Troublemakers Blog
March 28, 2014 / Julia Kann
Organized labor could learn a thing or two from the recent activism of young immigrants.
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March 27, 2014 /
Until now, disunity had dogged the postal unions. Management used the separate bargaining to push concessions onto them one by one, and the unions worked at cross purposes in their lobbying too.
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March 26, 2014 /
A threat to strike over grievances won victories for student workers at the University of California Santa Cruz on workload and two-tier.
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March 24, 2014 /
Browse the full schedule and get ready to learn, share, and recharge in Chicago April 4-6.
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March 20, 2014 /
Missing from the film is the spark of slave revolt that Solomon Northup portrayed so vividly in his book. He predicted "a terrible day of vengeance, when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.”
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March 19, 2014 /
In Chicago, worker center organizers and advocates for rape victims have come together to combat sexual violence in the workplace.
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March 15, 2014 /
Resumenes de artículos de Labor Notes de los EEUU, semana de 10 marzo, en español e inglés. Summaries of Labor Notes stories from the U.S. for the week of March 10, in Spanish and English. Please pass them on to your Spanish-speaking friends.
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March 14, 2014 / Samantha Winslow
Edward Albee's play "The Death of Bessie Smith" portrays a segregated hospital in 1937. Staged inside an empty Brooklyn hospital wing, it's drawing attention to the "medical apartheid" hospital workers say persists today.
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March 13, 2014 /
An inspiring new short film is a tool to introduce younger women to the labor movement.
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March 11, 2014 /
Oops! Evaluation scores used to determine which teachers are retained, rewarded, and even fired were miscalculated, D.C. teachers learned.
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