New Labor Forum
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Challenging Racism at Work
This post was originally published in the Spring 2015 issue of New Labor Forum. By Sarah Jaffe Cameron McLay became chief of police in Pittsburgh in September 2014, tasked by new mayor Bill Peduto with cleaning up the department, after its former chief wound up in federal prison for corruption. This put him in charge at…
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Green Capitalism Won’t Work
This article was originally published in the Spring 2015 issue of New Labor Forum. By Sean Sweeney For the last twenty years, unions in the United States and internationally have generally accepted the dominant discourse on climate policy, one that is grounded in assumptions that private markets will lead the “green transition,” reduce emissions, and…
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Labor, Accountability and Safety in the Global Era
By Karen Judd At Thursday’s breakfast forum, Decent Wages and Accountability to Workers in the Garment Global Supply Chain, former New York Times Labor Journalist Steven Greenhouse, whose coverage of the Rana Plaza disaster put global sweatshops again on the front page, said: “Overseas sweatshops are the logical result of globalization and the race to…
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Barbara Smith Event – Livestream
The Murphy Institute invites you to a forum cosponsored with 1199SEIU & Cornell University’s Worker Institute: The Barbara Smith Identity Politics event will be livestreamed on this page. The video will be below this line – starting Friday morning at 9.30am. Until then, please help us spread the about this important event! Identity Politics: A Foundation…
