Traveling to both Venezuela and South Africa this past summer, through my work as an academic sociologist, I was able to observe…
In April 2002, following a general strike led by oil company management and collaborating labor union leaders in Venezuela, parts of the…
Returning to the United States from Venezuela is a strange experience. Spending time with poor people hopeful about their future and the…
On March 6th, over 50 union members from several unions and activist allies picketed the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, DC.…
Standing in the middle of a blizzard in Chicago on December 8, 2005 along with about 250-300 union members and supporters, I…
On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney pointed out that, “For all practical purposes, Americans have lost the…
This past September, I wanted to write something about the juxtaposition of the extremely successful mobilization against the war in Iraq on…
Whoopee! The Change to Win Coalition has established itself in the labor movement! Happy Days are here again! Andy Stern’s going to…
As one considers developments in and around the main currents of the US labor movement — the recent split in the AFL-CIO,…
Tim Shorrock recently published an article titled ‘Labor’s Foreign Policy Heads in a New Direction.’ This piece seems to have gotten considerable…
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