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Bybee: Is Labor Prepared to Fight?
Zmag Article, June, 01 2009
Roger Bybee
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Prospects for labor resurgence during the economic downturn
Berlet: Von Mises Rises from the Scrap Heap of History
Zmag Article, May, 01 2009
Chip Berlet
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Resurrected right wing theories in the attacks on pending labor legislation
Berlet: Card Check, FDR, and Right-Wing History
Zmag Article, April, 01 2009
Chip Berlet
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Some history behind the pending "card check" labor legislation
Bybee: Lessons from the Big Auto Bailout
Zmag Article, April, 01 2009
Roger Bybee
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Hypocrysy and lies in the manufacturing bailout
Piascik: Sisters in the Brotherhoods
Zmag Article, March, 01 2009
Andy Piascik
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Review of a new book by Lane LaTour on path-breaking union women
Berlet: Anti-Union Campaigns and The Big Three Bullies
Zmag Article, March, 01 2009
Chip Berlet
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Virulent anti-labor history and the current card check legislation
Thompson: The American Axle Strike
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Wendy Thompson
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Wendy Thompson and Chris Kutalik on a strike's effects.
Rosen: Write On!
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
David Rosen
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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike this winter against TV and movie producers was one of the longest successful white-collar worker strikes in U.S. history. It lasted 14 weeks less then the writers’ 1988 strike, which lasted almost 22 weeks...
Abowd: North Carolina Sweatshop Activists Stage 16-Day Sit-In
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Paul Abowd
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Finals week was fast approaching when 15 University of North Carolina students occupied the administration building in Chapel Hill on April 17. SAW activists transformed the administration building into a communications center, launching an online...
Bybee: Colombia "Free Trade" Deal
Zmag Article, June, 30 2008
Roger Bybee
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A proposed “free trade” deal with Colombia, where 2,100 unionists have been assassinated since 1991, sheds light on many unsavory facets of U.S. policy. Despite the evident failures of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to benefit ord...
Bacon: Mississippi’s SB 2988
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
David Bacon
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On March 17 Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. The Mississippi bill, SB 2988, requires employers to use an electronic system called E-Verify.
Finamore: The Private World of Aircraft Maintenance
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Carl Finamore
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On April 9 there were 1,100 cancellations by American Airlines and 900 more the following day. Over 250,000 passengers were stranded as the carrier rushed to make adjustments to “wiring bundles” on its fleet of 300 MD-80s. Similar maintenance prob...
Bacon: Hollywood Comes to Blows with Upton Sinclair
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
David Bacon
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Writing us out of a movie made from "Oil!" expropriated one of the most important works of our history.
Ten eyck: Freightliner Workers Fight for their Jobs
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Tiffany Ten eyck
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Cleveland, North Carolina, a small town with less than 1,000 residents, is an unlikely home for an active autoworkers’ union. Freightliner LLC (now owned by Daimler) opened a truck-manufacturing plant in the town in 1989. The United Auto Workers w...
Finamore: Stealth Election at the TWU
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
Carl Finamore
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The Transport Workers Union (TWU) was locked in a major fight for union recognition at Continental Airlines in early January 2008. Unfortunately, few noticed.
Early: Review: On the Global Waterfront
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Steve Early
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Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger’s On The Global Waterfront is a detailed study of the fight to save five ILA members from politically-motivated felony charges. The prosecution of the Charleston 5—four blacks and one white accused of rioting—co...
Read: Liberia: A Gulag of Misery
Zmag Article, February, 01 2008
Dan Read
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Firestone workers on Liberian rubber plantations are given a quota to fill for a day’s work, which for the “tappers” amounts to extracting fresh rubber from no less than 750 trees. According to the company CEO, Dan Adomitis, this quota can take an...
Asher: Workers Centers
Zmag Article, December, 01 2007
Colin Asher
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With only 8 employees and 1,900 members, the Restaurant Opportunity Center-New York (ROC- NY) is David to the Goliath of the restaurant industry and all of its commensurate associations and legal teams. ROC-NY is a workers center, a non-union orga...
Paul: Organizing Domestic Workers
Zmag Article, December, 01 2007
Ari Paul
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There are many adjectives to describe New York City’s 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care workers, but one that comes up a lot among them is “invisible.” Often paid under the table, they exist outside the formal economy. They work in h...
Paul: NYC Subway Workers Fight for Survival
Zmag Article, November, 01 2007
Ari Paul
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Steve St. Hill is lucky to be alive. A track worker with New York City Transit for 15 years, St. Hill was working on the N/W line in Queens last September when a train failed to stop, going through his work site. A flagger blew his air-horn in tim...
