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Cunningham-Cook: How Workers Are Using Globalization Against Walmart
Commentary, October, 26 2012
Matthew Cunningham-Cook
Cunningham-Cook's ZSpace page
The Walmart strikes are part of a significant reevaluation of organizing strategy by labor unions and activists in the context of the continuing decline of unionism
Street: Money Talks in Many Ways: Election-Season Reflections on How the Ruling Class Rules
Znet Article, October, 25 2012
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Election-season reflections on how the ruling class rules
Sciacchitano: Making Labor Pay
Znet Article, October, 21 2012
Katherine Sciacchitano
Sciacchitano's ZSpace page
As union density shrinks, fighting for universal benefits will broaden the political playing field
Schulte: Is It A Woman's World Now?
Commentary, October, 20 2012
Elizabeth Schulte
Schulte's ZSpace page
If conditions and opportunities for women have improved at all, it's because there was a struggle to improve them
Vorpahl: Workers Stand Up to Walmart
Commentary, October, 15 2012
Mark Vorpahl
Vorpahl's ZSpace page
The conditions and wages that Walmart workers currently are subjected to have created a downward pressure for retail employees and the entire working class
Moberg: En Masse and Without Precedent, Walmart Workers Rise Up
Znet Article, October, 15 2012
David Moberg
Moberg's ZSpace page
The Walmart actions have been catalyzed by poor working conditions and alleged company retaliation against those who air grievances
Eidelson: Strikes at Walmart Stores, Warehouses Spread to 12 States: Is the Retail Giant in Trouble?
Znet Article, October, 14 2012
Josh Eidelson
Eidelson's ZSpace page
Interview on Wal-Mart workers standing up and fighting back
Lichtenstein: Why Walmart, Why Now?
Znet Article, October, 13 2012
Nelson Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein's ZSpace page
Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein sheds light on the new surge of Walmart protests
Boeing: "No Nerds, No Birds"
Commentary, October, 13 2012
Employee at Boeing
Boeing's ZSpace page
A showdown is taking shape between Boeing and the aerospace giant's engineers and technical professionals
Lakey: Coming Out As Working Class
Znet Article, October, 12 2012
George Lakey
Lakey's ZSpace page
“Inclusive strategizing” brings both external and internal elements to a campaign to free it from classist sludge and liberate people from all the classes
Bradbury: Walmart Warehouse Strikers Return to Work with Full Back Pay
Commentary, October, 10 2012
Alexandra Bradbury
Bradbury's ZSpace page
Strikers have returned to work with their heads held high and their wallets full at Walmart’s largest North American distribution center
Wainwright: Unleashing The Creativity Of Labour
Znet Article, October, 04 2012
Hilary Wainwright
Wainwright's ZSpace page
We need to create not simply full employment, but the conditions by which people can creatively collaborate to meet the needs of a changing society and a precarious planet
McQuaig: Mitt Romney Blurts Out The Truth About Neo-Conservatism
Znet Article, October, 02 2012
Linda McQuaig
McQuaig's ZSpace page
Romney has so vividly exposed the cynicism and greed that lies at the heart of what is now called “conservatism” that he may have inadvertently begun its undoing
Gindin: Culture Of Concessions Has Gutted Organized Labour
Znet Article, September, 30 2012
Sam Gindin
Gindin's ZSpace page
Unions will have to demonstrate in practice that they are leaders in the fight for needed social services, that they have ideas for job creation
Meister: Danger and Death In the Tobacco Fields
Commentary, September, 27 2012
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
There are nearly 100,000 tobacco harvesters, some as young as 12, most of them Mexican immigrants
Lopez: Koch Brothers Try To Kill California Unions
Znet Article, September, 25 2012
Juan Lopez
Lopez's ZSpace page
While payroll deductions are vital to unions' political activity, corporations usually rely instead on company funds and donations from executives
Gaus: South African Miners Win through Wildcats
Znet Article, September, 24 2012
Mischa Gaus
Gaus's ZSpace page
South African miners won a dramatic pay increase in September, following a wave of strikes that spread to many gold and platinum mines
Uetricht: Advanced Placement
Znet Article, September, 24 2012
Micah Uetricht
Uetricht's ZSpace page
The Chicago Teachers Union is poised to lead in the next school-reform fights
Kellecioglu: The Economics Behind The Killings Of South African Mine Workers
Znet Article, September, 14 2012
Deniz Kellecioglu
Kellecioglu's ZSpace page
Any uprising against the prevailing conditions is seen as an act of disobedience, which “disturbs the functioning of the “markets”
Moran: Behind the Chicago Teachers Strike
Commentary, September, 11 2012
Theresa Moran
Moran's ZSpace page
Chicago teachers are on strike today to demand smaller classes, much-needed student services, and stability for a profession that’s battling a corporate takeover


