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“A Different Type of Union”: How National Nurses United is Changing the Face of the Labor Movement
Since its formal inception in 2009, National Nurses United has emerged as one of the lone upstarts in the otherwise-contracting organized labor landscape. Defending nurses in the face of hospital budget cuts, the nurses are also fighting for increased safety for themselves and their patients. In The Little Union That Could from The Atlantic, journalist Alana…
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Labor & the Climate Justice Movement at Murphy
On Friday, Oct 31st, the New Labor Forum hosted Bill McKibben, Jill Furillo, Chris Erikson, Estela Vazquez and Sean Sweeney to discuss labor and the climate justice movement. Check out some of the conversation here: [youtube:http://youtu.be/5JqxysFucU0?t=30s] Want more from the New Labor Forum? Come to one of our upcoming events. The next Labor and…
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Professors Join in Struggle Against Blick
Last week, professors joined workers, community members and students who have been waging an 8-month contract battle with Utrecht Art Supplies, a conglomerate of Blick Art Materials. The activists served management with a petition demanding that Utrecht move forward on a contract and supporting the workers’ right to unionize and earn fair pay. Murphy Prof. Stephanie…
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Organized Labor Hopes to Grow by Helping Immigrants Gain Citizenship
By Steve Brier One of the persistent tragedies in the history of the U.S. labor movement has been the repeated opposition of unions to organizing new immigrant workers into their ranks. Not only the old AFL, but even the more progressive and inclusive Knights of Labor, attacked new immigrants (the Chinese, in the case of…
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