December 18, 2007 (first in a series) Like an oil tanker hurtling toward a shoal, the world, the U.S., and the labor movement are being forced to make a radical change of course by the emerging threat of global warming. The recent UN conference on climate change, held in Bali last December, showed representatives… Read More »
CHINA’S EMERGING LABOR MOVEMENT
December 13, 2007 Trade unionists in the US and elsewhere have long argued that there is no labor movement in China. They rightly point out that Chinese workers lack even the most basic human rights protections, including the rights to strike and join an independent union. But there’s more to the story: Ten years… Read More »
LABOR GOES TO BALI – II
December 2, 2007 At the outset of the nuclear era, Albert Einstein said, “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” The same could be said today regarding global warming. Fortunately, we’re getting some glimmerings of a change in the modes… Read More »
LABOR GOES TO BALI
November 25, 2007 This week trade unionists from around the world will travel to Bali for the December 3rd launch of negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gasses. It will include delegates from such U.S unions as the Electrical Workers (IUE), Mine Workers, Service Employees, Boilermakers, Steelworkers, Communication Workers, Transport… Read More »
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