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Znet Article Scipes: Ten Days in Venezuela

Znet Article, July, 06 2006 Kim Scipes
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Returning to the United States from Venezuela is a strange experience.  Spending time with poor people hopeful about their future and the future of their children is a heady experience-and not one I've shared in a long time in the US. I just spen...

Znet Article Scipes: Worker-to-Worker Solidarity Committee to AFL-CIO:

Znet Article, May, 01 2006 Kim Scipes
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On March 6th, over 50 union members from several unions and activist allies picketed the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC.  This was to demand that the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center immediately break off all ties with the misnamed Natio...

Znet Article Scipes: Workers Rights ARE Human Rights -- Not Just in the USA, but Around the World

Znet Article, January, 31 2006 Kim Scipes
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Standing in the middle of a blizzard in Chicago on December 8, 2005 along with about 250-300 union members and supporters, I stood at the Haym...

Znet Article Scipes: Labor Rights: If Unions Won't Fight for Them, Then What Good are Unions?

Znet Article, December, 17 2005 Kim Scipes
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On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney pointed out that, "For all practical purposes, Americans have lost the freedom to form unions." Accordingly, the AFL-CIO and its allies engaged in a series of protest...

Znet Article Scipes: It's the Beginning of the End-For the Empire, Not Just the War

Znet Article, December, 01 2005 Kim Scipes
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This past September, I wanted to write something about the juxtaposition of the extremely successful mobilization against the war in Iraq on September 24th with the failed mobilization the following day in support of the war. A phrase kept running...

Znet Article Scipes: The Incredible Lightness of Vision In the US Labor Movement

Znet Article, November, 02 2005 Kim Scipes
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Whoopee! The Change to Win Coalition has established itself in the labor movement! Happy Days are here again! Andy Stern's going to lead us to the promised land! And the overwhelming response by American workers: yawn. At the time when American ...

Znet Article Scipes: US Labor Leaders: Missing in Action

Znet Article, September, 16 2005 Kim Scipes
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As one considers developments in and around the main currents of the US labor movement -- the recent split in the AFL-CIO, and the reaction of both sides of the split to the ongoing strike by AMFA against Northwest Airlines, most particularly -- i...

Znet Article Scipes: Reinserting 'Details'

Znet Article, August, 22 2005 Kim Scipes
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Tim Shorrock recently published an article titled "Labor's Foreign Policy Heads in a New Direction."  This piece seems to have gotten considerable distribution, especially as so many folks seem to desperately want to hear good news about Labor's f...

Znet Article Scipes: Distilling the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention: Disaster Ahoy!

Znet Article, August, 09 2005 Kim Scipes
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The Convention is over, delegates have returned home, and it's time to make sense of the mess. First of all, the "Change to Win" Coalition's boycott of the convention and split from the AFL-CIO was stupid. Workers are going to suffer for this stu...

Znet Article Scipes: AFL-CIO Foreign Policy:

Znet Article, August, 02 2005 Kim Scipes
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As one who has written a number of articles about the struggle to transform AFL-CIO foreign policy into genuine international labor solidarity and to pass the "Build Unity and Trust Among Workers Worldwide" resolution at the recent AFL-CIO Nationa...

Znet Article Scipes: Freeing Labor from the Empire:

Znet Article, July, 26 2005 Kim Scipes
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In the increasing "heat" of labor reform issues-which is not always the same as "light"-it has been discouraging to see how little attention has been paid to Labor's foreign policy issues.  This is, in my opinion, the 500-pound gorilla that no one...

Znet Article Scipes: An Unholy Alliance

Znet Article, July, 10 2005 Kim Scipes
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The AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center" (formally known as the American Center for International Labor Solidarity or ACILS) was actively involved in bringing together the leadership of the right-wing Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) and that of...

Znet Article Scipes: Are AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Engaging in Dirty Tricks?

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Kim Scipes
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The AFL-CIO is having its quadrennial convention in Chicago next month (July 2005) in Chicago. The labor movement is hurting: only about one-eighth of eligible workers overall (12.5%) are in unions, and it drops below 8 percent when looking only a...

Znet Article Scipes: Labor Imperialism Redux?: The AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy Since 1995

Znet Article, May, 01 2005 Kim Scipes
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Throughout much of its history, the AFL-CIO has carried out a reactionary labor program around the world. It has been unequivocally established that the AFL-CIO has worked to overthrow democratically-elected governments, collaborated with dictator...

Znet Article Scipes: AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Help Develop Bush's Foreign Policy

Znet Article, March, 10 2005 Kim Scipes
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AFL-CIO foreign policy leaders are helping develop U.S. State Department policy regarding labor through an initiative called the Advisory Committee on Labor Diplomacy (ACLD). AFL-CIO leaders have participated in ACLD since its beginning in May 199...

Znet Article Scipes: California AFL-CIO Rebukes Labor's National Level Foreign Policy Leaders

Znet Article, September, 05 2004 Kim Scipes
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The 25th Biennial California State AFL-CIO Convention in July handed a stunning rebuke to national-level foreign policy leaders of the AFL-CIO at their state convention in San Diego. By a unanimous decision, over 400 representatives of the state's...

Znet Article Scipes: International Income Inequality: Whither the United States?

Znet Article, August, 18 2004 Kim Scipes
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We hear ad nauseum from the mainstream media, and particularly the business-focused press, that the United Sta...

Znet Article Scipes: AFL-CIO in Venezuela

Znet Article, March, 25 2004 Kim Scipes
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Massive mobilizations, strikes, street conflict, hysterical mass media, social and economic disruption: Chile in 1972-73 Venezuela in 2002-04. The AFL-CIO is once again on the scene, this time in Venezuela, just as it was in Chile in 1973. Once ...

Znet Article Scipes: US Labor Against the War

Znet Article, October, 28 2003 Kim Scipes
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"Bring the troops home NOW" is not only the slogan of a growing portion of the US peace movement, but it now part of the ratified program of US Labor Against the War (USLAW). Meeting in Chicago this past weekend (October 24-25), 154 delegates repr...

Znet Article Scipes: AFL-CIO and Venezuela: Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction?

Znet Article, May, 02 2002 Kim Scipes
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AFL-CIO and Venezuela: Return of Labor Imperialism, or a Mistaken Reaction?

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