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- Wednesday, May 09, 2012
ZNet Article The Vermont Progressive Party wields outsized influence on state politics -
- Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012
ZNet Article In Wisconsin and elsewhere, labor's recent defensive battles demonstrate that a new model of union functioning is not only possible but necessary for survival -
- Sunday, Mar 25, 2012
ZNet Article A new television series will “focus on the lives and struggles of members of Teamsters Local 25” -
- Friday, Feb 10, 2012
ZNet Article Local union reformers run for national union office -
- Thursday, Feb 02, 2012
ZNet Article The continuing struggle over which path to take at Kaiser—resistance to concessions or the non-adversarial approach embraced by SEIU—will intensify in the months to come -
- Friday, Jan 27, 2012
ZNet Article Three years ago this Friday (Jan. 27), Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern declared war on one-quarter of his California membership -
- Thursday, Jan 12, 2012
Commentary The strike that started on January 12, 1912 created political tremors far beyond the Merrimack Valley -
- Friday, Nov 25, 2011
ZNet Article Workers’ willingness to link their own contract fights to broader public concerns about the cost and quality of patient care may prove to be the better prescription for resisting concessions and reviving unions -
- Thursday, Nov 17, 2011
ZNet Article Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has given our timorous, unimaginative, and politically ambivalent unions a much-needed ideological dope slap -
- Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011
ZNet Article Workers are the 99 percent, and their organization as workers within the OWS framework could help to transform an uprising into a movement -
- Saturday, Oct 15, 2011
ZNet Article Change to Win was a mixed bag at best, more mirage than real, and hardly the second coming of the CIO -
- Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011
ZNet Article The continuing failure to unionize more than 80,000 workers at VZW and other non-union subsidiaries is the Achilles heel of organized labor at Verizon -
- Friday, Aug 12, 2011
ZNet Article The largest private sector work stoppage in the last seven years -
- Friday, Aug 05, 2011
ZNet Article More than 90 percent of the workers polled by CWA and IBEW in recent weeks have voted to authorize a strike -
- Monday, Jul 25, 2011
ZNet Article "Since the election, SEIU pulled out almost all of its staff and support, leaving individual workers to fend for themselves" -
- Sunday, Jul 03, 2011
ZNet Article “We used to have 2.2 million members. Now we’re down to 1.3 million Teamsters and these assholes are bragging about it?” -
- Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011
ZNet Article Sandy Pope is a most unusual candidate to succeed James P. Hoffa, the current Teamster president -
- Friday, Apr 29, 2011
ZNet Article Building real organization among home-based workers is more critical than ever before -
- Friday, Apr 08, 2011
ZNet Article Testimony from the hearing makes it clear that Kaiser turned its unlawful acts of February 2010 into official policy for the conduct of the next, much larger, election. ZNet Article Testimony from the hearing makes it clear that Kaiser turned its unlawful acts of February 2010 into official policy for the conduct of the next, much larger, election. ZNet Article Testimony from the hearing makes it clear that Kaiser turned its unlawful acts of February 2010 into official policy for the conduct of the next, much larger, election. -
- Sunday, Nov 14, 2010
ZNet Article --During the 1970s, a small slice of the trade union left was able to tap into working class discontent and workplace militancy in a very enduring way. -
- Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010
Commentary The stereotypical union battles of the past were fought by burly working-class heroes, on the picket-line and the proverbial “shop floor.” Think of tough-looking guys, wearing scally caps (and wielding baseball bats, when necessary), while marchin... -
- Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010
ZNet Article The real heroes of what’s left of the labor movement are not people with full-time union jobs, union-furnished cars and credit cards, and union benefits that dues-paying members don’t get anymore. -
- Thursday, Jul 08, 2010
ZNet Article In the last five years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has gone from being a media darling to generating more bad press for itself than any other labor organization. Some of SEIU’s negative publicity is a product of right-wing un... -
- Friday, Jul 02, 2010
ZNet Article As a longtime helper of labor organizing drives on the east coast—the largest of which involved 10,000 fewer workers in a public sector campaign thirty years ago—my hat is off to the formidable rank-and-file team that’s re-building unionism at Kai... -
- Monday, May 03, 2010
ZNet Article In a video message to members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) earlier this month, their longtime president, Andy Stern, tried to assuage any popular grief about his forthcoming retirement. He quoted from a Dr. Seuss story he of... -
- Saturday, Apr 17, 2010
ZNet Article Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern was always a fan of the blogosphere. So it was quite fitting that news of his imminent departure from SEIU first appeared, earlier this week, on several blogs. Andy bid SEIU members... -
- Tuesday, Apr 13, 2010
Commentary Legal lynching, actual or attempted, has been a longtime threat to union organizing. When workers first tried to form unions, they found themselves charged with conspiracy. For nearly a century, employer attempts to crush their "illegal combinat... -
- Saturday, Mar 06, 2010
ZNet Article Nearly one year after Massachusetts local makeover, California follows suit - All Most Recent Content
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