New Orleans It almost seems quaint to remember that some decades ago, the rise of “contingent” workers was seen as a big deal and an emerging crisis for US workers. Countless studies, books, and ad hoc coalitions arrived to look at the problem. These were workers essentially on-call without full-time schedules or benefits …
Category: Unions
So Long Labor Peace and the FCMS
Pearl River One of the reasons that Trump’s “flood the zone” tactics are so effective is that keeping up with this surge of executive orders and chaos forces an inadvertent level of triage. We focus on the big bombers, while a lot of smaller and equally dangerous drones slip behind our lines. Take the …
Violent Resistance to Sugar Cane Union in Cameroon
Mumbai STRASCAS is the ACORN-affiliated union of sugar cane workers working in the plantations and processing facilities outside of Yaoundé in Cameroon. This isn’t an easy to story to follow, but it’s an important one that I’ve mentioned briefly before. Karina Bhatt, a reporter for the Caravel, a student paper at Georgetown University in …