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- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
ZNet Article Will the U.S. join the rest of the world and guarantee workers paid sick leave? -
- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
ZNet Article American workers need jobs. They also need protection from chemicals and pollutants that threaten their lives, health, environment, climate, and future ZNet Article It was always implicit that some manufacturing might return to the U.S. if and when American unions were smashed and wages cut ZNet Article The explosion in Texas was far less newsworthy because it was a workplace accident and workplace accidents happen all the time -
- Monday, May 13, 2013
ZNet Article Becoming a worker-owned cooperative is the latest chapter in the saga of the workers of Republic Windows and Doors -
- Sunday, May 12, 2013
ZNet Article “We work too hard to be paid minimum wage” -
- Saturday, May 11, 2013
ZNet Article The most painful part of this tragedy is that it was completely preventable Commentary The workers who used to build windows at Republic Windows and Doors have bought the equipment from a cut-and-run owner -
- Thursday, May 09, 2013
ZNet Article A 40-day strike of more than 500 dockworkers at the Port of Hong Kong ended with a settlement that included a 9.8 percent wage increase -
- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
ZNet Article Essential public services are cut in order that the wealthy may pay less tax. But even their baubles don't make them happy -
- Tuesday, May 07, 2013
ZNet Article Members of the labor group OUR Walmart will send civil rights movement–style caravans of workers from around the country -
- Thursday, May 02, 2013
ZNet Article Long hours, short hours, or variable schedules don’t just make life miserable for the individual worker and her family. They also make it harder to take collective action -
- Wednesday, May 01, 2013
ZNet Article On April 28, 1971, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened its doors -
- Thursday, Apr 25, 2013
ZNet Article The truth is that corporations often show a brazen disregard for the safety of their employees—and nearby residents -
- Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013
ZNet Article What’s at stake here at Kaiser are foundational issues with ramifications for all of labor and for all us ZNet Article A report from West, Texas, on a deadly industrial "accident" -
- Monday, Apr 22, 2013
ZNet Article Interview with Sudha Bharadwaj, a lawyer and a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karkyakarta Committee) -
- Saturday, Apr 20, 2013
Commentary Direct action can be as simple as organizing five or 10 co-workers to march into the boss’s office to file a grievance or to demand a change in working conditions -
- Thursday, Apr 18, 2013
Commentary Thanks to capitalism the people who would have been labelled bullies in school are described as captains of industry in the adult world ZNet Article Fast food companies are not only unembarrassed about how they exploit their workers, but they actually seem to think they are doing their employees a favor -
- Saturday, Apr 13, 2013
ZNet Article Which way will 45,000 California healthcare workers swing? The answer has major implications for labor -
- Sunday, Apr 07, 2013
ZNet Article With about the same workforce, the plant is producing 50 percent more tires than before it was closed -
- Thursday, Apr 04, 2013
ZNet Article Workers in some 50 restaurants expected to walk off job, potentially shutting down several eateries today -
- Wednesday, Apr 03, 2013
ZNet Article Congress should finally extend to all Americans the basic right of unionization that Cesar Chavez spent his life seeking and defending -
- Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013
Commentary “Everyone has the pain and anger inside. “And we are going to be liberated tomorrow. It’s all going to explode.” ZNet Article I was impressed by the determination, spirit, and organization of these workers that, for more than a decade, have been battling the powerful food industry -
- Thursday, Mar 28, 2013
ZNet Article Nearly all sectors of the feminist movement figured out a long, long time ago that having it all is not an option in the absence of fundamental societal change ZNet Article The increased frequency and intensity of financial debacles has made the South, and especially the poor therein, more susceptible to the aftershocks of speculative-led accumulation -
- Thursday, Mar 21, 2013
ZNet Article Fresh from shoving his "Right to Work for Less" legislation down the throats of Michigan's workers, Governor Rick Snyder has grown bolder in pursuing a corporate agenda -
- Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013
Video Music video about the struggle of working people for dignity and the repression against the International Workers Of the World (IWW) - All Newest Labor
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- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
ZNet Article American workers need jobs. They also need protection from chemicals and pollutants that threaten their lives, health, environment, climate, and future ZNet Article It was always implicit that some manufacturing might return to the U.S. if and when American unions were smashed and wages cut -
- Saturday, May 11, 2013
ZNet Article The most painful part of this tragedy is that it was completely preventable -
- Tuesday, May 07, 2013
ZNet Article Members of the labor group OUR Walmart will send civil rights movement–style caravans of workers from around the country -
- Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013
ZNet Article What’s at stake here at Kaiser are foundational issues with ramifications for all of labor and for all us -
- Monday, Apr 22, 2013
ZNet Article Interview with Sudha Bharadwaj, a lawyer and a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karkyakarta Committee) -
- Saturday, Apr 13, 2013
ZNet Article Which way will 45,000 California healthcare workers swing? The answer has major implications for labor -
- Thursday, Apr 04, 2013
ZNet Article Workers in some 50 restaurants expected to walk off job, potentially shutting down several eateries today -
- Monday, Mar 18, 2013
ZNet Article An economistic, centally-planned, income-based developmental approach that doesn’t take into account the local needs and communities, at times leads to a situation in which “the numbers thrive but the people suffer -
- Sunday, Mar 10, 2013
ZNet Article Without the people, resources and experience with collective action that union members provide, any new democracy movement will be much weaker - All Featured ZNet Labor
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- Saturday, Oct 01, 2011
ZMag Article A four point plant for increased labor militancy -
- Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011
ZMag Article Remembering the Appalachian activist singer -
- Sunday, May 01, 2011
ZMag Article A new book by Steve Early on a divisive dispute in California ZMag Article Right-wing assaults and demonstrations of democracy ZMag Article Questions about identities and the way "forward" -
- Friday, Apr 01, 2011
ZMag Article Myths and realities behind government revenue shortfalls ZMag Article Governor Walker v. public sector workers and basic rights ZMag Article A U.S. labor representative visits post-revolution Cairo -
- Tuesday, Mar 01, 2011
ZMag Article Management dirty tricks and lies in labor dispute -
- Tuesday, Feb 01, 2011
ZMag Article Steelworkers confront CEO at Deficit Commission over lockout - All ZMag Labor
Featured ZMag Articles Fitz: 30-Hour Week?
Cutting back work time for leisure and the planet
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- Saturday, Dec 08, 2012
Blog Post Mayor Emanuel's latest O'Hare Airport janitorial contract seems to be coming with pinkie rings and tailored silk suits attached. Yes, City Hall is reaching out to the Outfit again, renewing a friendship with the Mob that dates back at least to May... -
- Friday, Oct 26, 2012
Blog Post Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) organizer Brandon Johnson, who is a black man, recently spoke about a conversation he had with veteran black educator Dr. Grady Jordan about racism in the schools today. Jordan told him, “Black teachers fought hard. T... -
- Thursday, Aug 30, 2012
Blog Post One of the symptoms of diabetes, which we hear so much about these days, as a consequence of the food crisis, is that people lose their limbs, which must then be cut off. First it may be just a toe, then a foot, then the lower leg, then the whole ... -
- Monday, Aug 13, 2012
Blog Post The free exchange of ideas is critical to representative government and was one of the reasons why the US Postal Service(USPS) was created. At its founding the Postal Service had a deliberate policy of subsidizing the mailing of newspapers and oth... -
- Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012
Blog Post The warehouses of Will County are only a part of a vast supply chain of exploited labor that begins in the 21st century of sweatshops of China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and other developing countries and then goes through the USA to ... -
- Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012
Blog Post In case you haven’t heard the thunderous celebration by the North American climate movement, today the State Dept is set to outright reject the Keystone XL pipeline. -
- Monday, Dec 19, 2011
Blog Post Talks about relationship between AFL-CIO's labor imperialism and its lack of involvement in progressive social struggles in the US over past 30 years. - All Labor Blogs
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- Tuesday, Mar 20, 2012
Video Interview on the old tradition of working class culture and the destruction of it, and the tendency of “Left Intellectuals” to focus on “Post-Materialist issues” while ignoring problems that confront working people -
- Friday, Dec 24, 2010
Video Gender, occupational segregation, and the structural transformation of Capitalism... -
- Wednesday, Oct 06, 2010
Video While workers in the US talk about "One Nation", workers in Europe are demanding that the rich pay for crisis. -
- Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010
Video 2010 Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture -
- Saturday, Dec 13, 2008
Video Interview on Obama, Chicago workers strike, and more... -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Barbara Ehrenreich gives the graduating class of 2007 a realistic look at what's in store for them in the post-college world. Please visit her new organizations website which advocates for the shrinking middle class: www.unitedprofessionals.org. - All Featured Video
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