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Zirin: A Super Bowl of Struggle? The NFLPA’s Demaurice Smith on opposing Indiana’s “Right to Work” agenda

Znet Article, January, 23 2012 Dave Zirin
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From a sports union, our union, understand the power of management and understand how much power management can wield over an individual person

Brecher: Labor and Environment: New Steps for Dialogue

Znet Article, January, 20 2012 Jeremy Brecher
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What does the future hold for the relationship between environmentalism and organized labor?

Meister: Six Ways to Heal the Economy

Znet Article, December, 04 2011 Dick Meister
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The AFL-CIO has come up with an ambitious six-point plan for healing our very sick economy

Early: Partnering or Whistle-Blowing?

Znet Article, November, 25 2011 Steve Early
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Workers’ willingness to link their own contract fights to broader public concerns about the cost and quality of patient care may prove to be the better prescription for resisting concessions and reviving unions

La Botz: Can Ohio Unions’ Rebuke To Republicans Be Sustained?

Znet Article, November, 24 2011 Dan La Botz
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The unions’ success suggests that Republican control of the state legislature and governorship is not nearly as solid as predicted

Meister: Ohio Lessons

Znet Article, November, 19 2011 Dick Meister
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The Ohio vote demonstrated that it is possible to garner the votes necessary to overcome the forces that would deny us vital economic and political rights

Early: Good-Bye to the “Middle-Class”? A Lesson for Labor from Occupy Wall Street

Znet Article, November, 17 2011 Steve Early
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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has given our timorous, unimaginative, and politically ambivalent unions a much-needed ideological dope slap

Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism

Znet Article, November, 14 2011 Gar Alperovitz
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Co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system

Meister: Labor & the Occupiers: A Natural Fit

Znet Article, November, 12 2011 Dick Meister
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Unions need to make clear, in words and deeds, that they are indeed facing the same problems and opponents as the occupiers

Cooke: The Occupy Movement Needs a Good Fight

Znet Article, November, 08 2011 Shamus Cooke
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The Occupy Movement has the nation's attention now, but working people's attention is conditional; they will stay focused on Occupy if Occupy is focused on them

Meister: Respect For Car Wash Workers – At Last

Znet Article, October, 31 2011 Dick Meister
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The contract terms are modest, but they're an important, badly needed start

Moberg: Working America Nurtures Working Class Support for ‘Occupy’ Aims

Znet Article, October, 30 2011 David Moberg
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The challenge is to give Working America members a way that’s comfortable to express their sentiments over the growing social and economic divide

Early: Whither Change to Win?

Znet Article, October, 15 2011 Steve Early
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Change to Win was a mixed bag at best, more mirage than real, and hardly the second coming of the CIO

Pearson: Workers in Nationalised Companies in Venezuela Demand More Worker Control

Znet Article, October, 14 2011 Tamara Pearson
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1,800 workers protested, claiming the agreement they made with President Hugo Chavez last year was being violated

Scipes: Beware of Labor Leaders Bearing Gifts

Znet Article, October, 12 2011 Kim Scipes
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Union leaders will try to get you to shift your efforts to supporting the Democrats, even though the Democrats have collaborated in creating much of the death and destruction around the world