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- Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010
ZNet Article Although the global recession has had a serious impact on working men and women alike, two new reports make clear that women in the United States and throughout the world have suffered most because of long-standing discrimination. -
- Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010
Video 2010 Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture -
- Monday, Mar 15, 2010
ZNet Article The biggest hole in California, with the exception of the current state budget, is Rio Tinto's huge open-pit mine at the town of Boron, near Edwards Air Force Base, eighty miles northeast of Los Angeles. -
- Sunday, Mar 07, 2010
ZNet Article President Obama's honeymoon with organized labor has finally ended. It was a long honeymoon, though more than a year and full of passion. But, alas, labor's ardor has cooled. -
- Saturday, Mar 06, 2010
ZNet Article Nearly one year after Massachusetts local makeover, California follows suit -
- Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
ZNet Article Most projections now show that the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries will have extraordinarily high rates of unemployment for several years to come. While there are differences across countries, in most the unemploym... -
- Monday, Mar 01, 2010
ZNet Article It’s called musculoskeletal disorder or MSD, the most common of the serious injuries suffered by U.S. workers. But because corporate employers fear that greater public awareness would force them to spend more on job safety, MSD has remained one of... -
- Sunday, Feb 21, 2010
ZNet Article Union members invariably have better pay and benefits than non-union workers. But, as a new study shows, the number of workers who’ve joined unions varies widely from state to state. -
- Sunday, Feb 07, 2010
ZNet Article Organized labor and its allies are rightly alarmed over the high incidence of on-the-job accidents that have killed or maimed many thousands of workers. But they haven’t forgotten nor should we forget the on-the-job violence that also afflicts... -
- Thursday, Feb 04, 2010
ZNet Article For two weeks in January Belgian brewery workers blocked roads, set fire to beer crates, kidnapped managers and handed out free beer as part of their tactics against job cuts proposed by Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer. The comp... -
- Monday, Feb 01, 2010
ZNet Article Scott Brown’s January 19 defeat of Martha Coakley in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat has been greeted as a “game changer†for Barack Obama and his political backers. This GOP victory has deprived Democrats of their “filibuster... -
- Saturday, Jan 23, 2010
ZNet Article The Senate Democrats loss of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority seems almost certain to doom attempts to revive the barely functioning National Labor Relations Board, the country's chief labor law administrator and enforcer. -
- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
ZMag Article November 11 direct actions in support of fired workers -
- Sunday, Dec 27, 2009
ZNet Article The underpaid, overworked and otherwise poorly treated airport screeners who are essential to air passenger safety may finally be winning their long struggle for the badly needed union rights guaranteed other federal employees. -
- Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
ZNet Article While attention to class has ebbed and flowed among social movements for generations, class rule was always present and the recent economic crisis has forced it back into the spotlight. But what is class rule and why is it important? -
- Monday, Dec 21, 2009
ZNet Article Despite the importance of unions in our lives, our schools pay only slight attention to their importance  or even to their existence. -
- Saturday, Dec 19, 2009
ZNet Article Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age -- sometimes as early as 40 -- and it can make the victim feel unwanted, unneeded and oppressed by all in this work and youth oriented society. -
- Monday, Dec 14, 2009
ZNet Article The terrain of "progressive labor" in the U.S. has shifted dramatically in recent years. The two-million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU)--long associated with the remaking of labor as a force for social justice--has become embr... ZNet Article In her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the origins of contemporary optimism from nineteenth-century healers to twentieth-century pushers of consumerism. She... -
- Tuesday, Dec 08, 2009
ZNet Article The United States has more than 15 million people unemployed. This is not their fault. It is the fault of really bad policy decisions by people who get paid more than almost all of the unemployed ever did or ever will. The failure of economic poli... -
- Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009
ZNet Article Book review: Clean clothes. A global movement to end sweatshops by Liesbeth Sluiter -
- Monday, Nov 30, 2009
ZNet Article Of all the ideas out there on how to pull us out of the economic mess we’re in, none makes more sense than the program laid out by the AFL-CIO and a coalition of civil rights groups and other organizations. -
- Thursday, Nov 19, 2009
Commentary It's Nov. 19, 1915, in a courtyard of the Utah State Penitentiary in Salt Lake City. Five riflemen take careful aim at a condemned organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill, who stands before them straight and stiff and proud. ZNet Article Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor: An Interview With Noam Chomsky by the IWW. -
- Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009
ZNet Article The unemployment rate is 10.2 percent and virtually certain to rise even higher in the months ahead. Even with the prospect of extended benefits, unemployment is still a crisis for the families affected, as they struggle to pay their mortgage or r... - All Newest Labor
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- Monday, Mar 15, 2010
ZNet Article The biggest hole in California, with the exception of the current state budget, is Rio Tinto's huge open-pit mine at the town of Boron, near Edwards Air Force Base, eighty miles northeast of Los Angeles. -
- Saturday, Mar 06, 2010
ZNet Article Nearly one year after Massachusetts local makeover, California follows suit -
- Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
ZNet Article Most projections now show that the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries will have extraordinarily high rates of unemployment for several years to come. While there are differences across countries, in most the unemploym... -
- Sunday, Feb 07, 2010
ZNet Article Organized labor and its allies are rightly alarmed over the high incidence of on-the-job accidents that have killed or maimed many thousands of workers. But they haven’t forgotten nor should we forget the on-the-job violence that also afflicts... -
- Monday, Feb 01, 2010
ZNet Article Scott Brown’s January 19 defeat of Martha Coakley in the race to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat has been greeted as a “game changer†for Barack Obama and his political backers. This GOP victory has deprived Democrats of their “filibuster... -
- Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
ZNet Article While attention to class has ebbed and flowed among social movements for generations, class rule was always present and the recent economic crisis has forced it back into the spotlight. But what is class rule and why is it important? -
- Monday, Dec 14, 2009
ZNet Article In her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the origins of contemporary optimism from nineteenth-century healers to twentieth-century pushers of consumerism. She... -
- Thursday, Nov 19, 2009
ZNet Article Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor: An Interview With Noam Chomsky by the IWW. -
- Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009
ZNet Article The unemployment rate is 10.2 percent and virtually certain to rise even higher in the months ahead. Even with the prospect of extended benefits, unemployment is still a crisis for the families affected, as they struggle to pay their mortgage or r... -
- Sunday, Oct 25, 2009
ZNet Article Sam Gindin interviewed by PSAC's Our Union Voice - All Featured ZNet Labor
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- 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 Remembering a labor organizer/strategist, author & ecologist -
- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
ZMag Article November 11 direct actions in support of fired workers -
- Friday, Dec 04, 2009
ZMag Article An interview with Hong Kong labor leader Cheung Lai-Ha -
- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZMag Article The economic crisis for those at the bottom of the ladder -
- Tuesday, Sep 01, 2009
ZMag Article Activism in and repression of Iran's unions ZMag Article NYC transit worker & labor leader discusses union activism -
- Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009
ZMag Article Chicago's six-year strike by UNITE HERE Local 1 ZMag Article Cutting back work time for leisure and the planet ZMag Article Right wing class war and "countersubversion" - All ZMag Labor
Comments on Labor-
- Tuesday, Mar 09, 2010
Forum Post You must be thinking of another article. I made no "excuses and apologies" for Obama and the Democrats. I merely commented on the facts that from your political perspective might seem to be excusing and apologizing. My eyes are wide open... Forum Post Could there be a more blatant exercise in making excuses and apologies for Obama than this? It's all those evil Republicans and Obama's incredible commitment to Principle that is screwing the workers and the unions. Obama and the Democ... -
- Monday, Mar 08, 2010
Forum Post Not sure I get your point, but believe me, I am not now nor have I ever been a part of union management . -
- Sunday, Mar 07, 2010
Forum Post Dick, it is called a strike. That is a choice. The fact that you anf the rest of union management have forgotten about this tactic is indicative. Sticking with Democrats is the same as being a scab. -
- Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
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- Saturday, Feb 20, 2010
Forum Post There's a good article talking about just this in the magazine 'Dollars and Sense' right now. I think it's by Michael Perelman. It talks about how Management isn't really concerned with efficiency but rather with control. Intuiti... -
- Friday, Feb 12, 2010
Forum Post roger, last night PBS showed a documentary on the brain. was real broad and interesting. one section talked about ambiguity. there was an experiment. in one hand i hold five blue marbles and five red marbles. in the other hand is a combination not... - All Comments on Labor
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- 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. -
- Thursday, Jan 14, 2010
Blog Post workinginthesetimes.com blog for Jan. 14, 2010 - All Labor Blogs
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- Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010
Video 2010 Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture -
- Saturday, Jan 24, 2009
Video Bill Fletcher - Author of "Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice" speaks at United Healthcare Workers 2008 Leadership Conference. (Part 1 of 2) -
- 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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