In August, Toyota announced it would close the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, after General Motors…
Book by Harvey Schwartz; University of Washington Press, 2009, 347 pp. Today only 12 percent of workers belong to unions and less…
Last month, Toyota announced it would close the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, after General Motors announced…
At the Socialism 2009 conference in San Francisco, two of California‘s best-known radicals, Mike Davis and David Bacon, led a discussion about…
For anyone who loves the labor movement, it’s not unreasonable today to ask whether we’ve lost our way. California’s huge healthcare local…
Tosha Alberty (Center) being evicted from her home in Oakland, California. (Photo: David Bacon) Ā Ā Ā Ā Oakland – At eight in the morning on…
Is there a constitutional right to education? Legal scholar and civil rights advocate Erwin Chemerinsky says there is. "There has to be…
Sacramento, California – Is there a "constitutional right to education"? Legal scholar and civil rights advocate Erwin Chemerinsky says there is. "There…
Unions are good for workers. Today, median weekly pay for union members is $886, compared to $691 for nonunion workers. Moving…
In a little over a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city after city,…
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