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Zmag Article Lazaroff: Steelworkers Face Off Against Kaiser

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Leon Lazaroff
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Like most workers at Kaiser Aluminum Corp.’s plant in Gramercy, Louisiana, Ray Scroggs never thought he’d still be out of work 20 months after talks between his union, the United Steelworkers of America, and company man...

Zmag Article Sinyai: Battle of Brooklyn's Domino Sugar

Zmag Article, May, 01 2000 Clayton Sinyai
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Now well into its eighth month, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1814’s strike against the Domino Sugar refinery in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is a good example of what workers can expe...

Zmag Article Bacon: The Poor Fight For UNAM

Zmag Article, April, 01 2000 David Bacon
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In early February, when Mexico’s Federal government moved to end the strike at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), its action was motivated less by concern over the fate of the institution and its students, and much m...

Zmag Article Bacon: Will A Social Clause In Trade Agreements Advance International Solidarity?

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 David Bacon
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David Bacon On November 30 the AFL-CIO mobilized thousands of union members to demonstrate in Seattle outside the meeting of trade ministers of the World Trade Organization. The labor federation called for incor...

Zmag Article Bacon: Dried Garlic And A Busted Union

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 David Bacon
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David Bacon & Bill Berkowitz King City, California is a tough agricultural town about an hour south of Salinas. In King City, vegetables are king—people mostly work in the fields picking them, or in the huge Basic Vegetable Products p...

Zmag Article Bacon: Miners' Strike Broken in Cananea

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 David Bacon
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Miners' Strike Broken in Cananea

Zmag Article Bacon: Liverpool Dockers

Zmag Article, February, 01 1999 David Bacon
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Liverpool Dockers

Zmag Article Bacon: Union Wins Election At Ucsf Stanford Healthcare

Zmag Article, January, 01 1999 David Bacon
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Union Wins Election At Ucsf Stanford Healthcare

Zmag Article Bacon: title("Fraud In Oakland's Garbage Sweatshop")

Zmag Article, December, 01 1998 David Bacon
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title("Fraud In Oakland's Garbage Sweatshop")

Zmag Article Gallagher: Everybody Loved It, But...

Zmag Article, November, 01 1998 Tom Gallagher
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  Everyone was telling us, ‘You’re golden’,” Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project (LAMAP) founder Peter Olney recalls. In 1995 the organization did seem charmed, its success seemingly guaranteed by its arrival...

Zmag Article Bacon: The GM Strike

Zmag Article, September, 01 1998 David Bacon
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The GM Strike By David Bacon Ending the strike of two auto parts plants near Detroit—a process which used to take just a few days—has instead lasted weeks. But delay and stubborn conflict is not the most unique fa...

Zmag Article Crotty: Labor Resistance in Korea

Zmag Article, September, 01 1998 Jim Crotty
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  Labor Resistance in Korea By Jim Crotty & Gary Dymski     Since our article in the July-August issue, Asia has fallen into a self-reinforcing regional collapse. It may be at the edge of...

Zmag Article Herman: The U.S. Jobs Miracle

Zmag Article, July, 01 1998 Edward Herman
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  In both Europe and the United States, the substantial growth in U.S. jobs over the past several decades has been repeatedly cited in support of the view that a “flexible” labor market is the solution to the problem of ...

Zmag Article Brecher: Labor Update: Organizing the New Workforce

Zmag Article, July, 01 1998 Jeremy Brecher
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Jeremy Brecher   Traditionally, the majority of American union members have been blue-collar white males. Over the past quarter-century, this group became a smaller and smaller minority in the workforce, while other groups—somet...

Zmag Article Crotty: The Korean Struggle

Zmag Article, July, 01 1998 James Crotty
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& Gary Dymski Just a few months after getting a clean bill of economic health from the OECD in mid 1997, South Korea’s economy plunged into a foreign exchange crisis. By December the Korean government had signed a loan agreeme...

Zmag Article Administrator: NYU's Chinese Construction Workers

Zmag Article, July, 01 1998 Site Administrator
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Stinnett   At the New York University (NYU) main building in downtown Manhattan—the building where, in 1911, a sweatshop garment factory fire killed 146 young immigrant workers—a handful of immigrant Chinese construct...

Zmag Article Bacon: High-Tech Transportation Workers

Zmag Article, June, 01 1998 David Bacon
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High-Tech Transportation Workers

Zmag Article Brecher: Resisting Concessions

Zmag Article, May, 01 1998 Jeremy Brecher
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  While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did take place were in resistance to management demands for concessions. Three of the most important—and...

Zmag Article Bacon: MAQUILADORA WORKERS ELECT THEIR FIRST INDEPENDENT UNION

Zmag Article, January, 01 1998 David Bacon
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MAQUILADORA WORKERS ELECT THEIR FIRST INDEPENDENT UNION

Zmag Article Brecher: American Labor on the Eve of the Millennium

Zmag Article, December, 01 1997 Jeremy Brecher
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  This is the first in a series of articles on the history of rank-and-file labor struggles over the past 25 years. It is drawn from the new concluding chapter Jeremy Brecher has written for the 25th anniversary edition...

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