Troublemakers Blog
March 05, 2014 / Jane Slaughter
Since sexual harassment is about power, not sex, it’s not surprising that low-wage women in lousy jobs get a lot of it.
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March 03, 2014 /
The lockout of Pacific Northwest grain workers has hit a full year. They marked the grim anniversary with an early-morning direct action.
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March 01, 2014 /
Resumenes de artículos de Labor Notes de los EEUU, semana de 24 febrero, en español e inglés. Summaries of Labor Notes stories from the U.S. for the week of February 24, in Spanish and English. Please pass them on to your Spanish-speaking friends.
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February 28, 2014 /
Bus drivers in northern Vermont are set to walk out March 10. The local solidarity they’ve mustered could serve as an example for transit workers battling similarly extreme conditions around the country.
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February 22, 2014 /
Resumenes de artículos de Labor Notes de los EEUU, semana de 17 febrero, 2014, en español e inglés. Summaries of Labor Notes stories from the U.S. for the week of February 17, 2014, in Spanish and English. Please pass them on to your Spanish-speaking friends.
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February 20, 2014 / Alexandra Bradbury
“If you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do: you got to talk to the workers in the shop with you,” begins a wonderful, funny talking blues that Seeger’s group, the Almanac Singers, wrote in 1941 to boost CIO organizing.
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February 19, 2014 /
Ten have received prison sentences for the death of a police officer during a strike—though the case against them relied on torture and coerced testimony. The case eerily echoes Chicago's 1886 Haymarket Affair.
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February 18, 2014 /
Kellogg's touts its "diversity and inclusion" while locking out Black Memphis workers.
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February 15, 2014 /
Resumenes de artículos de Labor Notes de los EEUU, semana de 10 febrero 2014, en español e inglés. Summaries of Labor Notes stories from the U.S. for the week of February 10, in Spanish and English. Please pass them on to your Spanish-speaking friends.
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February 14, 2014 /
Canada would become the first country on Earth to lose door-to-door postal service. Instead, the corporation should be looking at ways to expand—such as reviving postal banking.
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