Kafui Attoh is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the Murphy Institute. The World Cup is upon us! All praise be to FIFA! In less than a week, millions of people worldwide will tune into what promises to be the largest global bread and circus event of the year. Indeed, an estimated half a million … Continue Reading ››
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Precarious Solidarity – Labor and The Environmental Movement
This post was written by Penny Lewis, an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at The Murphy Institute For the second time in two weeks the New York Times has devoted its lead news story to reports about our unfolding environmental cataclysm. Last week’s lead brought home the fact that climate change is happening now, covering reports … Continue Reading ››
The Significance of the TWU and UFT Labor Contracts
Written by James Parrott, the Chief Economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute For the first time in nearly five years, major labor agreements were recently reached covering public sector workers in New York City. On April 17, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 concluded a new 5-year contract dating from January 2012 covering 34,000 workers at … Continue Reading ››
Workers Unite! Film Festival 2014
NYC Celebrates Global Labor Solidarity
MAY 9TH TO MAY 19TH, 2014
The Workers Unite! Film Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and organize for … Continue Reading ›› Faculty of the World, Unite?
Penny Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at The Murphy Institute Years of organizing, agitating, occupying and strategizing have brought the issue of low wage and precarious work to the forefront of contemporary economic discussion. Fast food and retail are not the only sectors where such low wage work has become the norm: higher … Continue Reading ››