Labor guy in higher ed. Contributor: @inthesetimesmag, @theprospect. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (@monthly_review). Slightly acerbic.
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Jacobin speaks with historian and former labor organizer Shaun Richman (@Ess_Dog) about his new book, “We Always Had a Union,” which traces the story of the powerful New York hotel workers’ union through the early 20th century: jacobin.com/2026/04/communis…
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Shaun Richman's WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: New York’s Hotel Workers Union, 1912–1953 was featured in Jacobin.
jacobin.com/2025/07/hotel-wo…
cc: @Ess_Dog
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The history of anti-communist purges in New York’s hotel workers’ union provides a lesson in how socialists can both gain and lose influence within the labor movement. jacobin.com/2025/07/hotel-wo…
Shaun Richman retweeted
On tonight's show @BenBurgis interviews @Ess_Dog about his book "We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953." Before that Ben debunks the latest anti-Zohran smears. More JBP madness in the postgame for patrons. All starts at 8 ET!
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Shaun Richman retweeted
Shaun Richman (@Ess_dog), labor historian, professor and author, joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss his new book "We Always Had a Union: The Story of the New York Hotel Workers Union, 1912-1953." @IllinoisPress awf.labortools.com/listen/sh…
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ALL OF THIS
You really can't explain the rise of the CIO, and the subsequent union member surge in both the CIO and AFL without this
This point is eluded to in
@Ess_Dog wonderful new book “We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953”
Shaun Richman retweeted
Happy Pub Date to WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953 by @Ess_Dog (@inthesetimesmag; @theprospect)!
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#AmericanHistory #LaborStudies #ReadUP #AmReading #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress
Shaun Richman retweeted
Check out this piece in the @NYDailyNews from @Ess_Dog, author of WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION:
The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953
press.uillinois.edu/books/?i…
Give Mayor Adams a no confidence vote nydailynews.com/2025/02/18/g…
Shaun Richman retweeted
Wow! I never thought I'd be asked to write about The Nanny, crossing picket lines, and the tradition of strong Jewish union women, so I'm indebted to @Ess_Dog for making it happen. If you like TV and labor culture, look for solongdentalplan.com in 2026!
Shaun Richman retweeted
Shaun Richman (@Ess_Dog) is the author of the forthcoming book WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953
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Sabotage as a Tool of Solidarity. MY new piece for @inthesetimesmag inthesetimes.com/article/whe…
Shaun Richman retweeted
Look for more from @Ess_Dog, author of WE ALWAYS HAD A UNION: The New York Hotel Workers’ Union, 1912-1953 (go.illinois.edu/s25richman)
cc: @nyhtc @iww @unitehere @AFLCIO
Not to inject more doom-and-gloom, but (after a day or two of rest), we need to plan for the fact that they're going to overturn the National Labor Relations Act.
inthesetimes.com/article/sup…
Shaun Richman retweeted
.@Ess_Dog: "Assuming that the Supreme Court sticks to its cowardly practice of dumping its most unpopular decisions in the last week of the term in which it hears arguments, we have twenty months until the NLRB is shut down." jacobin.com/2024/10/nlra-sup… #UnitedStates
Shaun Richman retweeted
With a number of cases now working their way through US courts, the Right is hoping the Supreme Court will scrap central elements of labor law. Unions need to prepare for this outcome, which would create a very different strategic terrain for labor. jacobin.com/2024/10/nlra-sup…
Shaun Richman retweeted
"The Right Believes It Has the Supreme Court Votes to Overturn Labor Law. Unions need to plan a response now."
— @Ess_Dog via @inthesetimes
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Shaun Richman retweeted
“But, if no union activity is protected because the NLRB ceases to exist, then all union tactics are potentially valid, or at least morally defensible, as long as unions are ready to fight back proportionally.”
If they want war, then war it shall be. Welcome back to the jungle
I'm going out on a short, sturdy limb to predict that the Supreme Court is going to overturn the National Labor Relations Act. For @inthesetimesmag
inthesetimes.com/article/sup…
Shaun Richman retweeted
Fellow UUP member @Ess_Dog : "it’s likely that one or more circuit courts will rule the NLRB either partially or totally unconstitutional within the next six months, potentially putting an appeal on the Supreme Court docket as soon as October 2025."
I'm going out on a short, sturdy limb to predict that the Supreme Court is going to overturn the National Labor Relations Act. For @inthesetimesmag
inthesetimes.com/article/sup…
Shaun Richman retweeted
“It took the courts roughly thirty years to take workers out of a legal environment where union organizing was a fully enforceable right to one where certification elections are conducted under manifestly crooked rules.” —@Ess_Dog go.nybooks.com/3ApuhTL
Shaun Richman retweeted
“The National Labor Relations Act, which Congress passed in 1935 to protect workers’ right to form unions and bargain collectively, may no longer be adequate to that task in a court system that…is especially conservative today.” —@Ess_Dog go.nybooks.com/4dHUAms
Shaun Richman retweeted
“It took the courts roughly thirty years to take workers out of a legal environment where union organizing was a fully enforceable right to one where certification elections are conducted under manifestly crooked rules.” —@Ess_Dog go.nybooks.com/3ApuhTL
Shaun Richman retweeted
“The National Labor Relations Act, which Congress passed in 1935 to protect workers’ right to form unions and bargain collectively, may no longer be adequate to that task in a court system that…is especially conservative today.” —@Ess_Dog go.nybooks.com/4dHUAms