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Tag Archives: American Labor Movement
Labor’s Defiant Lady: Remembering Mother Jones
On Labor Day 2015 we take a look back at the great Mother Jones, who spent most of her life as a union organizer working side-by-side with striking miners, steel workers, and children. It is through efforts of this great woman — and others — that a great American Middle Class was born. Things like the 8-hour work day, the 40-hour work week, and child labor laws didn’t “just happen.” It took literally, blood, sweat, and tears to win what now appears to be slipping away from us again in the 21st Century. Labor Day — a time to remember workers. Continue reading
Posted in Labor, Progressive Profiles, Social Justice, Unions
Tagged American Labor Movement, labor, Mother Jones, Unions
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They’re Back: Those Wonderful People In Wisconsin Who Will Not Give Up
Those incredible people in Wisconsin continue to inspire us and show us what democracy looks like. They were back to mark the anniversary of Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union legislation and to look forward to the recall election in June. Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Labor, Wisconsin Politics
Tagged American Labor Movement, Grassroots Democray, Scott Walker, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, We The People, Wisconsin demonstrations, Wisconsin recall elections
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March Profile: Eugene V. Debs
As we await a spring revival of the Occupy Movement, a look back at the life and times of Eugene V. Debs reminds us that the fight for the 99 percent has long been waged. Read our March Progressive Profile and ask yourself if his words from nearly 100 years ago don’t ring just as true in 2012. Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Labor, Progressive Profiles, Social Justice, Unions
Tagged American Labor Movement, Eugene Debs, Grassroots Democray, human rights, Occupy Movement, organized labor, Progressives, protests
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Playing Bigger Than You Are: No One Said It Was Going To Be Easy
Of the many lessons woven throughout Stewart Acuff’s book Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing (Levins Publishing, Minneapolis) is the valuable perspective he shares about the day-in and day-out work that is the reality of union organizing. … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Labor, Social Justice, Unions
Tagged American Labor Movement, Grassroots Democray, Hope and Change, organized labor, Stewart Acuff
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More Good News For Vote No On Issue 2
We head into the final two weeks before the November 8 election in Ohio that focuses on the repeal of the anti-union, anti-worker, regressive Senate Bill 5 that was passed by the Ohio Republican legislature and signed by Gov. John … Continue reading
Posted in Campaign Finance Reform, Citizens United, Democracy, Labor
Tagged American Labor Movement, Grassroots Democray, organized labor, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, Vote No On Issue 2, We Are Ohio
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Labor Day 2011: Don’t Forget The Past
Like many, I have spent some time reflecting on Labor Day and what it has meant to me and my family over the year and how the state of labor in this country has changed over the course of my … Continue reading
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Tagged American Labor Movement, Eugene Debs, organized labor, working class
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