Dear Jeremy: This is a very significant victory for workers in the global economy, especially in the context of post-coup Honduras and the ongoing instability. The major US media have done an appallingly poor job of illuminating the situation in Honduras, much less coverage of the anti-sweatshop warriors' victory. This is consistent with the content of major media on Honduras for some time, where the brutality of sweatshops operated for US firms has been minimized and progressive activists painted in sinister tones, hiding a concealed motive of protectionism. Here'es an excerpt from a piece I wrote for Extra! in 1996: "In …
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Roger Bybee
Roger Bybee is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and progressive publicity consultant whose work has appeared in numerous national publications and websites, including Z magazine, Dollars & Sense, Yes!, The Progressive, Multinational Monitor, The American Prospect and Foreign Policy in Focus. Bybee edited The Racine Labor weekly newspaper for 14 years in his hometown of Racine, Wis., where his grandfathers and father were socialist and labor activists. His website can be found here.
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Chinese Labor Repression Undermines U.S. Recovery
By Roger Bybee "We cannot go back," President Barack Obama said in September, "to an era where the… more
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10 Years After: Labor Needs Spirit of Seattle Protests
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Despite Swine Flu Spread, Businesses Oppose Paid Sick Days
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Will ‘Notown’ Become Everytown?
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As Dems Dither on Crisis, Right Appeals to Racism
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Dems Need More ‘Problem Children’ Like Alan Grayson
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Dear Frank: Great to hear from you again! Where are you located? I couldn't agree with you more about your analysis of what's needed, although I grow more pessimistic about EFCA every day. You're right about 90% of the Democrats (excepting a few like John Conyers, Tammy Baldwin, Gwen Moore, Anthony Weiner, Dick Durbin, Barbara Lee, Russ Feingold, Xavier Becerra, etc.) refusing to side with workers on globalization, healthcare reform, or financial reform of Wall Street. But despite the extraordinarily well-publicized success of the bold takeover of Republic Doors and Windows, we're not seeing much direct action. In part, it's due …
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"Tools that breathe"--What a magnificent turn of phrase. I'm surprised that Marx did not come up with that to describe the alienation of labor. It is certainly heartening that even under the most repressive conditions in a global economy decisively tilted against working people, that workers in China--like those in Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico--never give up the fight for a a decent standard of living and their demand for control over their lives. At the same time, it is appalling that even Democratic administrations fail to press for universal, enforceable standards to protect workers.
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Elkhart also suffered the loss of a major drug manufacturing plant when American Homes relocated production to a low-wage,heavily-subsidized plant in Puerto Rico, as I recall, about 15 years back. . The workers' fitting slogan: "American Homes destroys American homes."
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Excellent story, reminding us how far we have slid both practically and metaphorically back toward "The Jungle." In Milwaukee and other Midwestern cities, we witnessed a wave of union-busting among meatpackers beginning in the mid-1970's, that triggered violent confrontations on the picket lines.. Amid high unemployment during the 1974-75 recession, meatpacking companies were able to recruit scabs on a scale not seen in decades. Within the next few years, the meatpacking industry seemed to increasingly shift to small towns in "right-to-work" states like Iowa and Nebraska where union formation is much easier to fight. I hope you will continue exploring this, …
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