This is Why Organizing at Stop Signs is Genius
When done well, these types of campaigns can go deep and build the muscle memory and confidence communities need to win bigger goals.
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New Jersey Unions Distribute 2,000 Food Kits to Unemployed Workers During Heavy Rain
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Driving rain and thunder couldn’t stop New Jersey’s working people from helping out Atlantic City …
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Laborers Step Up to Provide Food Relief to Other Union Members
Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of those stories every day. Here’s today’s story. Members of Laborers (LIUNA) Local 773 delivered fresh produce and dairy products to their union …
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A Tale of Two Teamsters: Building a Community-Minded Union in Mid-Century St. Louis
Long before the birth of Teamsters for a Democratic Union in the mid-1970s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was hostile terrain for creating model local unions. In the 1930s, warehouse workers and drivers in Minneapolis revitalized Teamsters Local 574, under the leadership of Farrell Dobbs and other labor radicals. They organized widespread community support …
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Why California Is a Pro-Union State (Sort Of)
Ask Los Angeles Times reporter Alana Semuels why union membership in California rose by 100,000 in 2012, and she’ll give you a simple answer: “Latino workers.” To explain the contrast between the trend in California and the United States as a whole—where union membership dropped last year by 400,000—Semuels turned to some credible sources, including Steve Smith of the …
Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmworker Families
No matter how good your next meal tastes, it’s likely it made society ill. A new analysis by the Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN) draws a disturbing connection between pesticides in our food system and serious health problems among women and children. The report reviews empirical research linking agricultural chemicals to birth defects, neurological disorders, childhood cancers and reproductive problems. …
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Louisiana Worshippers Offer Prayers for Avondale Workers
When a member of a congregation falls on hard times, it’s not unusual for church members to offer up their prayers. But it is unusual for 120 congregations spanning denominations to send prayers for recovery to a shipyard and the 5,000 people its closure is putting out of work. That’s what happened this past weekend …
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Tech’s New Frontier
Flash mob. I was faintly aware of the concept. Mostly it had to do with pillow fights and Michael Jackson tributes. Then on Saturday I stumbled upon one. It left me remarkably hopefully. Really. And there is even a business point here, but first more on the mob. My daughter Frankie and I were walking …
