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Brown: Paid Sick Leave, At Last?
Znet Article, May, 15 2013
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Will the U.S. join the rest of the world and guarantee workers paid sick leave?
Brown: Student Guestworkers Pressure McDonald's
Commentary, March, 16 2013
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Foreign students on cultural exchange visas walked off the job again March 6, this time from three McDonald’s restaurants near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Brown: Fashion Models Shatter Stereotypes, Demand Labor Rights
Znet Article, March, 11 2013
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
It’s hard to ignore the fact that fashion employers’ economic interest in a compliant, young, powerless workforce—happens to match their taste in what is fashionable
Brown: Climate Change Is Drowning Out ‘Jobs vs. Environment’ Debate
Znet Article, February, 17 2013
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
More unions than ever have signed up to join environmentalists for a demonstration in Washington, D.C. against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
Brown: In Walmart and Fast Food, Unions Scaling Up a Strike-First Strategy
Znet Article, January, 24 2013
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
What’s the strategy behind the latest surprising wave of activism?
Brown: In a Year of Politicians and Bad News, Surprising Stories of Resistance
Commentary, December, 23 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
It’s clear that many workers are willing to walk a tightrope, even if victory seems a long way off
Brown: Enough With the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers
Znet Article, November, 23 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Part-time workers are demanding an end to erratic scheduling and a chance to work enough hours to survive
Brown: Walmart Nervous as Black Friday Strike Nears
Znet Article, November, 22 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Plans for Black Friday walkouts at Walmart stores have spread dramatically, in what has been dubbed the first “viral strike”
Brown: Workers in the Northeast Come Face to Face with Climate Change
Znet Article, November, 02 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
The concept of “rising oceans” suddenly became real this week on the New Jersey coastline and in lower Manhattan
Brown: Immigrants and Unions Work To Oust Notorious Arizona Sheriff
Znet Article, October, 22 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Latino workers in the Phoenix area are fighting back against the bullying sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio
Brown: Unions Expect Verizon to Impose Terms, Ready to Walk Out Again
Znet Article, August, 03 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
After 12 months of fruitless negotiations, 45,000 IBEW across the Northeast may be putting down their tools and walking out again
Brown: Hotel Workers Tell Hyatt to Feel Their Pain as Boycott Grows
Znet Article, July, 28 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Most union Hyatt workers have been without a contract for three years
Brown: Ending Lockout, Teamsters Wrap Agreement With Sotheby’s
Znet Article, June, 06 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
The union’s creative tactics put a spotlight on inequality in the most unequal city in the U.S.
Brown: Not Just a Cheaper Pair of Hands
Znet Article, March, 18 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Women workers are attacking low pay and bias from many angles
Brown: A Shallow Victory on Living Wages in New York City
Znet Article, February, 25 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
The conversation about low wages has changed, leading to serious discussions in Albany
Brown: Can Labor Organize the Unemployed?
Znet Article, February, 16 2012
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Unions are still grappling with how to organize the unemployed, including their own ex-members, into a political force
Brown: Big Box Scheduling Leaves Workers Exhausted and Broke
Znet Article, December, 25 2011
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
OUR Walmart members reported that their hours were being cut even as the holidays hit, creating a one-two punch of frantic shifts and financial anxiety
Brown: Workers Challenge Big Food
Znet Article, December, 06 2011
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Workers along the food chain are seeking to make common cause with each other and against the corporations that run the food industry
Brenner: At Sotheby’s and Beyond, ‘Occupy’ Movement Boosts Unions
Znet Article, November, 12 2011
Mark Brenner
Brenner's ZSpace page
The most important lessons union activists should soak up from time spent shoulder to shoulder with the occupiers are their audacity and their commitment to direct democracy
Brown: Labor Throws Weight Behind Wall Street Occupation
Znet Article, October, 08 2011
Jenny Brown
Brown's ZSpace page
Unions and activists are rushing to the Wall Street occupation to return the nation’s focus to the executives, bankers, and politicians who got us into this mess
