Labor in the News

"The real problem is not government but the Minneapolis taxi industry's use of a particular regulation for its own private profit," wrote AFSCME Council 26 Executive Director - and former taxi driver - Carl Goldman in a June 5 response to Washington Post columnist George Will. "Business is not democratic; neither is the 'invisible' hand of the market. Regulation legislated by a city council or another elected body can provide important protections while allowing citizens to change economic policies that are not working anymore. That's democracy."