Posted on September 12, 2009 by adamfreedom
Over the Labor Day weekend Van Jones resigned his position as an special adviser on green jobs to the Obama administration amid a flurry of controversy around attacks by the usual suspects on the right raising a fit over his past associations with the left. Its hard to speculate whether it was his own [...]
Filed under: current events | Tagged: AFL-CIO, Carl Davidson, Eva Paterson, Gompers, Green Jobs, Obama, right wing, Rosa Clemente, STORM, The Green Colllar Economy, Van Jones | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 29, 2009 by adamfreedom
This is an amazing review which captures what many folks that I know have been saying since the early 2000’s. The writer, long time labor activist Steve Early, contrasts the perspectives between two recent authors and their analysis of the labor movement in LA Stories: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement by UCLA professor [...]
Filed under: Article Repost, Labor, Uncategorized | Tagged: AFL-CIO, change from above, Change to Win, HERE-UNITE, kim moody, Labor movement, labor unions, revival from below, ruth milkman, SEIU, steve early, US labor | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 2, 2009 by adamfreedom
UPDATED and EXPANDED May 6, 2009. Below is a rough outline of the US labor movement that I created as part of a presentation. I’m attempting to periodize by decade, important organizations and broad trends. A particular focus I attempt to also give is looking at the changing relationship of the left within the labor movement. -AW
Outline of US [...]
Filed under: Labor, Left Organizations, The Movement, the left | Tagged: AFL, AFL-CIO, Andy Stern, Change to Win, CIO, IWW, John Sweeny, Knights of Labor, Labor, labor history, unions | 2 Comments »
