Caty Simon and The Virtues of Vice (Part One)
Soon after I was asked to guest blog at Feministe I emailed my internet friend Caty to ask if I could interview her for one of my posts. She maintains the fabulous blog The Virtues of Vice and is generally one of my favorite people to talk with about politics or pop culture or pretty [...]
...read moreCLEAN Carwash!
We’re still at it! This Sunday, May 3rd, the CLEAN Carwash Campaign and Progressive Jewish Alliance will be picketing the Vermont Hand Wash at 1666 N. Vermont Avenue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Although no carwash in Los Angeles can be described as “good,” the owners of the Vermont Hand Wash in Los Feliz [...]
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In Honor of Fair Pay Day
Re-posting this awesome guest-post by Sarah Jaffe. Sarah has another fair pay post up today — head over there and read it. Here’s Sarah: So our economy is falling apart, right? And the government keeps bailing out these massive financial firms while talking Very Sternly to the auto company CEOs about how they need to [...]
...read moreUnions, Women and Fair Labor Practices: Why the Employee Free Choice Act is a Feminist Issue
A guest-post by Sarah Jaffe So our economy is falling apart, right? And the government keeps bailing out these massive financial firms while talking Very Sternly to the auto company CEOs about how they need to restructure and cut costs. Of course, the number one cost CEOs and reporters love to talk about is the [...]
...read moreCitigroup Uses Bailout Money to Lobby Against Workers Rights
According to the Huffington Post, Citigroup has been caught using some of its $50 billion in federal bailout (TARP) money to help organize large corporations against the Employee Free Choice Act — an important piece of legislation which would make it easier for workers to unionize and demand better wages and benefits, not to mention [...]
...read moreProtest for a CLEAN Carwash!
Hey all! No, this isn’t a book review. Even better: an invitation! Who: Progressive Jewish Alliance and the CLEAN Carwash Campaign. More importantly, though: YOU. What: A picket line to protest a failure to pay minimum wages, a lack of basic health and safety protections, and numerous other workers’ rights violations in the Los Angeles [...]
...read moreBatgirl Demands Equal Pay!
I thought this video promoting equal pay for women was really cute: (Don’t read the YouTube comments; just a general life rule, don’t read the YouTube comments.) Visit the Out of the Way of Fair Pay website, and contact the Chamber of Commerce to demand equal pay for equal work.
...read moreMyths About Labor Unions: Capitalist Salvos in the Class War
Every now and then, someone will take me to task for being a proud member of a labor union. “Why do you belong to a union? They just take your money and run!” or “But unions are so anti-woman!” or “But you’re smart—why do you need to belong to a union?” Sometime it isn’t personal. [...]
...read moreCan We Call It a Recession, Yet?!
The economic picture over here in “flyover country” isn’t very rosy. The overall unemployment rate in Illinois is 7.3%, but there are sections of the state where the rate is even higher. The State of Illinois is laying off 450 of its employees, and closing 11 state parks and 12 historic sites (including the Frank [...]
...read moreLabor’s Hidden History: Bloomington, Illinois and the Labor Party
As I watch the election coverage, read and listen to endless arguments about the value of third parties and/or shifting a major one to the left for a change…..I can’t help but think about how much history has been vanished from the standard-issue history books, how historical amnesia is no accidental occurence. And especially, how [...]
...read moreEight Hours for Work, Eight Hours for Rest, Eight Hours for What We Will!
That was the motto for the Eight-Hour Movement, chanted in labor demonstrations and union halls far and wide in the latter part of the 1800s. The fight for the eight hour day was a long one, originating with the onset of the Industrial Revolution itself (first in the form of the ten-hour day, with two [...]
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