labor breakfast forum
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Event: Solidarity Economies & Worker Coops (12/4)
December 4, 8:30 -10:30am The Murphy Institute 25 W. 43 Street, 18 Floor The local movement of worker cooperatives, supported by the City Council, has increasingly caught the imagination of workers and organizers. What is the potential and what are the limitations of worker co-ops in building a movement for economic and social justice? To what…
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Labor, Accountability and Safety in the Global Era
By Karen Judd At Thursday’s breakfast forum, Decent Wages and Accountability to Workers in the Garment Global Supply Chain, former New York Times Labor Journalist Steven Greenhouse, whose coverage of the Rana Plaza disaster put global sweatshops again on the front page, said: “Overseas sweatshops are the logical result of globalization and the race to…
