightful reflection on Music "providing an antidote to despair." Thank you, Portside and Kurt Stand.

We live in an era in which, from the White House on down, meanness has become normalized, disrespect has gained respectability, become normalized. It is a climate that feeds on itself, a climate the inhibits our ability to envision a different kind of world, inhibits our ability to act together to m...