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Bacon: A Labor Law Bosses Would Love
Znet Article, May, 03 2011
David Bacon
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All the reforms have been part of a program of economic liberalization opening Mexico to private capital
Bacon: One Hundred and Fifty Years After General Strike
Znet Article, April, 23 2011
David Bacon
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In the 150-year history of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the watershed event was one that happened 70 years ago - the San Francisco general strike
Bacon: Up Against the Open Shop - the Hidden Story of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Workers
Znet Article, March, 05 2011
David Bacon
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On January 29, 1993, workers at the Versatronex plant in Sunnyvale, California, filed out of its doors for the last time.
Bacon: The Rise and Fall of Employer Sanctions
Znet Article, January, 10 2011
David Bacon
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In this essay, David Bacon and Bill Ong Hing argue that ICE raids-be they of the Bush or the Obama kind-should cease. The basis for these operations-employer sanctions-should be repealed, and true reform that recognizes the rights of all workers s...
Bacon: California’s Perfect Storm
Znet Article, October, 09 2010
David Bacon
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When the current recession hit, California had already fallen from one of the country’s leaders in per-pupil education funding in the 1950s to 49th among the 50 states in the last decade.
Bacon: Another Immigration Policy Is Possible!
Znet Article, July, 04 2010
David Bacon
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Thousands of left-wing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner "Another World is Possible." Among them hundreds added a new subtext: "Another Immigration Policy is Possible!"
Bacon: Hundreds of Union Janitors Fired Under Pressure From Feds
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
David Bacon
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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...
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: 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
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: 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: 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: Original Workers Overcome Divisions After Mississippi Raid
Znet Article, September, 09 2008
David Bacon
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In the recent raid of the Howard Industries electrical plant in Laurel, Mississippi, 481 workers have been detained for almost two weeks in Jena, Louisiana. Neither they nor their attorneys know when they will be formally charged, deported or rele...
Bacon: Unions At War
Znet Article, August, 11 2005
David Bacon
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In Chicago's cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the floor. San Francisco's Nancy Wohlforth stood at mic number 2. She'd been waiting for this moment for two y...
Bacon: Stories from the Borderlands
Znet Article, July, 08 2005
David Bacon
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The world of the border turns labor law on its head-old, established legal rights are just so much ink on paper, and even the decision of federal judges to enforce the law are simply ignored. NAFTA's labor and environmental "side- agreements" have...
