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AEA (Actors’ Equity Association) Seeks National Director of Communications (NYC)
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) is the national labor union representing over 50,000 Actors and Stage Managers working in the professional theatre. The goal of AEA is to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advance the careers of its members by negotiating wages, working conditions and a wide range…
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United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1500 Seeks Union Organizer (NYC)
UFCW Local 1500 is seeking a Union Organizer to identify, recruit, and develop workers in the workplace and greater community. Candidates should have experience in labor, political, or community activism/organizing, and be able to build one-on-one relationships with workers. Candidates should also have a commitment to social justice and workers’ rights. To apply, please email…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Oct. 17th, 2016
NLF Editorial Board Member Adolph Reed starts this issue of Highlights with a pushback. While the increased attention to police brutality and the injustice of our criminal justice system is essential, Reed argues that the one-dimensional focus on race obscures an understanding of the “ immensely fortified and self-reproducing institutional and industrial structure” of the carceral…
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Cooperative Business and the State of Higher Education
Cooperative business models are increasingly recognized as an essential element for transforming our economy. But where can you go to learn about them? In a recent article in the Chronicle Review (Curricular Cop-out on Coops), Nathan Schneider offers a somewhat dispiriting picture of the higher education landscape for cooperative economics. He writes: Education has been a basic…
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