April 1, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith an Jeremy Brecher Today they’d be called “green-collar jobs” – cleaning up the environment. Back then, the workers who performed those jobs were just garbage men. And they were treated like garbage. Martin Luther King Jr. died fighting to make their green-collar jobs be good jobs…. Read More »
HOW GREEN IS YOUR COLLAR?
March 27, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher As cities and states from New York to California to Minnesota race to invent policies to address global warming, new mandates for investment in green energy will produce many billions of investment dollars. In the short run, the Bush Administration stands in… Read More »
BEYOND CHINA’S NEW LABOR CONTRACT LAW
January 10, 2008 China’s new labor code went into effect on January 1. It could have important consequences for workers in China and in the rest of the world. The Financial Times on January 2 reports that, Employers in China fear that a new labour contract law that took effect on Tuesday will intensify… 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 »
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