October 29, 2009 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher On June 7, 2006, a 28-year-old Army lieutenant named Ehren Watada released a video press statement announcing that he was refusing to deploy to Iraq because the Iraq War was illegal and his “participation would make me party to war crimes.” After three years… Read More »
UNIONS NEED TO SEVER ALL TIES WITH ANTI-CLIMATE BILL GROUPS
October 22, 2009 Under escalating pressure from activists, Nike, the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and others have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies. It’s time for labor unions to follow suit by cutting all ties with groups opposing climate legislation like the… Read More »
LABOR’S STAKE IN CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19, 2009 Climate change will directly affect most American workplaces not in some theoretical future but in the working lives of those now in the industry. And their unions will be affected right along with them. New Orleans was perhaps the most highly unionized city in the South. But when Katrina hit, unions… Read More »
LESSONS FROM HARD TIMES PAST
July 23, 2009 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Women sew garments for the needy as part of a stimulus project sponsored by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. We’re all struggling with how to think – and what to do – in the face of the “great recession.” An… Read More »
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