Troublemakers Blog
December 03, 2013 /
With all the right-wing trash talk about working men and women, it’s refreshing to pick up a book that documents the dangerous work of an overlooked group─sanitation workers.
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December 02, 2013 /
It took nine years of fierce struggle to form a local that would work for folk musicians and grant us the benefits the American Federation of Musicians can offer—such as a pension.
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November 27, 2013 /
In China, workers win more with wildcat strikes than through legal means. Now the government is trying to bring "order" to labor relations with new laws—and to outlaw strikes.
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November 26, 2013 /
In our school, we could have given our K-2 children the test, following yet another ridiculous Department of Education mandate. But I am so glad we did not.
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November 12, 2013 /
Fast food workers ask whether the national Fight for 15 campaign is worker organizing or a “march on the media.”
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November 05, 2013 /
Meet the people who caused the Great Recession and those who continue to suffer from it, all of them infinitely human in the hands of Barbara Garson.
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November 04, 2013 / Jenny Brown
Sheryl Sandberg urges women to lean in at work, but Newark teachers felt more "leaned on" when Facebook officers came to town with $100 million to push merit pay.
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November 01, 2013 /
Contingent faculty, now the majority, are almost always paid on a discounted secondary pay scale. But a college in British Columbia shows another way is possible.
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October 29, 2013 /
The two big commemorations of the 1963 March on Washington this August just asked us to honor a well-attended march where great speeches were given. The march represented much more, which has been written out of history.
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October 22, 2013 /
Though the AFL-CIO Convention’s focus on new alliances was healthy, the Convention was unwilling to grapple with fundamentals that are crucial to its long-term viability.
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