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Labor poised for big win in Ohio – The Labor Movement – Salon.com
How is the issue playing in presidential politics? We’ve got a couple of the outside groups — Citizens United and FreedomWorks, which is a Washington-based Tea Party group — on the record saying that...
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Teaching With the Enemy – NYTimes.com
The teacher’s union isn’t evil, and charter schools aren’t THE answer. To put it another way, you simply cannot fix America’s schools by “scaling” charter schools. It won’t work. Charter schools offer...
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Occupy the Super Bowl: Now More Than Just a Slogan. | The Nation
The Republican-led state legislature aims to pass a law this week that would make Indiana a “right-to-work” state. … In the reality-based community, “right-to-work” means smashing the state’s unions...
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America’s last hope: A strong labor movement – The 99 Percent Plan – Salon.com
The labor movement is the critical anchor and enabler of democracy grounded on a notion of freedom. Most people have an intuitive understanding of what democracy means: rule by the people (as opposed...
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A famous Chicago factory gets Occupied – Occupy Chicago – Salon.com
Working alongside the union, Occupy Chicago gets results, in one-day, in a labor action: Whether because of the right’s overreach, the rise of Occupy, or both, struggles like the Serious occupation...
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Worker Ownership For the 21st Century? | The Nation
It may not be the revolution’s dawn, but it’s certainly a glint in the darkness. On Monday, this country’s largest industrial labor union [United Steel Workers] teamed up with the world’s largest...
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Unions and Environmentalists: Get It Together! | The Nation
For over three decades Big Business has worked hard to keep environmentalists and unions at odds with one another and that have succeeded to an unsettling degree. This antagonism must stop. Unions and...
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Rich Yeselson: Not With A Bang, But A Whimper: The Long, Slow Death Spiral Of...
…the cord connecting union organizing and activism to broad currents of the American public has been frayed nearly to the breaking point. Unions always had powerful enemies, but they also had a broad...
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‘When We Go Out, the Lights Go Out': Workers Locked Out at Con Ed | The Nation
Hundreds of union members have descended on New York power utility Consolidated Edison’s corporate headquarters in Manhattan following the company’s decision to lock out 8,500 of its unionized workers...
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