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Baker: Economy Loses 83,000 Jobs, Unemployment Jumps to 5.1 Percent
Znet Article, April, 10 2008
Dean Baker
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The private sector is shedding jobs at the rate of almost 100,000 per month...
Early: A Purple Uprising In Oakland
Znet Article, April, 03 2008
Steve Early
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As an infrequent visitor to the west coast, I’ve never experienced the earthquake tremors that are so familiar to millions of Californians.
Meister: Don't Be A Marshmallow!
Znet Article, March, 13 2008
Dick Meister
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It's Women's History Month, and who better to celebrate it with than Dolores Huerta...
Billet: Picket the Grammys!
Znet Article, January, 28 2008
Alexander Billet
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An Open Letter to the Writers Guild of America...
Deshpande: West Bengal
Znet Article, June, 01 2007
Sudhanva Deshpande
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Isn't our life a tunnelbetween two clarities? Pablo Neruda, Libros de las preguntas, 1974. In August 2006, Mamata Banerjee traveled to Singur, home to around 20,000 people in the state of West Bengal. Banerjee, who was once an activis...
Brecher: Labor Confronts Global Warming
Znet Article, April, 14 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern...
Raina: Nandigram and the Left
Znet Article, April, 11 2007
Badri Raina
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However much the CPI(M), including the rather overly ebullient chief minister of West Bengal, may regret the police firing at Nandigram on March 14, the last word does not seem to get said on the issue. Things have now come to a pass when as we...
Hawkins: Rebuilding the Labor Movement in the United States
Znet Article, September, 05 2006
Howie Hawkins
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Unions need to offer a vision of how a just society should be organized. We need to organize for real solutions like fair trade, national health insurance, labor law reform, internal union democratic reforms to re-engage the rank and file, and a m...
Wetzel: Unionism and Workers' Liberation
Znet Article, May, 31 2006
Tom Wetzel
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Unionism and Workers' Liberation
Early: Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz
Znet Article, January, 03 2006
Steve Early
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Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, student...
Hirsch: The New York City Transit Strike:
Znet Article, December, 22 2005
Michael Hirsch
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The now three-day-old strike by New York's 34,000 bus and subway workers, crippling mass transit and estimated to have affected some 3.5 million daily commuters, is being played out in the media -- particularly tel...
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...
Wainwright: Lula's Lament
Znet Article, September, 21 2005
Hilary Wainwright
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'When there is such an overwhelming disaster and you see yourself as part of this disaster, you begin to question your whole life. Why so many years of sacrifice and struggle?' Congressman Fernando Gabeira expresses the feelings of many petistas -...
Aronowitz: On the AFL-CIO Split
Znet Article, August, 19 2005
Stanley Aronowitz
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In some respects it was fitting that four important affiliates declared their withdrawal from the AFL-CIO in the days running up to the 50th anniversary convention in July 2005. A merger which was conceived in a unity that signified complacency wa...
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...
Fletcher jr.: Labor Needs a Hard Left Turn
Znet Article, July, 23 2005
Bill Fletcher jr.
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Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of John Sweeney was elected in 1995, Fletcher became the labor federation's director of...
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...
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...
Morduchowicz: Manufacturing militants.
Znet Article, May, 08 2005
Daniel Morduchowicz
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The occupied factory movement in Argentina sprung out of the economic disaster that befell the country during the last decade - brought about by years of neoliberal policies and strict adherence to the dictates of the International financial insti...
