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On June 18, 1954, the CIA-trained coup against democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz began, an event that crushed Guatemalan labor, happened with the complicity of the American labor movement, and significantly destabilized Guatemala, helping to create the violence that afflicts that nation and the...
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Out of Sight Excerpt

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On June 16, 2015
In These Times published an excerpt of Out of Sight. If you've been wondering what it's about it, you can read a chunk of it at the link. A bit of it: Women make up the vast majority of the workforce, but men make up...

Labor Unity

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On June 13, 2015

Noam Scheiber's dissection of how labor so successfully torpedoed the Trans Pacific Partnership in the House (thus far anyway, again I'm still suspicious this passes somehow) shows how labor can.

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Corporate Standards

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On June 6, 2015
Patagonia is receiving some kudos for taking steps to clean up its supply chain. After investigating conditions in its supply chain, mostly at factories in Taiwan, it discovered all the usual problems, including forced labor and slavery. It has set new standards for its suppliers...

Noncompete Clauses

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On June 4, 2015

Chris Murphy and Al Franken have introduced a bill to ban one of the most egregiously oppressive practices against low-wage workers: noncompete clauses. The bill from Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

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