https://znetwork.org/author/arcckkkagan/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:23:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/arcckkkagan/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mayor-mamdani-can-empower-new-yorks-municipal-workers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mayor-mamdani-can-empower-new-yorks-municipal-workers/#respond Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293711 What does it augur to have a socialist mayor of New York City? The basic tenets of Zohran Mamdani’s election platform are, of course, directed at reducing inequality in the most unequal city in the nation: free childcare and buses, frozen rents, and more subsidized housing are all steps in that direction. But sabotage from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mayor-mamdani-can-empower-new-yorks-municipal-workers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-anti-trump-movement-is-growing-where-is-labor/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-anti-trump-movement-is-growing-where-is-labor/#respond Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290295 As tens of thousands of New Yorkers streamed down Seventh Ave from Times Square toward their dispersal point at Fourteenth Street for the city’s “No Kings” protest on Saturday, October 18, a separate march of perhaps five thousand waited uncertainly a long avenue block away. At its front, march leaders led a chant of “Whose [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-anti-trump-movement-is-growing-where-is-labor/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-trumps-decertification-of-federal-employee-unions-means/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-trumps-decertification-of-federal-employee-unions-means/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:11:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287435 Last week, pursuant to President Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order, the federal government unilaterally voided the collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) covering almost 400,000 Veterans Administration (VA) employees. Since then, it has also voided contracts covering tens of thousands more at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Citizenship and Immigration Services. These moves [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-trumps-decertification-of-federal-employee-unions-means/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/learning-from-the-1970-postal-workers-strike/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/learning-from-the-1970-postal-workers-strike/#respond Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:52:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283063 Unless they are able to act successfully to protect themselves and their rights, 2.4 million federal workers face a grim future. Alongside the prospect of hundreds of thousands of layoffs, Donald Trump has moved to strip nearly half of the remaining workforce of its collective bargaining rights and contractual protections. Those contracts provide standards, among other things, for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/learning-from-the-1970-postal-workers-strike/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unions-need-to-mount-a-militant-response-to-trumps-assault/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unions-need-to-mount-a-militant-response-to-trumps-assault/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282118 In its statement responding to Donald Trump’s deunionization of most federal workers — voiding existing collective bargaining agreements, canceling their right to negotiate new ones, and eliminating automatic deduction of dues from workers’ paychecks — the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades at first seems to pull no punches. “This may be the biggest attack [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unions-need-to-mount-a-militant-response-to-trumps-assault/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sanders-revolution-in-des-moines-iowa/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sanders-revolution-in-des-moines-iowa/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2020 08:59:21 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1028745 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-sanders-revolution-in-des-moines-iowa/feed/ 0