workers rights – Page 112

Foxconn and socialism in China

March 14, 2012 By John Case

How can there be such abuses, and class conflicts, under socialism? Doesn't socialism promise and end to class conflict, and create a classless society?

RWDSU launches campaign for NYC car wash workers after devastating report

March 12, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

RWDSU is launching a campaign to bring workers' rights - including the right to organize - to some 5,000 car wash workers in New York City.

Michigan working families: Protect collective bargaining

March 9, 2012 By John Rummel

The initiative is a bold proposal to add an amendment to the Michigan constitution guaranteeing the right of every worker to collectively bargain.

Occupy’s 89%? Where anarchism shuns unionists, it allies with the ultra-right

March 7, 2012 By Greg Rose

Anarchist collectives in the Occupy movement in Oakland and the Pacific Northwest have put forward a new slogan, "We are the 89%." This threatens to destroy any alliance between the Occupy movement and organized labor.

Office Depot, Macy’s, Publix slammed on wage-theft stance

March 7, 2012 By Ben Markeson

Community activists, clergy and labor came together in defense of a simple concept - the right of workers to be paid for the work they do.