Labor
BOOK REVIEW Studs Terkels Working soars to new life as graphic novel
June 9, 2009Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation Adapted by Harvey Pekar, edited by Paul Buhle NY/London: The New Press, 2009Studs Terkel was synonymous with the everyman, heart of the hoi polloi. In one of his last interviews...
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The fall of GM new thinking needed
June 9, 2009DETROIT — It was a little more than 30 years ago that General Motors had 395,000 United Auto Workers hourly employees. Two years from now, GM will have 38,000 union workers, a decline of over 90...
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Wal-Mart organizing efforts gaining momentum
June 8, 2009Reposted from http://www.ufcw.ca Wal-Mart organizing efforts are gaining momentum, in spite of the company’s concerted efforts to thwart union activity. In the United States — where the campaign is led by UFCW International — the growing...
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Employee Free Choice key to redressing economic hits against people of color
June 7, 2009Original source: Nothing beats getting out of a think tank long enough to find out what’s really going on. Seth Freed Wessler, a researcher at the Applied Research Center, did just that, traveling to Michigan where...
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RI workers go to court, press lawmakers to protect rights
June 6, 2009PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Workers who were locked out of their jobs at a local factory in January have filed a federal lawsuit against their former employer and the private equity firm that shut the plant down.
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