December 9, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, & Jeremy Brecher; Edited by John Feffer There’s growing support for fighting global economic stagnation and global warming simultaneously with a “green New Deal” nationally and globally. Investing to cut greenhouse gasses can create “green jobs” and provide fiscal stimulus while it is protecting the planet…. 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 »
TODAY’S ECONOMIC CRISIS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
November 24, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, and Jeremy Brecher The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is “the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history.” The International Monetary Fund says, “In advanced economies,… 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 »
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