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Full Employment: A Solution for the Job Blackmail Problem

The progressive movement lost an important figure on November 22, 2011, when Richard Grossman died. Over four decades, he founded Environmentalists for Full Employment, served as an Executive Director of Greenpeace, and brought attention to corporate rule and how a mass people’s movement could organize and work to end that rule. I’ve read that he was working with Occupy Wall Street in the months before his death, providing guidance and advice. I never met Richard Grossman, but he and his co-author Richard Kazis provided the labor, health and safety, and environmental movements with a valuable book, Fear at Work: Job Blackmail, Labor and the Environment. In the book, Kazis and Grossman advanced the concept of job blackmail—the capacity of corporations and their government allies to use the threat of job loss to hold hostage those of us who demand equality, democracy, healthy and safe work, and protection of the environment and ecosystems upon which our lives depend. They state in the introduction to the 1991 edition of the book that “. . . industry’s wildly inflated warnings of job loss have never been justified. There is no evidence that existing environmental and occupational health protections have had a harmful impact on economic performance” [1, p. ix]. After 20 years, this continues to be true. Making the case for government protections for employment security, health and safety, and the environment, Kazis and Grossman underscored the “economic disruption and environmental damage” wrought large by the corporate sector. They note that: