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New Labor Forum Highlights: April 17th, 2018
The New Labor Forum has 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. This newsletter appears one week in advance of the fifth anniversary of Rana Plaza garment factory collapse, the worst disaster in…
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The Center for Frontline Retail (CFR) Seeks Executive Director (NYC)
The Center for Frontline Retail (CFR) promotes awareness, leadership, and action to achieve quality employment in the retail sector. Through civic engagement, essential services, and industry research, Frontline grows grassroots capacity to transform retail work. Using a services-to-organizing model, Frontline offers services that address worker’s immediate needs and empower them for industry advancement. Through these…
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New Labor Forum
New Labor Forum is a national labor journal from the Murphy Institute and the City University of New York. Published three times a year, New Labor Forum provides a place for labor and its allies to test and debate new ideas. Issues we explore include (but are not limited to): the global economy’s impact on work and labor; new union organizing…
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Union Semester
New York Union Semester is one of a kind full-time semester-long program that combines rigorous academic study with first-hand experience within the labor movement. Students in the program are paired with unions and worker-rights organizations to gain practical skills and learn first-hand the strategies these organizations use to fight for workers’ rights. During class time,…
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