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Chomsky: Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor
Znet Article, November, 19 2009
Noam Chomsky
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Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labor: An Interview With Noam Chomsky by the IWW.
Baker: An Unemployment Solution: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours
Znet Article, November, 17 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
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...
Gindin: Challenges for Public Sector Unions
Znet Article, October, 25 2009
Sam Gindin
Gindin's ZSpace page
Sam Gindin interviewed by PSAC's Our Union Voice
Trigona: Kraft Firings Feed Protests
Znet Article, October, 08 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Mass firings at Kraft Foods' plant in Argentina sparked protests throughout the nation, and ignited a new wave of worker organizing. In August, Kraft fired 160 workers after they went on strike to demand proper health measures at the company's fac...
Early: SEIU Civil War Puts “Partnership†In New Light
Znet Article, October, 08 2009
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
Review of: Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente, by Tom Kochan, Robert McKersie, Adrienne Eaton, and Paul Adler (Cornell ILR Press, 2009).
Fletcher jr.: American Labor & Class
Znet Article, September, 20 2009
Bill Fletcher jr.
Fletcher jr.'s ZSpace page
As those conservative protesters were leaving Washington, members of the country's largest body of unions, the AFL-CIO were arriving in Pittsburg for their annual convention. They elected the former coal miner Richard Trumka to be their new Presid...
Early: Specter In Pittsburgh: Punishment and Reward at AFL-CIO Convention
Znet Article, September, 16 2009
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
When the history of the bi-partisan undermining of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is finally written, Pennsylvania Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter will be assigned a pivotal role.
Bacon: A Factory Like a City
Znet Article, September, 16 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
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...
Early: Another Hail Mary Pass From Labor’s Latest Quarterback?
Znet Article, September, 13 2009
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
Hope for a revived union movement has come in successive waves in recent decades, only to recede over time. When the national AFL-CIO meets next week in Pittsburgh to choose new officers, the fans in the stands will be cheering the latest change i...
Trigona: FASINPAT: A Factory that Belongs to the People
Znet Article, September, 04 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
The workers at Argentina's largest worker-controlled factory are celebrating a definitive legal solution to a nine-year struggle for the right to work and workers' self-determination. The provincial legislature of Neuquén voted in favor of exprop...
Bacon: It's Time to be Audacious
Znet Article, September, 04 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
A talk given at Socialism 2009...
Meister: Labor Day: Safety first
Znet Article, August, 29 2009
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
Unions are marking Labor Day this year with high hopes that the labor-friendly Obama administration will take decisive action to finally ease the severe on-the-job hazards facing U.S. workers.
Early: Kennedy's Sins Against Labor
Znet Article, August, 28 2009
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
I was raised, like most Irish-Catholics, not to speak ill of the dead—at least while the wake is still underway. Of course, the affliction known as “Irish Alzheimers†exerts a powerful tug in the opposite direction. Forgetting everything exc...
Trigona: FASINPAT (Factory without a boss): an Argentine Experience in Self-Management
Znet Article, August, 13 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
The workers at Argentina's occupied ceramics factory FASINPAT won a major victory this week: the factory now belongs to the people in legal terms. The provincial legislature voted in favor of expropriating the ceramics factory and handing it over ...
Gindin: Lessons from the Humbling of General Motors
Znet Article, July, 08 2009
Sam Gindin
Gindin's ZSpace page
Of all 20th century industries, it was the auto sector that best captured the sway of capitalism and the rise of American dominance. The assembly line showed off capitalism’s remarkable productive potential and the automobile flaunted capitalism...
Gross: Introducing the Employee Liberation Act
Znet Article, June, 29 2009
Daniel Gross
Gross's ZSpace page
There are various arguments that employers make to achieve the goal of killing an election such as challenging the scope of the bargaining unit. As employers litigate to cancel the election altogether, they simultaneously unleash a relentless cam...
Wetzel: From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society
Znet Article, June, 15 2009
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
When Marx drew up a draft set of principles for the first International Working Men's Association (the "First International") in the 1860s, he began with the statement:
Fitz: What's Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? Not the Republicans. Not even the Democrats. But why is there nary a peep from unions?
Hattingh: Factory Occupations
Znet Article, June, 09 2009
Shawn Hattingh
Hattingh's ZSpace page
Around the world workers have been under attack due to the crisis. However, many workers have fought back through direct actions, like the Ssangyong occupation in South Korea, and in the process they are winning gains.
Klein: The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss!
Znet Article, May, 19 2009
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
With the world economy now looking remarkably like Argentina's in 2001 (and for many of the same reasons) there is a new wave of direct action among workers in rich countries.
