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Dirnbach: Unions, Activists, & the Global Apparel Industry
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
Eric Dirnbach
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T he global apparel industry is a vast sweatshop enterprise employing tens of millions of workers in over 100 countries. The workers’ struggle to improve their conditions within this global s...
Bacon: Sportswriter At The Barricades
Zmag Article, January, 01 2007
David Bacon
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W hile the turmoil in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was in the headlines last fall for weeks, little media coverage noted that at its center was a crusading newspaper, Noticias. The paper’s ...
Parsons: A New Generation of Youth Labor Activists
Zmag Article, September, 01 2006
Rachel Parsons
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I attended the 13th Annual Labor Notes Conference, “Building Solidarity from Below,” with 900 other labor activists this past May in Dearborn, Michigan and talked with many of the young...
La Botz: Wildcat Miners’ Strike In Mexico
Zmag Article, July, 01 2006
Dan La Botz
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M ore than a quarter of a million miners and steelworkers walked off the job between March 1-3 in wildcat strikes at 70 companies in at least 8 states from central to northern Mexico, virtually par...
Deusen: Changing Employment In The Green Mountains
Zmag Article, June, 01 2006
David Van Deusen
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O n March 3 the 98-year-old Capital City Press in Berlin, Vermont shut its doors for the last time and 200 skilled workers, members of the Teamster-affiliated Lithographers Local 1, found themselve...
Kutalik: Is A Labor Comeback in the Cards?
Zmag Article, June, 01 2006
Chris Kutalik
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A s labor activists from around the country and world converged on Dearborn, Michigan in early May for a Labor Notes Conference, it’s worth reflecting on a year that has brought hope for a re...
Bacon: The People Shout No
Zmag Article, May, 01 2006
David Bacon
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N o! That’s what hundreds of thousands of people were saying as they came out of their homes into the streets all over the country—a million in Los Angeles, half a million in Chicago, t...
Bacon: Hunger On The Border
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
David Bacon
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T oday the U.S./Mexico border is the subject of intense political controversy. Most of the fireworks focuses, however, on the idea that more enforcement can keep people from crossing it. Lost in th...
Hornaday: CAFTA & Women
Zmag Article, February, 01 2006
Melissa Hornaday
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D espite union opposition in several countries, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) squeaked through the House of Representatives by only two votes on July 28, after passing the Senat...
Bacon: Iraqi Labor’s Resistance
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
David Bacon
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O n February 18 Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a leader of the al-Daura oil refinery’s union, was walking home from work in Basra, Iraq with his young children when gunmen ran up and shot him.&n...
Ross: British Columbia Teachers' Strike
Zmag Article, January, 01 2006
E. Wayne Ross
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I n British Columbia 42,000 teachers walked out of the classroom and on to the picket line in October, demanding improved working and learning conditions from the government, as well as salary...
Rasmus: The AFL-CIO Split
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
Jack Rasmus
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T wo events of particular import occurred the last week of July: the AFL-CIO split and CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade Agreement) was passed by Congress. The consequences of the former are yet to be determined. ...
Siu hin: Labor’s China Syndrome
Zmag Article, July, 01 2005
Lee Siu hin
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A t the upcoming AFL-CIO convention in Chicago in July 2005, thousands of labor activists will stand up to question their president John Sweeney’s failed labor leadership and his policy of accepting money f...
Kutalik: Finding Workplace Power
Zmag Article, June, 01 2005
Chris Kutalik
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T he recent AFL-CIO debates have generated much smoke and thunder. What’s lacking is a short- to medium-term strategy that gets at how workers and unions can tap the strength they find on the job. Unions and work...
Bacon: Who Murdered Gilberto Soto?
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
David Bacon
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A s evening fell on November 5, Gilberto Soto received a call on his cell phone at his mother’s home in a working-class neighborhood of Usulutan, El Salvador. Unable to understand the caller, Soto stepped o...
Johnson: AFL-CIO Leaders Move Forward
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
William Johnson
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A re you worried about the future of the labor movement? Are you working longer hours for less money than workers like you have for decades? Have you noticed the rapid decline of union power in your workplace and our s...
Administrator: Worker-Run Cooperatives in Buenos Aires
Zmag Article, April, 01 2005
Site Administrator
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D uring the economic crisis of 2001, when politicians and banks failed, many Argentines took matters into their own hands. Poverty, homelessness, and unemployment were countered with barter systems and grassroots, micr...
Bacon: The Death of Hadi Saleh
Zmag Article, March, 01 2005
David Bacon
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W hen they came for Hadi Saleh on January 4, they found him at home in Baghdad with his family. First, they bound his hands and feet with wire. Then they tortured him, cutting him with a knife. He finally died of stran...
Bacon: Britain's War Over Managed Migration An
Zmag Article, September, 01 2004
David Bacon
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T he debate over immigration has become a global one. According to the Geneva-based Migrant Watch, over 130 million people live outside the countries in which they were born. All over the world hug...
Crane: Interview with Utah Phillips
Zmag Article, August, 01 2004
Carolyn Crane
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A fter Bruce Phillips returned to the U.S. after his tour in post-war Korea, he hopped freight trains around the nation and listened to the stories of the destitute and forgotten. He landed in Utah...
