Southern Workers Are Defying History
INEQUALITY
Successful union campaigns in the south could raise wages, reduce poverty, and spread democracy in the former Confederacy.
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A Catholic University With a Radical History Faces a Union Drive of Its Own
Jacobin
Catholic radical Louis J. Twomey’s labor institute at Loyola University New Orleans trained a generation of workers for class struggle. A new union drive among the university’s food service workers draws on that legacy of the best of Catholic trade unionism.
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VA Workers Say Southern States Reopening Too Soon Puts Veterans’ Lives At Risk
In These Times
As Republican governors across the South gear up to reopen businesses in their states over the objections of public health experts, health care workers for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)fear for their vulnerable patients, and for themselves.
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Building on Dr. King's Legacy, North Carolina Municipal Workers Kick Off Bill of Rights Campaign
Labor Notes
Fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr., stood with striking Memphis sanitation workers who were fed up with low pay and dangerous conditions, United Electrical Workers (UE) Local 150 is launching a campaign in the same spirit.
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Nissan Threats, Intimidation Tilt Outcome of Union Election in Mississippi
United Auto Workers
UAW Files New Charges Against Company, Seeks Federal Court Order To Prevent Future Unfair Labor Practices
Charleston Workers Renew Region's Ties to Highlander Center
Facing South
At Highlander, the Charleston workers were joined by 30 other workers — African-American fast-food workers mainly — from Birmingham; Atlanta; Richmond, Virginia; and several cities in North Carolina. Over the course of the two-day workshop, the workers, with a few organizers and guests, practiced talking union to fearful coworkers. They analyzed poems by Langston Hughes and verses from the New Testament, and learned of the history of Highlander.
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Pro-Union Nissan Workers in Mississippi
Labor South
This blog puts a spotlight on the labor activity in the U.S. South you don't read about elsewhere, always keeping it in context with what is going on nationally and internationally in the Global South as well. This blog also provides a historical and cultural (including music, literature, and art) perspective that takes into account the long, hard, and often bloody struggle workers have always had to wage whenever they tried to organize in this region
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