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Bacon: Immigration Reform: We Need a Better Alternative
Znet Article, March, 23 2010
David Bacon
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Oakland, California - Sens. Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham announced Thursday their plan for immigration reform. Unfortunately, it is a retread, recycling the same bad ideas that led to the defeat of reform efforts over the last five years. In...
Bacon: Should We Defend Undocumented Workers?
Zmag Article, January, 28 2010
David Bacon
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The effects of a law that makes it a crime to work
Bacon: The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement
Znet Article, December, 16 2009
David Bacon
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Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tai kwon do championship team this year. She's 14. For six years she's gone to practice instead of birthday parties, giving up the friendships most teenagers live for. Then two months ago...
Bacon: The Human Face of Budget Cuts
Znet Article, December, 06 2009
David Bacon
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Cesar Cota was the first in his family to attend college. "Now it's hard to achieve my dream," he says, "because the state put higher fees on us, and cut services and classes." Cota, a student at Los Angeles City College, was encouraged by the int...
Bacon: Should We Defend Undocumented Workers?
Znet Article, November, 24 2009
David Bacon
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One winter morning in 1996, Border Patrol agents charged into a Los Angeles street-corner clinic where 40 day laborers had lined up to be tested for AIDS. One worker, Omar Sierra, had just taken his seat, and a nurse had inserted the needle for dr...
Bacon: A Factory Like a City
Zmag Article, November, 01 2009
David Bacon
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A photo essay on a California factory slated to close
Bacon: Solidarity Stories
Zmag Article, October, 01 2009
David Bacon
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A new oral history compiled by Harvey Schwartz on radical longshore workers
Bacon: A Factory Like a City
Znet Article, September, 16 2009
David Bacon
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Last month, Toyota announced it would close the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, after General Motors announced it was withdrawing from the partnership under which the plant has operated for over two decade...
Bacon: It's Time to be Audacious
Znet Article, September, 04 2009
David Bacon
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A talk given at Socialism 2009...
Bacon: Can Labor Get Out of This Mess?
Znet Article, August, 18 2009
David Bacon
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For anyone who loves the labor movement, it's not unreasonable today to ask whether we've lost our way. California's huge healthcare local is in trusteeship, its leading organizing drive in a shambles. SEIU's international is at war with its own m...
Bacon: U.S. Courts: Enemies Of Education?
Zmag Article, July, 01 2009
David Bacon
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Decisions undermining the right to education
Bacon: US Courts - Enemies of Education?
Znet Article, May, 08 2009
David Bacon
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Is there a "constitutional right to education"?
Bacon: Why Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act
Znet Article, April, 16 2009
David Bacon
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Today, median weekly pay for union members is $886, compared to $691 for nonunion workers. Moving cargo on the Oakland waterfront pays three times what stocking shelves does at Wal-Mart, because longshore workers have had a union contract since 19...
Bacon: Why Immigrant Workers Will Fill the Streets This May Day
Znet Article, March, 28 2009
David Bacon
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In a little over a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city after city, town after town, across the US. This year these May Day marches of immigrant workers will make an important demand on the O...
Bacon: Why Labor Law Doesn't Work for Workers
Znet Article, March, 12 2009
David Bacon
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Lancaster, California - After months of a media war supporting and condemning it, the Employee Free Choice Act was finally introduced into Congress again this week. The bill has been debated before, but with a larger Democratic majority, its chanc...
Bacon: Labor Needs a Radical Vision
Znet Article, February, 20 2009
David Bacon
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During the Cold War, many people with a radical vision of the world were driven out of our labor movement. Today, as unions search for answers about how to begin growing again and regain the power workers need to defend themselves, the question of...
Bacon: Unions Need Unity
Znet Article, January, 15 2009
David Bacon
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Twelve unions met in Washington, DC, last week and announced they're considering rejoining the two labor federations, the American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Change to Win (CTW), which split apart five y...
Bacon: Unions Come to Smithfield
Znet Article, December, 21 2008
David Bacon
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On Dec. 11, Smithfield workers were not just celebrating a vote count. They'd just defeated one of the longest, most bitter anti-union campaigns in modern U.S. labor history.
Bacon: "Somebody Has to Respond"
Znet Article, December, 12 2008
David Bacon
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When the day finally comes that Raul Flores loses his job, he will face a bitter search for another one. "I've got a family to support, so I've got to do whatever it takes," he says. "It's going to be hard. The economic situation is not good, but ...
Bacon: Mississippi Workers Fight Racial Division
Zmag Article, December, 01 2008
David Bacon
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David Bacon on an ICE raid at Howard Industries and immigrant worker organizing.
