Labor
EDITORIAL: Lessons from Circuit City
April 6, 2007Last week Circuit City announced layoffs of 3,400 “high paid” employees, saying it would replace them with lower-wage workers. It’s yet another example of the cruelty of a profit-driven, corporate-dominated system. Circuit City says it had...
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Laundry strike: Everybody goes out
April 6, 2007A front-page photograph in the Oct. 26, 1936, edition of the Daily News captured the defiant, young face of Jessie Taft as she stood chained to the balcony of a New York City hotel.
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Autoworkers confront globalization
March 23, 2007Autoworkers face one of their biggest challenges ever: how to fight in an era of globalization when companies threaten to move ever more production abroad to get the lowest wages and benefits possible. With contracts for...
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There are no rights without organization
March 23, 2007The Portland (Maine) Press Herald in a recent editorial claims that the “Employee Free Choice Act opens the door to coercion.” The act, recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, with the support of Maine’s...
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Guest workers fired after protesting slave conditions
March 23, 2007Hundreds of guest workers from India are protesting conditions in a Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard that immigrant rights activists compare to slavery. Many of the workers gathered in a church on March 11 in this Gulf Coast...
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