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A Bright Light in Dark Times: CTU struggle explored in Labor

State University of New York employees are reeling from the union contract negotiated between the faculty union (the United University Professions) and the.

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Lisha Arino, “Lakeshore Museum Center traveling exhibit to focus on Mexican migrant worker program”

The Lakeshore Museum will host a traveling exhibit that focuses on the largest Mexican guest-worker program in U.S. history. Visitors can learn about.

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LAWCHA

Race, Class, Labor, and the (Not So) Incognito Controversy

I’ve long appreciated how athletics mirror and shape broader social relations (Consider, for instance, C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary, which famously approached cricket.

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Peter Rachleff, “Struggle against racist sports nicknames gives labor movement opportunity to discover its own history – and find a path forward”

In early September the AFL-CIO held a dramatic convention in Los Angeles. With the labor movement’s segment of the U.S. workforce down to.

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“The Nature of Work”: 36th Annual North American Labor History Conference

October 16-18, 2014, Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) The Program Committee of the NALHC, an international conference with global perspectives, invites proposals for.

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LAWCHA

Let’s Call Tuesday a Victory for the Labor Movement As Well

Labor rights were not on the line during this off-year election cycle, at least in the traditional sense. But there were still some.

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Peter Cole, “An Irresistible Force”: Longshore unions and the fight for freedom and justice in Palestine

Before dawn one Sunday in June 2010, nearly 1,000 people converged on the Port of Oakland in northern California. Following a well-devised plan,.

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Letter of Support for Mexican Intellectual Edur Velasco Arregui

Please see the following call to action passed along to us by Richard Roman and LAWCHA member Manny Ness. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/

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LAWCHA

Jobs With Justice: 25 years of trying to transform Gompersism in the labor movement

These days, successful labor activity among the unorganized seems to depend, in ever greater degree, upon “faith based organizing,” union efforts interfacing with.

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LAWCHA

Bracero Guestworkers, Unpaid

This article was originally published in Jacobin. Every Tuesday, 76-year-old Miguel Díaz spends the better part of the day outside the House of.

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