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Damayan Cleaning Cooperative: From Labor Trafficking to Worker Ownership
On the Laura Flanders Show this week, Damayan Cleaning Cooperative, the first Filipina migrant worker-cooperative in the United States had a chance to tell their story. Comprised primarily of survivors of labor trafficking, these cooperative members have created dignified, democratic livelihoods for themselves by starting a cleaning cooperative. This work connects to Damayan Migrant Workers Association‘s work
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Richard Wolff and Michael Johnson Discuss “Building Co-operative Power”
This post was originally featured at Grassroots Economic Organizing. Richard Wolff and Michael Johnson Discuss “Building Co-operative Power” | Grassroots Economic Organizing In this segment from the Economic Update weekly podcast, Prof. Richard D. Wolff interviews Michael Johnson, co-author of Building Co-operative Power. Michael shares stories from some of the cooperatives profiled in the book,
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Welcoming a New Class of Union Semester Students!
Welcome our spring 2016 NY Union Semester class! Andrew Brockwell Born and raised on Long Island, Andrew is a recently graduate of SUNY Old Westbury with a degree in Labor Relations. Ambitious and intelligent, he is joining the Union Semester program to gain insight and experience in working for a union and learn how, as
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Friedrichs Case, Unions and the Public Sector
By Penny Lewis The Friedrichs case argued before the Supreme Court yesterday will decide the near-term fate of public sector unions in the United States. In this and the next blog post I am mulling over the roots and implications of this case; in the next I want to consider what it means for us here
