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As capitalism begins to emerge from the ‘Great Financial Crisis,’ there is good reason for working people to refrain from celebration. Though the roots of the crisis were in the private sector, it's clear that the bill will be primarily paid via t...

Gindin: Cadillac Fairview

Znet Article, March, 21 2010 Sam Gindin
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On March 5, 2010, after a conflict that stretched over almost 9 months, the maintenance and skilled trades workers of CEP (Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada) Local 2003 (affectionately known as the CF61) working in office tower...

Albo: In and Out of Crisis

Znet Article, March, 13 2010 Greg Albo
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ZNet book interview, Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, and Leo Panitch, In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives PM Press, 2010

Gindin: Challenges for Public Sector Unions

Znet Article, October, 25 2009 Sam Gindin
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Sam Gindin interviewed by PSAC's Our Union Voice

Gindin: The End of Retirement?

Znet Article, August, 25 2009 Sam Gindin
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The attack on private sector pensions is not new; while the process has been uneven across time and sectors, private pensions in the U.S. and Canada have been eroding for over a quarter of a century. In 1980, some 40% of U.S. private sector worker...

Gindin: Lessons from the Humbling of General Motors

Znet Article, July, 08 2009 Sam Gindin
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Of all 20th century industries, it was the auto sector that best captured the sway of capitalism and the rise of American dominance. The assembly line showed off capitalismâ€™s remarkable productive potential and the automobile flaunted capitalism...

Gindin: The Auto Crisis

Znet Article, April, 09 2009 Sam Gindin
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Deep economic crises violently interrupt daily lives and force more radical responses onto the public agenda. In the case of the North American auto industry however, that radicalism has been remarkably one-sided. Absent an alternative of their ow...

Panitch: From Global Finance to the Nationalization of the Banks

Znet Article, February, 25 2009 Leo Panitch
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Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis...

Gindin: Saving the Detroit Three, Finishing Off the UAW:

Znet Article, January, 01 2009 Sam Gindin
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At the end of 1979, President Carter offered loan guarantees to Chrysler to prevent the company's imminent bankruptcy. The loans were conditional on wage concessions of some 10% and the outsourcing of half of Chrysler's work. In August 1981 a newl...

Gindin: The Financial Crisis: Notes on Alternatives

Znet Article, November, 24 2008 Sam Gindin
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Over the last quarter century, the left in most of the developed world has been marginalized as a social force. The 'culture of possibilities' for left alternatives has correspondingly narrowed. But historic changes, above all the discrediting of ...

Panitch: The Current Crisis

Znet Article, September, 30 2008 Leo Panitch
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'They say they won't intervene. But they will.' This is how Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary, responded to Paul O'Neill, the first Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush, who openly criticized his predecessor's interventions in the...

Gindin: The CAW and Panic Bargaining

Znet Article, May, 10 2008 Sam Gindin
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In the face of a deteriorating economic climate and concerns about the 'investment competitiveness' of Canadian plants, the CAW leadership made a startling move this spring. It had an air of panic about it: it quietly asked the Big Three -- GM, F...

Gindin: The CAW and Magna: Disorganizing the Working Class

Znet Article, October, 20 2007 Sam Gindin
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In the neoconservative Canada of the late 1990s, the labour movement needs to become more militant, less accommodating to the demands of corporations and governments. If this sounds like a return to the days of the 1930s or 1950s, so be it. It's e...

Gindin: One Sided Class War:

Znet Article, October, 08 2007 Sam Gindin
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One Sided Class War:

Gindin: Is the Big Ship America Sinking?

Znet Article, February, 14 2007 Sam Gindin
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There's something happeningWhat it is ain't exactly clearBuffalo Springfield, 1966 Are we in the midst of a momentous turn in world politics? Donald Rumsfeld has been shuffled out of the Pentagon. Daniel Ortega, Washington's nemesis from the S...

Gindin: Concessions

Znet Article, March, 16 2006 Sam Gindin
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In the early 80s, the implications of neoliberalism were quickly revealed as the auto majors reversed four decades of steady growth in wages by successfully forcing concessions on the once powerful UAW. That working class defeat had not just conti...

Gindin: Beyond Nafta

Znet Article, April, 29 2004 Sam Gindin
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For many of us, it's hard to get excited about another review of NAFTA's economic successes or failures. It's not that such an economic review is irrelevant -- coping with the economic implications of NAFTA obviously remains central to anyone conc...

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