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Znet Article Walshe: How America's Fast Food Industry Makes a Quick Buck

Znet Article, April, 18 2013 Sadhbh Walshe
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Fast food companies are not only unembarrassed about how they exploit their workers, but they actually seem to think they are doing their employees a favor

Znet Article Early: The Big Do-Over at Kaiser

Znet Article, April, 13 2013 Steve Early
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Which way will 45,000 California healthcare workers swing? The answer has major implications for labor

Znet Article Slaughter: Can Worker-Owners Make a Big Factory Run?

Znet Article, April, 07 2013 Jane Slaughter
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With about the same workforce, the plant is producing 50 percent more tires than before it was closed

Znet Article Eidelson: Fast Food Workers Plan Surprise Strike

Znet Article, April, 04 2013 Josh Eidelson
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Workers in some 50 restaurants expected to walk off job, potentially shutting down several eateries today

Znet Article Meister: We Owe Much To Cesar Chavez

Znet Article, April, 03 2013 Dick Meister
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Congress should finally extend to all Americans the basic right of unionization that Cesar Chavez spent his life seeking and defending

Commentary Gottesdiener: What Does It Take To Organize A Workplace?

Commentary, April, 02 2013 Laura Gottesdiener
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“Everyone has the pain and anger inside. “And we are going to be liberated tomorrow. It’s all going to explode.”

Znet Article Webb: What I Learned From The Immokalee Workers

Znet Article, April, 02 2013 Sam Webb
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I was impressed by the determination, spirit, and organization of these workers that, for more than a decade, have been battling the powerful food industry

Znet Article Burnham: Lean In and One Percent Feminism

Znet Article, March, 28 2013 Linda Burnham
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Nearly all sectors of the feminist movement figured out a long, long time ago that having it all is not an option in the absence of fundamental societal change

Znet Article Soederberg: The Brics’ Dangerous Endorsement Of ‘Financial Inclusion’

Znet Article, March, 28 2013 Susanne Soederberg
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The increased frequency and intensity of financial debacles has made the South, and especially the poor therein, more susceptible to the aftershocks of speculative-led accumulation

Znet Article Vorpahl: Detroit Citizen's Prepare to Fight Their Corporate Master

Znet Article, March, 21 2013 Mark Vorpahl
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Fresh from shoving his "Right to Work for Less" legislation down the throats of Michigan's workers, Governor Rick Snyder has grown bolder in pursuing a corporate agenda

Video IWW: IWW (Wobblies) Tribute to Lonnie Ray Atkinson's "Begging for your Life"

Video, March, 20 2013 IWW
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Music video about the struggle of working people for dignity and the repression against the International Workers Of the World (IWW)

Znet Article Oikonomakis: Halkidiki: Where Neither Numbers Nor People Thrive

Znet Article, March, 18 2013 Leonidas Oikonomakis
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An economistic, centally-planned, income-based developmental approach that doesn’t take into account the local needs and communities, at times leads to a situation in which “the numbers thrive but the people suffer

Znet Article Söderberg: Means of Production

Znet Article, March, 18 2013 Johan Söderberg
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Digital manufacturing with 3D printers is for some enthusiasts an anti-consumer concept, promising a return to a craft ethos. But this may not be the real future of the technique

Znet Article Brown: Fashion Models Shatter Stereotypes, Demand Labor Rights

Znet Article, March, 11 2013 Jenny Brown
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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

Znet Article Moberg: Labor’s Turnaround

Znet Article, March, 10 2013 David Moberg
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Without the people, resources and experience with collective action that union members provide, any new democracy movement will be much weaker

Znet Article Cooke: Democrats and Labor: A Tale of Abuse

Znet Article, March, 09 2013 Shamus Cooke
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The Democratic Party’s participation in the recent national “sequester” cuts is yet another big dent in their love affair with organized labor

Znet Article Early: Why Labor Should Be Wary About “Wellness”

Znet Article, February, 28 2013 Steve Early
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American workers who don’t want their boss playing “wellness cop” need both short-term legal protection and a longer-term political solution

Znet Article Saldana: ALEC's Plan to Kill Union Jobs Everywhere -- Even Outside the U.S.

Znet Article, February, 21 2013 Dave Saldana
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Indiana passed ALEC's anti-union legislation, and Caterpillar moved the works to Muncie. And that's bad for everybody

Znet Article Steel: Enough Arsing About, Let’s Sort Out The World

Znet Article, February, 21 2013 Mark Steel
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Right, that’s enough, now what are we going to do about it?

Znet Article Oldfield: The Lincoln Myth: Social Mobility in America

Znet Article, February, 21 2013 Ken Oldfield
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. Ability is stretched or stunted by the family that you live with, and the neighbourhood you live in – by the school you go to and the poverty or the richness of your surroundings

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