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The Struggle for Decent Work and Wages
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- Published on Sunday, 06 August 2017 00:15
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The Struggle for Decent Work and Wages
Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (in Ontario, Canada), has been referred to the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs. Over 10 days in July in 10 different cities, the Committee heard deputations on the Bill. In August, the Committee will review the Bill “clause-by-clause” to decide what, if any, amendments will be made to the legislation.
While supporters of the Fight for $15 and Fairness are calling for important amendments – such as eliminating the sub-minimum wage rates for students and liquor servers, strengthening the language for equal pay for equal work, improving the scheduling provisions, adding more paid leave days and simplifying the process by which workers join unions – the ruling class is not rolling over so quickly....
Tell leading retailers: Justice now for Cambodian garment workers
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- Published on Saturday, 05 August 2017 06:30
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Denim execs are getting nervous
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- Published on Saturday, 05 August 2017 06:15
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R&F.ca Weekly Update
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- Published on Saturday, 05 August 2017 05:15
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Healing the deepest traumas
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- Published on Friday, 04 August 2017 15:30
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Malaysia: Shangri-La workers win 13-year fight to restore collective bargaining rights
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- Published on Friday, 04 August 2017 08:00
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Reviving the Strike
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- Published on Thursday, 03 August 2017 22:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1462 .... August 4, 2017
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Reviving the Strike
Jane McAlevey
Barb Tiller is a mother of four boys, a wife, and a highly skilled operating-room nurse who has been working at Tufts Medical Center in Boston for 27 years. On July 12, for the first time in her life, she walked off the job along with 1,200 other nurses -- almost all women -- in the largest nurses’ strike in Massachusetts’s history, and the first in Boston for 31 years. "Nurses don’t stand up for ourselves," says Tiller. "We stand up for our patients; we stand up for our families when we go home. We stand up for everyone else. But we can’t work under these conditions anymore -- like being locked in the operating room with no water, no...
15,000 more signatures needed
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- Published on Thursday, 03 August 2017 10:15
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Day 12: Three years in solitary confinement
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- Published on Thursday, 03 August 2017 09:15
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News from the Ecosocialist Coalition
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- Published on Thursday, 03 August 2017 08:45
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Site C Finally Faces B.C. Utilities Commission
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- Published on Thursday, 03 August 2017 08:15
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He saved 66 chimps
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- Published on Friday, 18 August 2017 10:45
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New arrests as Haft Tapeh sugar workers in Iran keep up their fight
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- Published on Thursday, 03 August 2017 04:30
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The Duplicity of Law and the Cowardice of Capitalists
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- Published on Thursday, 03 August 2017 03:30
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1461 .... August 3, 2017
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The Duplicity of Law and the Cowardice of Capitalists
Harry Glasbeek
Capitalism is ugly.
The major villains at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, AIG, were not impelled by any desperate need they had to meet, or by their lack of education and opportunities, the circumstances that lead the poor to commit crimes. They were acting as self-seeking, greedy, venal individuals who do not care for anyone but themselves. They were acting as capitalism expects capitalists to act. Their manipulations of financial markets led to the evictions and impoverishment of millions and ravaged sovereign states. None of the most heinous miscreants have been prosecuted for their crimes. Spineless, supposedly Rule of Law- loving governments, hid behind the slogan that...
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Help Equip Cuban Workers' Unions!
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 August 2017 17:00
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Win for Narwals and Salmon
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 August 2017 10:30
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What matters most? We're listening.
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 August 2017 08:15
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The Summer of Fear for New York Subway Riders
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 August 2017 04:15
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1460 .... August 2, 2017
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The Summer of Fear for New York Subway Riders
Natalia Tylim
After months of increasing delays at all times of the day and night, a series of incidents have now raised an even more urgent question: about the daily safety for those who ride and work on New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
On July 17, the Monday morning commute ground to a halt for anyone in need of the A, B, C or D lines when a track fire trapped two trains full of people underground and disrupted service for tens of thousands trying to get to work.
Four days later, the derailment of a Q train at Brighton Beach -- the fourth derailment on an MTA subway this year --...
GE's Switch
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 August 2017 00:45
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1459 .... August 1, 2017
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GE’s Switch
Stephen Maher
The resignation of General Electric (GE) CEO Jeff Immelt last month is the latest sign of the broad restructuring of political and economic power currently underway in the United States. His departure, and John Flannery’s arrival, reveals a lot about the new phase of financialization that has emerged from the Great Financial Crisis.
As financial markets and institutions became a more important part of the economy in recent decades, so too did they take on a larger role within corporations themselves, even ostensibly nonfinancial enterprises. This fundamental reorganization of corporate power eroded the institutional foundations of the New Deal’s so-called corporate liberalism, contributed to growing state authoritarianism, and allowed for the deepening penetration of financial markets and logics into every...
CoDev E-Bulletin for July 2017
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- Published on Monday, 31 July 2017 16:45
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