UT-Austin Ponders Privatizing Staff
This article was originally published on The Rag Blog. Members of the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition gather at the UT-Austin Tower Wednesday, February 6, to protest the University’s consideration of...
View ArticleGetting the Picture: Corporate Crime Scene in West, Texas
Late update: In a new series of articles, the Austin Statesman is revealing how federal and Texas state officials are attempting to hide and cover up what happened in West and who is responsible. The...
View ArticleThe South: Labor’s Elephant in the Room
This article is reposted from the blog It’s About Power, Stupid! Memphis sanitation workers strike, 1968 The combination of anti-worker laws, repression against people of color and reactionary...
View Article“Right to Work” : A Body Blow, Not a Death Blow
This article was originally posted on the blog It’s About Power, Stupid! in December 2012. Although some details are now out of date, the heart of this post is still extremely timely as battles...
View Article“Enough is enough!” Bay Area workers go on strike
Striking city workers rally at Oakland City Hall. Photo by Mollie Costello. On July 1, the labor movement in the San Francisco Bay Area made its voice heard. SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Middle Class: Who are the Working Class?
As class war becomes more and more apparent in 21st century America, here’s a real look and analysis of class, and how it manifests. The article below was an attempt to make discussion points to come...
View ArticleBridging the Chasm between Environmental and Economic Justice: A Conversation...
CEJA Stands Together for Healthy Hoods Steelworkers President Leo Gerard said about the choice between a clean environment and good jobs, “You can have both, or you have neither.”A rift exists between...
View ArticleFast Food Workers: Giving Juice to a Revived Living Wage Movement
On the morning of December 5th, 15 fast food workers and 30 supporters gathered outside the McDonald’s on Highland in Memphis, Tennessee. After some picket-line discussion of tactics and their risks,...
View ArticleA Note to Socialist Union Staffers: Build Working Class Power!
Many of our friends and members hold staff positions in unions. In some cases, comrades who were rank and file union members lost their jobs due to plant closures and layoffs and migrated into staff...
View ArticleWhat Goes Around Comes Around
When I was asked to write on the history of May Day, I took a big gulp. Having never been taught about May Day in either school or college, I had to do some reading. Oh, I knew the basic one sentence,...
View ArticleIs My Union Gomperist?
(This piece was published in 2009) The American Federation of Labor (AFL) leader for most of the early 20th century was Samuel Gompers, an English immigrant cigarmaker. His strategy and method of...
View ArticleA Note to Socialist Union Staffers: Build Working Class Power!
The crowd cheers as President Barack Obama addresses the Milwaukee Laborfest at Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisc., Sept. 6, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Many of...
View ArticleGet a Rank & File Job! A Note to Young Activists
The student movement has been fertile ground for the left. Time away from the daily grind of work, exposure to a wide variety of ideas and experiences changed many people’s lives. Thirty years ago...
View ArticleWorking People’s Assemblies: Social Justice Unionism for the 21st Century
In this pamphlet, we focus on the challenge and promise of Social Justice Unionism in this century, and in particular the opportunity to overcome the historic failure of the U.S. trade union movement...
View ArticleDefending the Public Sector
This pamphlet on Defending the Public Sector explores the importance of building social justice unionism. It provides an intersectional look at organizing around race and class within the union...
View ArticleThe Earthquake of the Los Angeles Teachers Strike by Bill Gallegos
The rain deluge began in Los Angeles on January 14th, and poured onto the LA region for four days straight. But the real storm was the strike of 33,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)...
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