Troublemakers Blog
December 06, 2013 /
Memphis fast food strikers spent the day going from one fast food restaurant to another, rallying outside and occasionally taking over the lobbies. Yells of “turn it up!” punctuated the chants of “we can’t survive on $7.25.”
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December 03, 2013 /
With all the right-wing trash talk about working men and women, it’s refreshing to pick up a book that documents the dangerous work of an overlooked group─sanitation workers.
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December 02, 2013 /
It took nine years of fierce struggle to form a local that would work for folk musicians and grant us the benefits the American Federation of Musicians can offer—such as a pension.
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November 27, 2013 /
In China, workers win more with wildcat strikes than through legal means. Now the government is trying to bring "order" to labor relations with new laws—and to outlaw strikes.
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November 26, 2013 /
In our school, we could have given our K-2 children the test, following yet another ridiculous Department of Education mandate. But I am so glad we did not.
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November 12, 2013 /
Fast food workers ask whether the national Fight for 15 campaign is worker organizing or a “march on the media.”
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November 05, 2013 /
Meet the people who caused the Great Recession and those who continue to suffer from it, all of them infinitely human in the hands of Barbara Garson.
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November 04, 2013 / Jenny Brown
Sheryl Sandberg urges women to lean in at work, but Newark teachers felt more "leaned on" when Facebook officers came to town with $100 million to push merit pay.
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November 01, 2013 /
Contingent faculty, now the majority, are almost always paid on a discounted secondary pay scale. But a college in British Columbia shows another way is possible.
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October 29, 2013 /
The two big commemorations of the 1963 March on Washington this August just asked us to honor a well-attended march where great speeches were given. The march represented much more, which has been written out of history.
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