Enactment of right-to-work (for less) legislation in Michigan was not only a momentous blow to that state’s trade unionists but also to the entire organized labor movement and the working class. By way of response, it should certainly be an occasion for galvanizing labor’s troops, allies and supporters in demonstrating an intention to mount an [...]
Archive by Author
What Went Wrong In Wisconsin and Where Does Labor Go From Here?
Emergency Labor Network
Emergency Labor Network When Wisconsin workers occupied the Capitol and took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands in February and March, 2011 to defend their unions and living standards, the effect was electrifying. Workers throughout the U.S. and the world were elated to see American workers taking such militant actions, reminiscent of the [...]
Prevent Voter Disenfranchisement!
Emergency Labor Network
Third in a Series on Key Issues in 2012 Since the right to vote is the cornerstone of a democratic society, the widespread assault on the exercise of that right is a reason for more than concern ‑ it is a reason for alarm. We are greatly heartened by the many groups that have spoken [...]
Whose Security Is Iran Threatening?
Emergency Labor Network
Emergency Labor Network No War, No Sanctions, No Bombing Iran! Second in a Series on Key Issues in 2012 Iran poses no threat to the U.S. It has initiated no aggressive measures against the U.S. It has not sent its navy into the Gulf of Mexico in order to flaunt its power. It has not [...]
ELN Statement in Support of Occupy Wall Street
Emergency Labor Network
Emergency Labor Network We in the Emergency Labor Network salute the Occupy Wall Street movement in its demand for social justice. During the past several decades we have witnessed an historic growing inequality where wealth has been diverted from working people and channeled into the hands of bankers, corporate CEOs and the rich. Government policies [...]
Mass Demonstrations Needed for Real Jobs Program
Emergency Labor Network
When governments fall deaf to social reality, it’s up to working people to get loud.
Please Join Us in Building the Kent State Conference!
Emergency Labor Network
Dear Sisters and Brothers: Below is an invitation to an important upcoming labor-community conference at Kent State University, Ohio, on June 24-26. It is aimed at union activists and community allies who want to organize a fight-back in response to the unprecedented corporate attacks on working people. We want to especially encourage you to attend. [...]
Building Unity To Defeat Union-Busting And Concessions: Report On Emergency Labor Meeting
Emergency Labor Network
Ninety-six union leaders and activists from 26 states and from a broad cross-section of the labor movement gathered at the Laborers Local 310 Hall in Cleveland on March 4-5, 2011, in response to an invitation sent out in January urging them to “explore together what we can do to mount a more militant and robust [...]
Perspectives Approved by the Emergency Labor Meeting
Emergency Labor Network
Cleveland, Ohio As they are doing throughout most countries, the corporate class is using the financial crisis orchestrated by them to launch unprecedented attacks on the job security, living standards, working conditions and useful public services once enjoyed by the working class in the United States. This cold-blooded offensive threatens the very existence of our [...]
Articles of Interest
Richard Trumka: The 'grand bargain' is a dead end
On the Impotence of the Progressive Movement
Inside the Latest Jobs Report: Delusions of Economic Recovery by Paul Craig Roberts
Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced
Cutting Social Security–More than a Bad Idea
The Forgotten Radical History of the March on Washington- Hong Kong Dockworkers Strike Attracts Huge Solidarity
Understanding the Venezuelan Presidential Election Outcome
Is Venezuela on the brink of civil war?
