January 5, 2009 Global warming directly threatens virtually every individual, group, and nation. Climate protection represents the great common necessity for humanity. It is a concern for labor, its allies, and the globalization from below movement. Paradoxically, the slowing economy is reducing the production of greenhouse gases. But it is also leading to cuts in already inadequate… Read More »
LABOR’S DEAD: LONG LIVE LABOR!
December 4, 2008 It has been decades since Labor Day was a celebration of workers and trade unions as its 19th century founders intended it to be. Today, it marks the end of summer. Perhaps the local paper runs an op-ed or an article with a labor theme. Occasionally it prompts a bit of… Read More »
NEW TACTICS FOR LABOR – PART II
November 14, 2008 In the face of employer attack, the proportion of workers in unions fell from 27 percent in 1978 to 15 percent in 1996. Many changes contributed to declining union membership. The traditional industrial, cultural, and demographic base of the labor movement in white ethnic urban industrial communities was eroded by suburbanization… Read More »
SIGNS OF LIFE: GREEN ECONOMY
May 22, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher The organization Green for All, which unites green jobs advocates from disadvantaged communities around the country, drew 1,000 people to a conference in Memphis on the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Under the name “The Dream Reborn,” the conference… Read More »
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