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How Will Farmworkers Fare Under New EPA Leadership?
While labor assesses the dangers and opportunities presented by the Trump administration, a sometimes-overlooked threat to farmworkers’ safety looms: potential cuts to environmental regulation. As James Trimarco and J. Gabriel Ware write in YES! Magazine: “[New EPA head Scott] Pruitt’s positions on climate change have been widely reported. Less well-known are the threats that his approach
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Feb. 21st, 2017
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. One of the major accomplishments of Democrats and financial reformers during the Obama Administration was the creation of the Consumer
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“Salting” Built the Labor Movement—It Can Help Rebuild It, Too
This post was originally featured at Jacobin. By Erik Forman The Left has a long tradition of asking ourselves, “What is to be done?” Ever since Lenin posed this rhetorical question, it has served as the hook for an ever-expanding genre of think pieces and calls to action on every imaginable social-movement dilemma. “What is
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Black Communities Leading the Movement for Economic Democracy
By Rebecca Lurie Black History Month is here — and we must declare Black Lives Matter well beyond any one month. Dr. Phil Thompson shares some important facts and insights in a recent article in the New Labor Forum, “The Future of Urban Populism: Will Cities Turn the Political Tide?“ He clearly lays out that the
