March 21, 2007 In a previous blog we described an unanticipated upheaval by 27,000 Egyptian textile workers in Mahala El-Kobra (also translated as Mahalla al-Kubra) that occurred at the end of last year. Faced with denial of their year-end bonus, fearing privatization of their company, and disgusted with the corruption of their employers, they… Read More »
IN THE SHADOW OF THE PYRAMIDS
March 14, 2007 Their payment was three weeks late and their supervisors notorious for corruption. So Egyptian workers at Deir El-Medina stopped work and walked out. The year was approximately 1500 BC. It may have been history’s first recorded strike. At the very end of 2006AD another group of Egyptian workers, angered at the… Read More »
GUANTANAMO, DRED SCOTT, AND THE AMISTAD
March 12, 2007 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Can a US court declare that a group of human beings have no rights and can be enslaved or abused at will with no legal recourse? That question will soon be coming before the Supreme Court. In the last days of 2006, the GOP-led… Read More »
GLOBALIZING WORKERS RIGHTS
March 11, 2007 For generations, workers in the United States and other countries around the world have fought for the right to organize, bargain collectively, and strike. These rights have been increasingly contested in the era of neoliberalism. In response, some in the labor movement have been seeking new ways to ground these rights…. Read More »
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