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Fitz: What's Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Don Fitz
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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
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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
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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.
Ehrenreich: Use Jobless Time to Build Better World
Znet Article, May, 12 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
In most parts of the world, mass unemployment brings the specter of mass social unrest. Not in the U.S., though, where 13 million people have accepted joblessness with nary a peep of protest.
Emersberger: Corporate Media Imposes Huge Costs on Workers
Znet Article, April, 24 2009
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
Anyone following the Canadian media's coverage of the auto crisis must be familiar with the term "legacy costs" – the auto companies' term for what they pay retired workers (basically pensions and benefits).
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...
Gindin: The Auto Crisis
Znet Article, April, 09 2009
Sam Gindin
Gindin's ZSpace page
Deep economic crises violently interrupt daily lives and force more radical responses onto the public agenda. In the case of the North American auto industry however, that radicalism has been remarkably one-sided. Absent an alternative of their ow...
Baker: Unemployment Jumps to 8.5 Percent, Economy Sheds 663,000 Jobs
Znet Article, April, 03 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March as the economy shed another 663,000 jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. With the job loss reported for March, and upward revisions of 84,000 for the prior two months, the economy h...
Early: Reading, Writing, and Union-Building
Znet Article, March, 30 2009
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
As more trade unionists joined labor historians, sociologists, industrial relations experts and worker educators in a wide-ranging debate about new strategies for labor, additional books have appeared which highlight model campaigns. On my bookshe...
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...
Brecher: Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression
Znet Article, March, 18 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-...
Early: Why Labor Doesn't Need a "House of Lords"
Znet Article, March, 12 2009
Steve Early
Early's ZSpace page
In a story datelined “Miami Beach,†which appeared the day before the one quoted above, The Times reported that some members of the AFL-CIO executive council, not to mention its once reform-minded president, John Sweeney, were experiencing “...
Baker: Strengthening Worker Retirement Security
Znet Article, March, 09 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Strengthening Worker Retirement Security Testimony of Dean Baker Before the House Committee on Education and Labor Hearing on Strengthening Worker Retirement Security
Baker: Unemployment Jumps to 8.1 Percent as Job Loss Accelerates
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
This report shows that recent economic projections were overly optimistic.
Gross: For Labor Solidarity with the NYU Student Occupiers
Znet Article, February, 24 2009
Daniel Gross
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The almost two-day student occupation at New York University around demands of transparency and accountability has ended but the dialogue set in motion by the action is just beginning. Also just beginning is the University's punitive measures aga...
Meister: An Rx For Nurses - And Us, Too
Znet Article, February, 23 2009
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
Those who are seeking reform of the woefully inadequate health care system have a new and powerful ally that aims to put the bulk of the country's registered nurses behind a drive to guarantee decent health care to all Americans.
Bacon: Labor Needs a Radical Vision
Znet Article, February, 20 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
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...
Panitch: Interview with Leo Panitch conducted by Workers' Liberty
Znet Article, February, 17 2009
Leo Panitch
Panitch's ZSpace page
In my view, the better term for the U.S. role in the world is Empire. That captures in my mind the way in which the American state plays a role of coordination and oversight and crisis-managing for global capitalism, in the absence of a global state.
Davidson: Blue-Green Insurgency Gets Fired Up at the DC Green Jobs Conference
Znet Article, February, 08 2009
Carl Davidson
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First-hand account of the 2009 Green Jobs in DC, drawing nearly 3000 trade union, environmental and youth activists.
Baker: Employment Free Fall Continues, Unemployment Rate Jumps to 7.6 Percent
Znet Article, February, 06 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The January employment report showed the economy losing 598,000 jobs in the month...
