You won’t find many (if any) labor-side writers linking to, much less complimenting, any management-side writer these days.   Our world is just too polarized.  

Admittedly, I’ve taken a few shots as some of the new, arrogant-seeming breed of writers generating union-side articles on the Employee Free Choice Act.  Maybe it’s been fair, maybe it hasn’t.  It just seems to me that they really don’t know much about labor policy.

But Nathan Newman is no lightweight labor advocate.   As his bio on the website TPM Café states:

Nathan Newman is a lawyer, policy analyst and longtime labor activist, having started as a union organizer twenty years ago and has since worked as a policy researcher and labor lawyer. Currently, he is Policy Director for the Progressive States Network, a nonprofit that supports state legislative  campaigns for economic and social justice.

Newman has a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC-Berkeley and a law degree from Yale Law School and has been published in a range of academic and popular journals, including Working USA, The American Prospect, the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, MIT's Technology Review and he is a regular columnist for the Progressive Populist. He is also the author of the 2002 book, Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits and the Costs to Community. His own long-established blog is at http://www.nathannewman.org/log/ . . .

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