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Week In Review: Which Side Are You On?
November 28, 2009What happened to organized labor in the US? With the decline of manufacturing jobs and rise of female-dominated service fields, does the old labor union model still hold up, or do we need new ways of organizing and supporting workers? And what happened to solidarity?Which Side Are You On? Organizing Labor in America
November 24, 2009What happened to organized labor in the US? With the decline of manufacturing jobs and rise of female-dominated service fields, does the old labor union model still hold up, or do we need new ways of organizing and supporting workers? And what happened to solidarity?Which Side Are You On, The Body Toxic, and Matthew Hoh
November 23, 2009During the Great Depression, the labor movement was a major player pushing a progressive agenda and helping to put people back to work. While we've heard plenty of comparisons between the current recession and the Depression, we haven't seen a return of the kind of militancy that came from labor in the 20s and 30s. With all the anger swirling around right now, where's the organizing?San Francisco Strike for Health Care
November 17, 2009Hotel workers at the Grand Hyatt, many of them Chinese immigrants, were recently told that their new contract would require them to pay for their own health insurance, despite their full-time jobs doing physical labor. A couple of hundred dollars a month make a huge difference for the hotel workers, so they went on strike to protest the unfair labor practices.Sex, Lies and Sarah Palin, Amy Goodman, and Fighting Drones
November 16, 2009Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue: An American Life, comes out tomorrow, and the corporate media has been all Palin, all the time. We wonder just what it is about the former Alaskan governor that keeps people coming back for more. Is it her folksy ways, her sex appeal, her gender, or her willingness to completely disregard the advice of well-intentioned handlers?EFCA and the End of Civilization, the Smithfield Story, and Textile Workers in Puerto Rico
March 18, 2009Will EFCA make it through congress? We speak to Irasema Garza, Chris Kromm and others. Also, the story of how workers at the largest pork processing plant in North Carolina won union representation and why EFCA would have made the process a little easier. Finally, textile workers who make US military uniforms on their effort to organize.Labor's Coming Battle, Human Rights in Iran, and Following the Bailout Money
December 22, 2008Obama’s final cabinet choice is also his most progressive. Hilda Solis, the daughter of a Teamsters shop steward has been on the front lines of every big labor battle in Southern California in recent memory and has been very good on the issue of immigration, green jobs, and trade. The question is, will she have the president’s ear?UNITE HERE! America's Labor President
November 21, 2008Americans have been feeling it for months, but according to new survey from the National Association for Business Economics, 48 out of 50 economists now officially agree: the United States is in a recession. And who bears the brunt? Not the CEO’s who fly into Washington, DC on their private jets… It's American workers.The Right To Organize, Accidental Americans, and The Warning
November 20, 2008While Barack Obama's website acknowledges that the US economy that depends on millions of undocumented workers living in the shadows, the issue of immigration reform has remained there - in the shadows, glaring only in its absence from the Presidential debates and campaign coverage. Nonethless as the economy plunges ever deeper into crisis, the question remains as to how attitudes toward 11.9 million undocumented immigrant workers will or or won't changeDeath and Defiance at Cintas Industrial Laundry
October 23, 2008Imagine a washing machine 10' high, laundering 700 lbs of clothes. That machine leads to a dryer, just as large. Torres-Gomez was dragged off a conveyor belt and into one such 300-degree industrial dryer. The equipment had previously been found to be unsafe.
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