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Armas: Bay Area Grocery Workers
Zmag Article, June, 01 2004
Javier Armas
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U -F-C-W! Safeway, we’re coming through!” chanted hundreds of UFCW members and officials at a meeting held on March 14 at the ILWU Local 10 Hall in San Francisco. This meeting was the f...
Howard: The Women of Monclova
Zmag Article, February, 01 2004
Alan Howard
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M ore than a year later, Leonor Castillo is still a very angry woman. She sits at the kitchen table of her two-room cinderblock house and talks in a gentle voice that mutes the rage about her six y...
Bacon: Labor Organizing
Zmag Article, September, 01 2003
David Bacon
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W olfgang Mueller is the top organizer for the German union at IG Metall’s campaign among high-tech workers, including those at the Siemens Electrical Corporation. DAVI...
Gaus: Worker Co-ops
Zmag Article, August, 01 2003
Mischa Gaus
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T here are around 300 worker-owned businesses in the United States, totaling about 10,000 workers, according to recent figures from the Grassroots Economic Organizing newsletter, the movement&rsquo...
Dearden: Mayday Colombia
Zmag Article, August, 01 2003
Nick Dearden
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D espite the horrors that face those fighting for better societies across the world, there are few countries on earth where trade union leaders can only access their offices by climbing out of bull...
Baldwin: Hold The Pepperoni: Tyson Workers On Strike
Zmag Article, August, 01 2003
Ricky Baldwin
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S triking meatpackers in Jefferson, Wisconsin have their collective finger in a dyke. Their strike and boycott of Tyson-made pizza toppings is virtually all that stands between thousands of wo...
Bacon: Fear of Firing
Zmag Article, June, 01 2003
David Bacon
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I n a landmark opinion, Brooklyn judge, Steven Davis, a hearing officer for the National Labor Relations Board, ordered Extreme Building Services, an asbestos removal company, to stop “physic...
Bacon: The Barbed Wire Straitjacket
Zmag Article, February, 01 2003
David Bacon
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I n 1981, when President Ronald Reagan replaced thousands of air traffic controllers and threw their leaders in jail, the permanent replacement of strikers became a normal aspect of U.S. labor rela...
Smith: The Corporatization of Unions
Zmag Article, July, 01 2002
Jim Smith
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Jim Smith Nearly every poll shows that workers favor having a union by a large majority. According to an Associated Press poll (August 30, 2001) “General appro...
Bacon: The Fruits Of NAFTA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
David Bacon
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The Fruits Of NAFTA
Jayadev: Unions Must Tap Young Workers
Zmag Article, February, 01 2002
Raj Jayadev
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Unions Must Tap Young Workers
Devries: Airline Layoffs, Worker Concessions
Zmag Article, January, 01 2002
Joshua Devries
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Airline Layoffs, Worker Concessions
Mccallum: United Brotherhood of Carpenters Union
Zmag Article, September, 01 2001
Jamie Mccallum
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United Brotherhood of Carpenters Union
Bacon: Employer Sanctions
Zmag Article, July, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Employer Sanctions
Administrator: Sitting-In at Harvard
Zmag Article, July, 01 2001
Site Administrator
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Sitting-In at Harvard
Bacon: Paolo Friere Hits LAx92s Mean Streets
Zmag Article, March, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Paolo Friere Hits LAx92s Mean Streets
Bacon: Junked Workers Test NAFTA
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
David Bacon
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Plant managers called them the “jonkeados”—the junked ones. They were workers who got so sick, so chronically disabled, that they were given special jobs. But they weren’t put on “light duty,” to tide them over un...
Minnich: COSATU Conference
Zmag Article, February, 01 2001
Rebecca Minnich
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On a brilliantly sunny November afternoon in Cape Town, 12 seasoned labor organizers are gathered in conference at the Western Cape headquarters of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). For weeks COSATU leaders in the Western ...
Bacon: Unions Take On Immigration-Related Firings
Zmag Article, July, 01 2000
David Bacon
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Unions Take On Immigration-Related Firings
