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It is a year now since all hell broke loose in Longview, Washington, an industrial town on the Columbia River, 45 miles…
Cal Winslow
Cal Winslow is a retired Fellow in Environmental History at the University of California, Berkeley and is Director of the Mendocino Institute. He was trained as an historian at Antioch College and Warwick University where he studied under the direction of the late Edward Thompson. He is a co-author of the re-released Albion's Fatal Tree (Verso 2011). In the 1970s he worked as a warehouseman, truck driver and journalist, a participant in and observer of the rank-and-file workers’ rebellion of the decade. He is an editor of Rebel Rank and File, Labor Militancy and Revolt from below During the Long 1970s (Verso, 2010). He taught labor studies at the Center for Worker Education, City College of New York and was a visiting Senior Lecturer at the Northern College for Residential Adult Working Class Education in South Yorkshire. His is author of many books, including E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left (Monthly Review 2014). His most recent is Radical Seattle, the General Strike of 1919 (Monthly Review, 2019). He lives with his family on the Mendocino Coast of Northern California. He and his wife, Faith Simon, a Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in pediatrics, are founding members of Mendocino Parents for Peace and are associated with the Bay Area gathering Retort.
California’s healthcare workers’ wars continue, in the streets, in collective bargaining and in the courts, at a level of conflict not often…
On December 5, 2011, Znet published my piece, “The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen’s Union.” The article both in its introduction…
Occupy Oakland has called for a “General Strike” on the West Coast docks – a significant escalation in the conflict in the…
The 1946 Oakland general strike began with a dispute at two downtown department stores, Hastings’ and Kahn’s, where 425 clerks (mostly women)…
CNA Joins NUHW in Biggest Healthcare Strike Ever Cal Winslow California healthcare workers have now taken their fight to another level –…
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just thrown out the results of the September/October 2010 representation election at Kaiser Permanente, the…
On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 2500 members of the new National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) struck Kaiser Permanente in Southern California;…
It is now nearly three years since 100 prominent university teachers, labor educators and activists appealed to then SEIU President Andy Stern…
2010: This has been the year of wild spending here in California – and yes, the tragic truth, money talks. Meg Whitman…