Category: Labour
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Temporary Migration or Landed Status Now?
This is a photo from 1981. It’s a protest by migrant care workers. Their signs all read “Landed Status Now.” These calls – Landed Status Now, Status Now, or Status … Keep reading »
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UPS Risks Major Strike: Refuses to Prioritize Driver’s Safety
As UPS drivers around the country struggle to do their jobs in triple-digit temperatures – literally baking inside non-air-conditioned trucks – their wealthy employer refuses to take action. Keep reading »
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UK’s Transport Workers on Work, Dignity and Power of a Union
With the cost of living soaring and wages falling further behind, the union leader has become the face of resistance. He talks about the rail dispute, and the stereotyping of the working-class. Keep reading »
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Independent Unions Can Help Break Through the Economic Crisis and Labor’s Paralysis
At the dawn of the Great Depression, millions of workers were angry and didn’t see existing unions rising to the moment. They managed to build a fighting labor movement that transformed labor law and won the welfare state as we know it. Keep reading »
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Lean Production Is Not a Solution
Matt Vidal’s framing of lean production as a neutral technology that provides openings for worker empowerment and participation is mistaken. It is a production system that bolsters the cost-reduction capacities … Keep reading »
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Spontaneity Isn’t Enough for Real Change
The seemingly spontaneous upsurges at companies like Starbucks and Amazon are an inspiring sign of life within the workers’ movement. But spontaneity is nowhere near enough to turn labor’s dismal … Watch video »
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It’s Time for Salting to Make a Comeback: The New Terrain for Union Organizing
At Starbucks, Amazon, UPS, and many other workplaces, there are enormous opportunities for radicals to organize on shop floors. If you want to rebuild the labor movement, get a job and start organizing with your coworkers. Keep reading »
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The Growing Turmoil in Ontario Labour Relations: Can Ontario Unions Turn Things Around?
Only halfway through 2022 and we already are soon going to set a new high for strike days lost for at least the last 13 years in Ontario, with over … Keep reading »
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Registering the ‘Labour Upsurge’ in North America
After a long four-year hiatus, the Labor Notes Conference is back, and bigger than ever with a record-breaking 4,000 registering. With Amazon and Starbucks workers providing the lead at this … Keep reading »
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How the Left Builds Power All Wrong
Jane McAlevey has organized thousands of workers on the front lines of North America’s labor movement. She is also a senior policy fellow at UC Berkeley’s Labor Center and the … Keep reading »
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The First Principle of Union Organizing: Spontaneity Isn’t Enough
If today’s unionization rate in the US was the same as it was forty years ago (already a low bar, as that number is significantly down from the mid-1950s peak), … Keep reading »
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Labor’s Upsurge: How Unions Can Make the Most of This Moment
From Amazon and Starbucks to Google and Apple, we’re in the midst of a wave of union organizing that is challenging longstanding assumptions and redefining the boundaries of what’s possible. … Watch video »