Subjects Archives: Labor

The 30th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention wrapped up in Minneapolis on June 10. One resolution in particular hints at a shift in its staunchly pro-imperialist record.

Burkina Faso on July 9 has inaugurated its first state-owned gold mine, marking a major milestone in the government’s strategy to expand public control over the country’s natural resources and strengthen its economic sovereignty.

Abigail Spanberger follows the model of the CIA throughout the developing world.

What is true of the world economy as a whole holds true for countries like India which have enormous labour reserves inherited from the colonial times, reserves hidden away in particular in vast agrarian sectors.

Unifor Local 252 in Mississauga announced that about 800 workers now have a collective agreement.

The first blow landed before Trump had been in office a week.

The day before International Workers’ Day, a court in China sent a clear message to employers: artificial intelligence is not a license to throw workers away.

The question is not whether AI will enter the workplace. It already has.

An attempt at understanding.

The terrorism charge is a weapon to break the strike.

In previous writings, we advanced an inventive new model for municipal finance: what we call the Seattle Loop. By establishing a city-owned public bank, we propose, Seattle can not only expand public investment through municipal lending and provide residents with low-cost financial services; it can also purchase its own bonds and “loop” the interest back to the […]

In my 25 years as a union organizer and labor educator, my core purpose has been to help working-class people recognize and act on their own power.

A palpable, but indecisive enthusiasm permeated a recent Seattle arts forum, revealing a city desperate for a future that no one quite knows how to build, let alone finance. Despite the proliferation of sticky notes with compelling schemes, as Amanda Manitach describes in The Stranger, the arts roundtable lacked a cohesive strategy for gathering its aspirational potpourri […]

Trump’s proposed rule change doubles down on an already broken and polluting food system.

China just forced companies to admit what the rest of the world keeps pretending not to see.

The Democratic Party insiders who dominate the Federation and many of its unions–the same forces who quickly condemned Kelber’s age as the primary reason to ignore and even attack him–will all compete energetically to prove their politically correct credentials and strict loyalty to identity politics.

No equivalent legal protection exists in the United States.

Along the northern shore of the Great Lakes, across the water from Rochester, Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, the Canadian manufacturing industry has long been part of the greater industrial archipelago of metal-bending communities—out of which American brand-name equipment, toolmakers, and vehicle companies grew in the early decades of the twentieth century.

CounterSpin interview with Sarah Anderson on poverty wages.

Current AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, always eager to share the news that “public opinion polls show that big majorities of working people in the U.S. support unions…”