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Znet Article Winslow: New York’s Locked-Out Utility Workers Try to Beat the Heat

Znet Article, July, 11 2012 Samantha Winslow
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In recent lockouts, many unions have had to accept serious concessions to get members back to work

Znet Article Fletcher: There is No Substitute for Organizing: How Unions Might Help Win Future Battles

Znet Article, July, 10 2012 Bill Fletcher
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The sooner unions stop acting like a special interest and start behaving like a social movement; the closer we will be to making lasting, positive change

Znet Article Krehbiel: Walmart Workers March in L.A., Saying ‘No Thanks’ to New Stores

Znet Article, July, 08 2012 Paul Krehbiel
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More than 4,000 union members and community supporters, including many Walmart workers, marched in Los Angeles

Znet Article Brecher: After the Failure of Rio+20: A Human Preservation Movement?

Znet Article, July, 07 2012 Jeremy Brecher
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How can people power force the changes that are necessary to ensure human survival?

Commentary Meister: Bread and Roses

Commentary, July, 07 2012 Dick Meister
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Bread and roses was the battle cry of thousands of striking women and their supporters

Commentary Rosenstein: Organizing: Aim the Slingshot Well

Commentary, July, 05 2012 Hetty Rosenstein
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Our enemy is big, rich, and bad

Commentary Bloice: Public Workers and their Unions Endure Constant "Austerity" Attack

Commentary, July, 02 2012 Carl Bloice
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It never ceases to amaze me how some people who are rich and famous are so quick to declare that others, who are neither, should have to suffer pain

Znet Article Hart: Hold Tight To Your Anger

Znet Article, June, 30 2012 Al Hart
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Springsteen gives voice to the working class - again

Znet Article Heires: Reflections on AFSCME's 40th Convention: Public Employees Elect New Leader in a Time of Crisis

Znet Article, June, 29 2012 Gregory N. Heires
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The country's largest public employee union has elected its first African-American president, who stands to become perhaps the leading voice in organized labor's fight-back

Commentary Qasim: Londoners Organize As The Olympics Swallow Up Their Communities

Commentary, June, 25 2012 Wail Qasim
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Activists will be defending community spaces in London both from enclosure and security in the run up to, during and after the Olympic spectacle comes to town

Znet Article Meister: Want Better Health? Join A Union, Says Mom

Znet Article, June, 23 2012 Dick Meister
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A Duke Uniersity study showed that many more unionized workers who consider themselves healthy than there are non-union workers who say they're healthy

Znet Article Phinney: How Can Labor Combat Obama's Secret 'NAFTA of the Pacific'?

Znet Article, June, 20 2012 Cynthia Phinney
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The latest project of corporations seeking to ease movement of capital around the globe is the Trans Pacific Partnership known by activists as “NAFTA of the Pacific”

Znet Article Wolff: Lost Elections' Strategic Lessons for Workers' Movements Everywhere

Znet Article, June, 19 2012 Richard D. Wolff
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American history teaches that it requires building a robust alliance between labor unions and movements seriously committed to an anti-capitalist agenda for social change

Znet Article Winslow: California Labor Wars

Znet Article, June, 16 2012 Cal Winslow
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California’s healthcare workers’ wars continue, in the streets, in collective bargaining and in the courts, at a level of conflict not often matched in the US today

Znet Article Finger: Did Organized Money Defeat Organized Labor?

Znet Article, June, 16 2012 Barry Finger
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The more labor supports the Democrats, the more labor is treated by them with scorn and contempt

Znet Article Early: Will Wisconsin Wake-Up Call Lead to AFSCME Shake-Up?

Znet Article, June, 15 2012 Steve Early
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The rollback of collective bargaining gains and, in Wisconsin, the virtual elimination of bargaining, has given activists a sense of urgency about shaking up leadership

Znet Article Network: What Went Wrong In Wisconsin And Where Does Labor Go From Here?

Znet Article, June, 15 2012 Emergency Labor Network
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The Wisconsin experience underscores the need for the U.S. labor movement to establish its own class-based labor party

Commentary Cooke: The U.S. Labor Movement at the Crossroads, in the Crosshairs

Commentary, June, 13 2012 Shamus Cooke
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Although the defeat in Wisconsin is the horrible end to a local drama, the corporate winners hope to turn their victory into the beginning chapter of a national novel

Znet Article Morrill: Locked Out at a Nuclear Plant

Znet Article, June, 13 2012 Chris Morrill
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A report on a lockout at a Massachusetts nuclear power plant--and argue that environmental activists have a stake in this fight

Znet Article Vorpahl: Learning from Wisconsin

Znet Article, June, 13 2012 Mark Vorpahl
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The defeat of the recall was a rejection of relying on the Democratic Party. It was not a rejection of grass roots struggles against austerity

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