LABORThese are articles previously published by Toward Freedom related to this category.
As the inequalities in wealth continue to grow, some have argued that the decline in the labor movement is a strong contributing factor to this tendency.
Steelworkers in the United States and Canada forge ties with Los Mineros in Mexico.
Organized labor has the resources to pursue its own political agenda where it defends the interests of all working people in the face of this current historic corporate attack.
“What we witnessed in Egypt and Tunisia, and now in Libya, Syria and Yemen, is that the struggle for freedom is not limited to one nation,” explained Egyptian union leader Kamal Abbas.
From sweatshops to corporations funding paramilitaries, the businesses that supply the US market often violate human rights and law across the globe. At the same time, workers and workers’ advocacy organizations are fighting back in new and creative ways.
The sheer number of people who marched around the Wisconsin state capitol building to protest Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cripple and kill public workers’ unions was dramatic.
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