Workers Memorial Day
Esther Kaplan : Unions
This week marked Workers Memorial Day, when unions and advocacy organizations held memorials and protests to honor those who have died on the job.
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Does the Pope Care About Workers' Rights?
Angela Bonavoglia : Catholicism & Catholics
On his first papal visit to America, will Pope Benedict address the real problems confronting the Catholic Church?
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How Green Is Your Collar?
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello & Brendan Smith : Environment
Labor leaders and environmentalists meet to explore how to make green jobs good jobs for American workers.
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Labor's New Deal
Andy Stern : Budget
Where the New Deal once served to rebalance the power between labor and capital, we are now perilously out of balance.
2006
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Dueling Over Delphi
When Delphi declared bankruptcy, cutting workers' wages, pensions and healthcare, auto unions in Indiana drew the line. Now they are prepared to strike or take work-to-rule actions.
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Labor Pains
Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.
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Employee Free Choice
George Miller : State of the Union
Pass the Employee Free Choice Act to create more unions, keep workers safe from labor-law violations, preserve middle-class jobs and stabilize the economy.
2005
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Barbara Ehrenreich's White Collar Blues
Barbara Ehrenreich probes a deeper level of white-collar angst: people who lose or quit their corporate jobs and routinely spend months, even years, finding another.
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Timid Democrats, Muscular Unions
David Sirota : US Politics & Government
A dozen Democrats are feeling timid about opposing Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr., while a score of unions and grassroots organizations are showing muscle against CAFTA.
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Euroland vs. Dollarland?
Eurolabor is asking what's in the new European Monetary Union for workers.
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Labor Splits
: Unions
In the aftermath of the labor split, both sides must get beyond recriminations and hold themselves to common goals.
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Look Who's Walking
David Moberg reports on the union dissidents leaving the AFL-CIO.
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Labor Splits Open
As its July convention approaches, the AFL-CIO is on the brink of a major break-up.
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Columbia Unbecoming
Jennifer Washburn : Higher Education
An internal memo urges retaliation against graduate students who want a union.
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The Terminator Stumbles
Arnold Schwarzenegger now holds a markedly weakened hand.
2004
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Take It to the Blue States
Thomas Geoghegan : Wages & Hours
Maybe labor should give up on Washington in favor of friendlier terrain.
2003
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Class Warfare
David Bacon : Higher Education
Labor studies programs are under attack by a well-financed right-wing campaign.
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Let Freedom Roll
Julie Quiroz-Martínez : Immigration to the US
Immigrants hit the road for civil rights.
2001
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AFL-CIO Opens its Convention: Back to the Barricades
The AFL-CIO is calling for a renewal of vigorous, partisan politics on behalf of American working families.
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Working-Class Heroes
Joshua B. Freeman : New York City
It ought not to require mass death to remind us who keeps NYC functioning day after day after day.
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'Changing to Organize'
There are no simple formulas that guarantee union victory. Instead, union success depends on employing multifaceted strategies.
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Forum: Replies to Bronfenbrenner
Responses by Adolph Reed Jr., Kim Moody, Andrew E. Stern, Jorge Mancillas, Jennifer Gordon, Sherrod Brown, Bruce Colburn and Nelson Lichtenstein.
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Building to Win
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Student Movements
If the progressive movement is to oppose Bush's agenda, a new strategy is needed.
2000
This week: Will racism or sexism win the day? Plus: Esther Kaplan on workplace safety and Steven Greenhouse on the struggle facing younger workers. (13mb mp3)
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