Labor’s Depressing Data and the Contradictions Lying in Our Huge Potential

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New Orleans    Over the last week I found it hard and frustrating to come up with a coherent picture of the current predicament of the labor movement both here and yon. Talking to a long tenured colleague at the Change to Win federation in the USA, my brother remarked soberly that private sector union density …

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Informal Workers’ Unions Voices are Rising in Latin America and Elsewhere

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Mexico City   Some recognition of the role of unions emerging among informal workers is easier to be seen in Latin America. It was unsurprising to read that one of the clearest voices expressing concern about the impact of the devaluation of the peso in Argentina by the new government and its impact on inflation and …

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Noting ACORN Victories While Congress Still Delivers the Low Blows

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New Orleans   Fresh from a great meeting celebrating ACORN’s year in Canada, as we got into the cars to go catch up with the latest news of a community organizing project in Homestead, across the river from Pittsburgh, one of the ACORN organizers in Canada asked if I had seen the front page of the …

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