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December 22, 2005
A Fight for the Future
New York City transit workers, now back on the job after a two-day strike, are fighting for the rights of future workers and against the lie that abstract, neutral economic necessity, not the ideas and interests of the rich and powerful, are driving the demolition of what remains of social solidarity.
Joshua Freeman
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December 21, 2005
Bitter Winter at NYU
Striking graduate teaching assistants and NYU administrators are hunkered down for a protracted fight, as President John Sexton has threatened strikers with loss of their teaching stipend and ability to teach. This could have a chilling effect on campus union organizing nationwide.
Scott Sherman
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September 15, 2005
NYU’s Poison Ivy Itch
When one of New York’s biggest and most liberal institutions gets into the business of union-busting, it’s hardly an internal matter.
Andrew Ross
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August 25, 2005
Solidarity, 25 Years Later
That brief explosion in Gdansk of civic participation and political innovation contains secrets and gems of political ideals that can be achieved.
David Ost
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August 12, 2005
The Resurgence of Movement Politics
David Sirota calls progressives to action with a plan for a grassroots movement that unites fragmented factions.David Sirota
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August 11, 2005
States of Disunion
In the wake of the labor split, nothing revolutionary or even progressive is discernible in this schism.
JoAnn Wypijewski
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August 3, 2005
A Welcome Return to Enforcing Labor Laws
The abysmal cases of slave labor in the US are both shocking and terribly mundane.
Robert Scheer
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July 28, 2005
Labor Splits
In the aftermath of the labor split, both sides must get beyond recriminations and hold themselves to common goals.
The Editors
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July 28, 2005
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July 26, 2005