Category: Repression
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The labor-busting law firms and consultants that keep Google, Amazon and other workplaces union-free
John Logan, San Francisco State University American companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the reasons unionization in the private sector is at a record low. What you may not realize is that a handful of little-known law and consulting firms do much of…
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Where do trade unions go from here?
In South Africa, the seismic shifts in unionism triggered by the Marikana Massacre have sadly not resulted in a union movement better equipped to tackle the issues that workers face. By Naadira Munshi Originally published by Africa is a Country This post is part of a series that accompanies the symposium “Marikana, 10 years on,”…
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What does it have to do with Marikana?
By Benjamin Fogel and Claire-Anne Lester Originally published in Africa is a Country The Marikana Massacre changed democratic South Africa forever. It can also catalyze resistance to the current order. If one were to pick a moment when the narrative of post-apartheid South Africa as a nation, for all its faults, generally stumbling forward in the…
