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CWA 1180 Features SLU History
The Communique is the CWA Local 1180 quarterly newspaper. And in the latest issue, the story of the SLU transition from the Murphy Institute to the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies was featured over three pages. Written by Marci Rosenblum, the pieces starts with the school’s origin days, when it was all just
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Call for Participation: Our Economy! Economic Democracy and System Change (4/12)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 15TH, 2018 Can the economy be democratized? How can we transform it into a more socially inclusive and ecologically sustainable system? How can we combat the growing concentrations of power and wealth? What current practices point toward a participatory democratic and resilient next system? Our Economy! Economic Democracy and System Change is
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What’s the Deal with Tariffs?
When the president starts talking trade protectionism, it can be hard to know how to evaluate his rhetoric. SLU professor Stephanie Luce untangled some of the history and policy particulars of the thorny subject of tariffs for Organizing Upgrade: Donald Trump voiced the real concerns of many Americans when he spoke of the need to
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Video: Energy from Unlikely Sources
On Friday, October 12th, members of the wider SLU community gathered to ask big questions about the future of the labor movement. For more than a quarter century, workers and the U.S. labor movement have sustained significant setbacks, including the broad expansion of “right-to-work” conditions; the increasing use by employers of vehicles that enable them
