Troublemakers Blog
May 08, 2014 /
University of California executives hoped this round of bargaining would extract deep concessions on benefits from 22,000 hospital and campus workers. And like many large university and health care employers, UC wanted to replace full-time work with contingent work by expanding the use of temps and private contractors. »
May 07, 2014 /
In May of last year I answered my phone, at work in Seattle, and found myself talking to a union organizer in Texas. »
May 02, 2014 / Samantha Winslow
Charter school teachers in Philadelphia are speaking out against their employer taking over another school while ignoring teachers at existing schools.
Instead of supporting management’s expansion plans, they’re making common cause with parents at the targeted school, Luis Muñoz-Marín Elementary. The teachers want to unionize in the charter teacher local of the »
May 01, 2014 / Samantha Winslow
On one side of town, tourists and young professionals head downtown on light rail: clean, air-conditioned, fast. If there’s a problem with service, the city diverts buses to help.
On the other side of town, workers wait at bus stops. The buses that carry them to work come less and less frequently, thanks to service cuts. Drivers struggle to get through their »
April 29, 2014 /
Plan A has left us with a deep well of anger. I am longing and raging for a different direction.
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April 24, 2014 /
Imagine every municipal worker in New York City—more than 300,000, in 152 unions—negotiating contracts simultaneously. It's happening now. But without synchronization.
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April 21, 2014 /
Audiences in Washington state and British Columbia can expect the unexpected, from Irish ballads to union sing-alongs to political punk anthems.
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April 15, 2014 /
When Labor Notes began in 1979, the founders didn't know what a rocky road lay ahead. What have we all learned over 35 years?
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April 14, 2014 /
Cesar Chavez in the new biopic is a flat, one-dimensional character who does everything unassisted. The organizers on whose shoulders he stood are ignored or reduced to bit players. But a documentary and a new biography do a better job of assessing this complex character.
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April 09, 2014 /
Need an inspiration fix? Here are a few video highlights for those who couldn't make it to the record-breaking 2014 Labor Notes Conference—or those already ready to relive it.
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