Honoring: Mike Eng, Assembly Member California 49th District; Kamala Harris, Attorney General, State of California; Sid C. Stopler, Business Manager/Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Southern California Pip Trades District Council 16
It is critical to reexamine the position of labor in the global South, in the context of momentous changes underway in the global economic and political order. Consider some of those changes: Newly rising powers, such as Brazil, China, and South Africa, are assuming greater roles. Increasing numbers of voices are questioning neoliberal prescriptions and […]
Presented by Wilma Liebman, former Chair of the National Labor Relations Board From Wisconsin to Capitol Hill, we have witnessed an escalating battle over the very legitimacy of labor law and existence of collective bargaining rights. The political and economic environment in which this conflict is occurring has ratcheted up the attacks and overheated the […]
Corporate profits have never been higher, at a time when the real unemployment has soared. Have bosses learned how to get by without workers? Not really, but the evidence suggests a growing reliance on new kinds of free labor to boost the balance sheet of companies that are canny enough to harvest it. Free, or […]
