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Twelve AT&T Park concession workers were arrested and another 50 were forcibly removed by police, during an act of civil disobedience on…
David Bacon
David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer who has focused on labor issues, particularly those related to immigrant labor. He has written several books and numerous articles on the subject and has held photographic exhibitions. He became interested in labor issues from an early age and he was involved in organizing efforts for the United Farm Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the Molders' Union and others.
On July 18, 2013, Kevyn Orr, the city emergency manager appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, declared Detroit bankrupt under Chapter 9…
On March 14, the day before the Trustees at San Francisco Community College District handed in the report that may decide the…
Many Iraqi oil workers thought the fall of Saddam Hussein would mean they would finally be free to organize unions, and that…
Just weeks after taking office, Mexico’s new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, ordered the arrest of the country’s most powerful union leader, Elba…
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For some immigrant rights organizations, President Obama’s principles for comprehensive immigration reform sound familiar. “The idea of the three-part tradeoff, that is,…
Leo Robinson was a leader of the longshore union in San Francisco. He died this week. For many of us, he was…
The day after Black Friday demonstrations of workers and supporters in front of hundreds of Walmart stores across the US, a fire…
In the lead-up to Black Friday, Walmart workers – supported by a number of unions – have organized a series of work…