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ZNet Article American capitalism faces multiple worsening crises. Vast unemployment, huge numbers of home foreclosures, and cuts to public services are symptoms of an economic system in crisis. -
- Sunday, Aug 29, 2010
ZNet Article Early in the morning of July 21, police stormed the offices of the Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union in Basra, the poverty-stricken capital of Iraq's oil-rich south. A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the first woman to head a nationa... ZNet Article In my address to the International Society for Ecological Economics I argued that to reduce ecological footprint and solve the unemployment crisis, hours of work should be reduced. ZNet Article Republican leaders in Congress would have us believe that most Americans support cutting Social Security and Medicare payments as a way to cut the federal budget deficit. But don't you believe it. -
- Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010
ZNet Article The real heroes of what’s left of the labor movement are not people with full-time union jobs, union-furnished cars and credit cards, and union benefits that dues-paying members don’t get anymore. -
- Monday, Aug 23, 2010
Commentary The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership ... -
- Tuesday, Aug 17, 2010
ZNet Article The Washington Post and most of the important people in Washington want the United States to be like Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, this is not another Borat movie, this is about the central focus of economic policy in the United States today. -
- Monday, Aug 16, 2010
ZNet Article Labor and Democratic Party leaders are concerned – and rightly so – that labor's rank-and-file may not turn out in November to support labor-friendly Democrats in the massive numbers that played a major role in the election of President Obama and ... Book Reprint of classic work on the American Working class and class consciousness... 'False Promises is a classic of its type, and well-known to specialist in labor studies. It is a highly original and bold perspective on American labor, still widely ... -
- Thursday, Aug 12, 2010
Book When the National Guard arrived in Ludlow, Colorado, in the fall of 1913, striking coal miners cheered. Five months later the Guard opened fire on them and their families. So begins Three Strikes, a collaboration by acclaimed American historians. Book Originally published in 1972, "Strike!" describes the story of repeated, massive and often violent revolts by ordinary working people in America. -
- Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010
ZNet Article An earlier BLS report on wages showed that union members average $4.95 an hour more than non-union workers doing the same work, a difference of nearly $10,000 a year. -
- Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010
ZNet Article A protest against anti-worker Law 30, Panama 2010. The law includes dramatic restrictions on the right to strike and immunity for the police to use force against strikers. When right-wing billionaire Ricardo Martinelli was elected Panama’s preside... -
- Monday, Jul 26, 2010
ZNet Article The number of serious on-the-job accidents this year have yet again made very clear the urgent need for expanded and tightened government safety regulation. The toll on workers has been high, as President Cecil Roberts of the United Mine Workers u... -
- Friday, Jul 23, 2010
ZNet Article On July 7 and 8, 2010, striking members of United Steel Workers Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, voted 75% in favor of a contract that ended a bitter strike against transnational mining giant Vale Inco. The 3300 strikers had been on the picket line... Commentary “Long constituting a vast secret economy in New York,” as described by the New York Times, domestic workers won a striking victory in righting a wrong in labor laws that has hung, like an albatross, around the necks of hundreds of thousands of wor... -
- Thursday, Jul 22, 2010
ZNet Article It was an unusually hot July day in San Francisco. There was a parade on that day in 1916 – a “Preparedness Day” parade to drum up support for U.S. entry into World War I. -
- Saturday, Jul 17, 2010
ZNet Article I'm heaving a sigh of relief now that this piece is done. The Detroit USSF was simply too massive and overwhelming to try to capture in one piece. Here's my shot at it, so pass it forward... -
- Thursday, Jul 08, 2010
ZNet Article In the last five years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has gone from being a media darling to generating more bad press for itself than any other labor organization. Some of SEIU’s negative publicity is a product of right-wing un... -
- Friday, Jul 02, 2010
ZNet Article As a longtime helper of labor organizing drives on the east coast—the largest of which involved 10,000 fewer workers in a public sector campaign thirty years ago—my hat is off to the formidable rank-and-file team that’s re-building unionism at Kai... -
- Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010
ZNet Article God may or may not be on the side of unions, but a Catholic scholars group says that being on the other side, that is being against unions, is a "grave violation" of the church's social doctrine. Opposing unions is, in fact, a mortal sin. And shou... -
- Wednesday, Jun 16, 2010
ZNet Article How inviting it looks, the fruit laid out for us in grocery stores and supermarkets in a profusion of bright color. Red, green, yellow, orange, purple . . . Cherries, grapes, berries. Apples and oranges, bananas, peaches oh, especially the peach... -
- Sunday, Jun 06, 2010
ZNet Article The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other outspoken foes of organized labor like to claim that small business owners are as anti-union as the notoriously anti-union Chamber and its big business members. But don't you believe it. -
- Thursday, May 20, 2010
ZNet Article “Manslaughter,” reads the United States Code, “is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.” It goes on, “Whoever is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.” I... -
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010
ZNet Article President Hugo Chavez swore in a range of directors of state owned companies that comprise the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG). The directors were chosen by workers’ working groups and ratified by the president. Chavez also announced a ran... -
- Monday, May 17, 2010
ZNet Article It's coming up on 10 o'clock in the evening aboard a massive oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon, 130 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. It's Tuesday, April 20. The rig sways gently in the calm waters. Then, suddenly . . . BOOM! -
- Sunday, May 16, 2010
ZNet Article As capitalism begins to emerge from the ‘Great Financial Crisis,’ there is good reason for working people to refrain from celebration. Though the roots of the crisis were in the private sector, it's clear that the bill will be primarily paid via t... -
- Tuesday, May 11, 2010
ZNet Article Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have been told that unless they can show legal immigration status, they will lo... -
- Monday, May 03, 2010
ZNet Article In a video message to members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) earlier this month, their longtime president, Andy Stern, tried to assuage any popular grief about his forthcoming retirement. He quoted from a Dr. Seuss story he of... -
- Thursday, Apr 29, 2010
ZNet Article Never has there been a greater champion of U.S. workers than former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24 at 98. Certainly in more than a half-century of covering labor, I’ve never met anyone more dedicated - or more effective - ... - All Newest Labor
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ZNet Article American capitalism faces multiple worsening crises. Vast unemployment, huge numbers of home foreclosures, and cuts to public services are symptoms of an economic system in crisis. -
- Sunday, Aug 29, 2010
ZNet Article In my address to the International Society for Ecological Economics I argued that to reduce ecological footprint and solve the unemployment crisis, hours of work should be reduced. -
- Tuesday, Aug 17, 2010
ZNet Article The Washington Post and most of the important people in Washington want the United States to be like Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, this is not another Borat movie, this is about the central focus of economic policy in the United States today. -
- Friday, Jul 23, 2010
ZNet Article On July 7 and 8, 2010, striking members of United Steel Workers Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, voted 75% in favor of a contract that ended a bitter strike against transnational mining giant Vale Inco. The 3300 strikers had been on the picket line... -
- Thursday, Jul 22, 2010
ZNet Article It was an unusually hot July day in San Francisco. There was a parade on that day in 1916 – a “Preparedness Day” parade to drum up support for U.S. entry into World War I. -
- Thursday, Jul 08, 2010
ZNet Article In the last five years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has gone from being a media darling to generating more bad press for itself than any other labor organization. Some of SEIU’s negative publicity is a product of right-wing un... -
- Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010
ZNet Article God may or may not be on the side of unions, but a Catholic scholars group says that being on the other side, that is being against unions, is a "grave violation" of the church's social doctrine. Opposing unions is, in fact, a mortal sin. And shou... -
- Thursday, May 20, 2010
ZNet Article “Manslaughter,” reads the United States Code, “is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice.” It goes on, “Whoever is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.” I... -
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010
ZNet Article President Hugo Chavez swore in a range of directors of state owned companies that comprise the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG). The directors were chosen by workers’ working groups and ratified by the president. Chavez also announced a ran... -
- Sunday, May 16, 2010
ZNet Article As capitalism begins to emerge from the ‘Great Financial Crisis,’ there is good reason for working people to refrain from celebration. Though the roots of the crisis were in the private sector, it's clear that the bill will be primarily paid via t... - All Featured ZNet Labor
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- Sunday, Mar 28, 2010
ZMag Article Door-to-door organizing that paid off with a union victory -
- Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
ZMag Article A new book by Joseph B. Atkins on media and labor in the U.S. south -
- Monday, Feb 01, 2010
ZMag Article An interview with Noam Chomsky on IWW labor organizing ZMag Article Remembering a labor organizer/strategist, author & ecologist ZMag Article Organizing coalitions in residential construction -
- Thursday, Jan 28, 2010
ZMag Article The effects of a law that makes it a crime to work -
- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
ZMag Article November 11 direct actions in support of fired workers ZMag Article Labor's missed opportunity on healthcare reform -
- Friday, Dec 04, 2009
ZMag Article An interview with Hong Kong labor leader Cheung Lai-Ha -
- Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009
ZMag Article A magical misery tour through a land of layoffs - All ZMag Labor
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- Monday, Apr 12, 2010
Blog Post As May approaches, the day celebrated for over a century as an emblem of workers power, (May Day), seems to have become a symbol of its fall. -
- Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010
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- Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
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- Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010
Blog Post This piece puts the 6 month-old strike by mine workers in Canada in a larger context, that of neoliberalism, and argues that we should all support the strikers because we face a common enemy. -
- Monday, Feb 01, 2010
Blog Post Lucio Stanca: il peggio non ha limiti. -
- Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
Blog Post wrokinginthesetimes.com post for Jan. 26, 2010
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- Monday, Jan 18, 2010
Blog Post Ericsson ha deciso di "derubare" i lavoratori degli aumenti contrattuali facendosi scudo della "crisi", ma questo non ha impedito che acquistasse l'azienda Pride. - All Labor Blogs
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