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Online Event: Fighting COVID / Building Power: Workers & Unions on the Frontlines (5/19)
Tue. May 19 * 9:00am-10:15am Online Forum via ZOOM RSVP HERE Speakers include: Angeles Solis * Make the Road New York Director of Worker Organizing @AngeMariaSolis @maketheroadny Eric Loegel * TWU Local 100 Vice President, Rapid Transit Operations (RTO) @EricEddy100 @TWULocall100 Mark Henry * ATU Local 1056 President / Business Agent #ATULocal1056 #1u Nikki Kateman…
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The Unemployed Fight Back: An Interview with Frances Fox Piven
The post was originally featured at Organizing Upgrade. Reposted with permission. By Marc Kagan On April 23th, 2020, some 26.5 million Americans were unemployed, and the St. Louis Fed has estimated that 47 million people may be unemployed by the end of June, with unemployment reaching 32%. The Congressional Budget Office expects at least a 9% unemployment rate through 2021 and perhaps…
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Stephanie Luce: The Coronavirus Crisis Exposes How Fragile Capitalism Already Was
With various states moving to “re-open” the economy and bring things “back to normal,” it benefits us to look at what we might return to — and how the conditions we’ve come to accept as “normal” played such a significant role in getting us to the current crisis. In Labor Notes last month, SLU professor…
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New Labor Forum Highlights for May 2020
As the impact of the coronavirus continues to sweep across the country, the long-term failures of capitalism are in stark view. Yet socialism—as both a critique of capitalism and an alternative political and economic system—has until recently remained outside the narrow limits of U.S. electoral politics. Well before the anti-communist fervor of the Cold War,…
