Tag: work
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Shoved From the Ivory Tower
By Heather Ringo and Julia Métraux for Disability Visibility Project, CC-BY-NC 4.0 Shoved From the Ivory Tower: Disabled Graduate Students Crushed Between the University of California & Their Union On November 29th, 2022, over 200 disabled union workers and allies gathered on Zoom to beg members of the UAW 2865 Bargaining Team (BT) not to…
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Methane leaks from oil and gas extraction must end, but industry is slow to act
Jim Krane, Rice University What’s the cheapest, quickest way to reduce climate change without roiling the economy? In the United States, it may be by reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. Methane is the main component of natural gas, and it can leak anywhere along the supply chain, from the wellhead and…
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California’s Public Scientists Union Battles Covid-19, Climate Crisis, and Austerity on Pay from Newsom Administration
By Steve Sander for massolidarity.org, CC BY-NC-NA 4.0 The California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) represents toxicologists, biologists, veterinarians, geologists, chemists, and other scientific practitioners and researchers who play pivotal roles in ensuring that the state’s residents have clean and sanitary food, water, air, and soil. Many state scientists are also leading the state’s response…
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“Quiet Quitting” is a new name for an old method of direct action
Jonathan Lord, University of Salford The average UK worker now carries out approximately 22 days’ worth of overtime a year. Meanwhile, inflation is at a 40-year high of 10.1%, and real pay is dropping 2.8% – the fastest decline since records began in 2001. Audio recording of article available from original source. You can listen…
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An ASUU member explains why Nigeria’s university lecturers won’t back down
Dele Ashiru, University of Lagos Lecturers at Nigeria’s public universities have been on strike 16 times since 1999. On 14 February 2022 they went back on strike to make it the 17th. Only 11 of Nigeria’s 59 state universities haven’t taken part in the current strike action. The Conversation Africa asked Dele Ashiru, a lecturer…
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Three times Central American migrants bolstered the US labor movement
Elizabeth Oglesby, University of Arizona Tech workers, warehouse employees and baristas have notched many victories in recent months at major U.S. companies long deemed long shots for unions, including Apple, Amazon and Starbucks. To me, these recent union wins recall another pivotal period in the U.S. labor movement several decades ago. But that one was…
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To Transform Work, Start with Schools
By RUBEN ABRAHAMS BROSBE, originally published by Yes! Magazine Not long ago, before the pandemic, I was teaching fourth grade. One of my students, a quiet boy who wore his hair in a long ponytail, hated school. Much of the content felt overwhelming for him, and so he would often run out of the classroom. …
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The most recent efforts to combat teacher shortages don’t address the real problems
Henry Tran, University of South Carolina and Douglas A. Smith, Iowa State University States have recently focused their efforts to reduce the nation’s teacher shortage by promoting strategies that “remove or relax barriers to entry” to quickly bring new people into the teaching profession. California, for example, allows teacher candidates to skip basic skills and…
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Know, Hear, See: A Practical Organizing Concept
Part 1 and Part 2 originally published by The Industrial Worker, found online in the Southern Maine IWW Library: Weakening the Dam Part 1 Know the Union, Hear the Union, See the Union On a 100 degree summer day I was in Stockton, at the Sikh temple meeting room. A middle aged trucker with a…
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Every Boss has a Weak Spot. Find it and Use it.
By Alexandra Bradbury, Jane Slaughter and Mark Brenner for LaborNotes This article is excerpted from the Labor Notes book Secrets of a Successful Organizer, available for $15 at labornotes.org/secrets. Steel production in the late 1800s used to require one crucial step: a 20-minute process called the “blow” that removed impurities, strengthening the metal. It was not unheard…
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