Over the past decade, union officials have scored a series of private-sector organizing victories in Texas, typically by using “top-down” tactics geared more toward sapping employers’ will to resist unionization than toward mobilizing employee support. Keeping unionism voluntary is beneficial, but additional safeguards are now needed.
Running Dry: South Texas’ Water Crisis
Farmers slowly dig up their losses and face the unsettling reality that their parched dams, once a reliable water supply for irrigation, will not be replenished. These hardworking, multi-generational Texas farmers are no strangers to the ebbs and flows of the seasons. But when a crop that the Rio Grande Valley has depended on for...