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Written by the FRSO/OSCL Labor Commission
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Tuesday, 14 March 2006 |
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In early September 2005 labor activists in Freedom Road Socialist Organization / Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad (FRSO/OSCL) met for a weekend. The primary purpose of this meeting was to evaluate the momentous changes organized labor had recently faced and to identify some key challenges and opportunities for leftists working within the trade unions and other labor formations (e.g. Jobs with Justice, workers centers, etc.). A preliminary report on these conversations was distributed in late October. We wanted to share our thoughts on this rapidly changing situation with friends and allies as soon as possible; and for that reason some of the ideas presented in the preliminary report were not developed as thoroughly as we might have liked. In what follows the FRSO/OSCL Labor Commission has attempted to further develop these areas of our analysis and respond to criticism and comments we have received. As always, your further comments and criticisms are welcome as we all grapple with the key challenges facing our work within the trade unions and more broadly among the class. |
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Written by Chip Smith
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Sunday, 01 September 2002 |
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During the summer of 1989 a small group of housekeepers met at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill. Today that core has grown to become a statewide union—the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union—with several thousand members. Their union, United Electrical Workers Local 150, is on the cutting edge of organizing the South, here in a right-to-work state with the smallest percentage of unionized workers, at 3%, of any state in the union. |
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Written by Chad Negendank
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Sunday, 01 September 2002 |
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"I wanted to go into denial about losing my job, but the union helped make it obvious what was happening,” says Joel Burnette, University of Tennessee van driver for the last four years. Van service at UT’s flagship Knoxville campus was in the process of being contracted out behind the scenes, and Joel felt he had a duty to alert the other drivers that they were being lied to by their bosses. “The union gave me the courage and ability to tell my co-workers that we were about to lose our jobs and that we had to act.” |
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Written by Saladin Muhammad
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Monday, 01 January 2001 |
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An article celebrating Black Workers for Justice's twentieth anniversary originally published in the Spring 2001 issue of Freedom Road Magazine. |
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