More than any other columnist for a major U.S. newspaper, Meyerson provided ongoing coverage and incisive analysis of the nation‘s labor movement and other progressive causes as well as the changing economy and the increasing aggressiveness of big business in American politics. He was one of the few columnists in the country who knew labor leaders and grassroots activists by name, and who could write sympathetically and knowledgeably about working people‘s experiences in their workplaces and communities.

Since Steve Greenhouse retired last year as the New York Times‘ brilliant labor reporter, no other major paper has a reporter who covers unions and working people on a full-time basis. Now with Meyerson‘s firing, there‘s not one weekly columnist who understands the ins and outs of organized (and disorganized) labor.