April 1, 1999 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher For the past decade, through both Republican and Democratic administrations, the U.S. government has promoted a model of free-market global capitalism that it claimed would benefit the great majority of people both at home and abroad. This model has failed. Key Points Unregulated global… Read More »
LABOR’S DAY: THE CHALLENGE AHEAD
September 21, 1998 by Tim Costello & Jeremy Brecher Organized labor, awakening from its quarter-century “era of stagnation,” finds itself, Rip Van Winkle-like, in a world transformed. While labor slept, corporations restructured, markets globalized, the postwar “class compromise” broke down, labor-endorsed economic policies failed and the working class itself was reconfigured. Labor will… Read More »
LABOR UPDATE: ORGANIZING THE NEW WORKFORCE
July 14, 1998 Women, immigrant, and minority workers develop new organizing approaches Traditionally, the majority of American union members have been blue-collar white males. Over the past quarter-century, this group became a smaller and smaller minority in the workforce, while other groups—sometimes dubbed “the new workforce”—grew as a percentage of organized and unorganized workers…. Read More »
RESISTING CONCESSIONS
May 14, 1998 This is the third in a series on rank-and-file labor struggles over the last 25 years While the number of strikes and strikers plummeted during the 1980s and 1990s, most of the major labor struggles that did take place were in resistance to management demands for concessions. Three of the most… Read More »
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