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Brandworkers Seeks Digital Community Manager (NYC)
Brandworkers has an opening in our Development Department for a full-time Digital Community Manager Brandworkers is the first and only non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to the factory workers behind the soaring local food industry. Brandworkers members are organizing an industry-wide base of local food production workers for dignified jobs; promoting fresh food made close to…
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Capstones: Labor Studies Students Share Work, Reflections
Congratulations to our Fall 2015 Capstone students in the Labor Studies MA program! With the guidance of Professor Michael Murphy (connecting from Washington DC), our MA candidates engaged the audience in great conversations about their research topics. Richard Gorgoglione: “The WPA and the Transformation of Staten Island” This research project explores how the WPA contributed to…
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COP21: Dispatch #3 – A Bad Deal & A Call to Action
From Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, 12/11/15: The Paris climate summit (Cop 21) is nearly over, and the deal that’s presently on the table falls short in terms of commitments on emissions, financing, human rights, and just transition. The core concerns of unions and social movements remain in the preamble to the Paris Agreement and not…
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Center for Family Life Seeks Cooperative Developer
The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park promotes and supports the founding of cooperative businesses as part of our community development initiative. Our mission is to provide support and consultation services to worker-owner cooperatives based on principles of social justice, equality, and democracy. We focus on helping to develop cooperatives that focus on fair wages, safe…
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