Organizing
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Unions Backing Historic People’s Climate March
By Jeremy Brecher Delegates to Connecticut State Council of Machinists (CSCM) conference at the end of June voted unanimously to endorse and participate in the historic People’s Climate March set for Sunday, September 21, 2014 in Manhattan. This was just the most recent of a growing number of union endorsements for the March. New York
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Response to Nick Unger’s “Unions as Consciousness Builders – Part 2”
On July 3rd, we posted Part II of Nick Unger’s series on union structures, labor history and union member consciousness. As with the first installment, the responses have been rolling in. Here’s a sampling: From Martin Morand, Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Labor Relations, Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Nick is painfully correct — as far as
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What does the Harris v. Quinn decision mean for home care workers?
Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Harris v. Quinn last month, some have questioned the future of home care worker organizing. The ruling stated that unions cannot require home care workers who choose not to be represented by the union to pay fees. According to a recent article in Portside by Dave Jamieson, however, the
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Another go-round on Unions as Consciousness Builders – Part 2: Hello & Goodbye with Far too little In Between
By Nick Unger Why would one expect American unions to foster a broad insurgent culture? The legal framework, political and organizational for today’s unions goes back almost 80 years. It has always encouraged a culture of accommodation with the needs of production, output and efficiency and discouraged a broad insurgent culture of conflict, turmoil and
