Troublemakers Blog
June 17, 2011 /
In an eye-opening interview with Labor Notes about assaults on workers in Iran and their efforts to organize free trade unions, an organizer based in Tehran delves into the volatile situation for advocates of union democracy in a closed society.
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June 07, 2011 /
More than a thousand rallied in Madison yesterday to relight and escalate protests against Governor Scott Walker and the state’s continued attacks on Wisconsin workers.
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June 03, 2011 /
Retail cleaning workers and community allies ended a 12-day hunger strike against the Supervalu grocery chain Thursday. The workers, members of a Minneapolis worker center, called off the action when religious leaders and elected officials said they'd press management for a solution.
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June 02, 2011 /
A CWA business agent visiting family in Peru was surprised to find well-educated and well-paid doctors and teachers waking up early to rally on behalf of striking bus drivers. Why aren't Americans in the habit? Well, it starts with us. Bring a little Lima (or Wisconsin) to your hometown.
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May 27, 2011 /
Two hundred activists found some answers in the tactics, strategies, tools, and sources of inspiration shared at the Labor Notes Troublemakers School last week in Chicago.
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May 27, 2011 /
Three days after statewide protests and lobbying by California teachers, Governor Jerry Brown earmarked an additional $3 billion for education--a result of many months of massive protests and lobbying across the state.
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May 26, 2011 / Jane Slaughter
A Wisconsin judge ruled today that the infamous “budget repair” bill that would undermine public employee unions in the state was passed illegally. State senate Republicans pushed the bill through March 9 without advance public notice, she »
May 24, 2011 / Dan La Botz
Undocumented Latino immigrants in Switzerland are battling many of the same issues that immigrants face here, and they’re organizing to demand creative solutions to common problems.
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May 13, 2011 /
This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, a heroic effort to end racial segregation in the South. What lessons can today’s movements learn from the Freedom Riders' courage, daring tactics, and rejection of business as usual?
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May 11, 2011 /
“Excluded workers” called on the AFL-CIO to let them in—and got the beginnings of a welcome. At their conference in New York this week, 250 members and organizers from the nine sectors of the Excluded Workers Congress vowed to “expand the human right to organize and collectively bargain.”
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