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Home ▸ Month: January 2016

  • OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 29, 2016)

    Did you play in the snow and neglect labor news this week? No worries, we've assembled some of the best labor stories for you to catch up on. Justice for faculty at Loyola! Following a contentious

    Category: In the News Tags: Bargaining for the Common Good, CAP, Center for American Progress, Child labor, Child Slave Labor, Coal Miners, Cole Strangler, Equal Pay, Faculty, Gender Gap, Loyola University Chicago, Overtime, SEIU, Shaun Richman, Slave Labor, Social Justice Unionism, Undocumented Immigrants, Undocumented students, US Senate

  • WCP: Organizing Miracles

    What motivates people to risk their comfort and safety to confront oppression? How can organizing foster a movement that leads to major change? In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metzgar

    Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Church, East Germany, Jack Metzgar, Leipzig, Nonviolence, Organizing, Protest, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

  • OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 22, 2016)

    Will the snowstorm keep you hunkered down all weekend? Catch up on some vital labor stories from the week. Silencing students who speak out for workers. Four Loyola University Chicago students face

    Category: In the News Tags: Aramark, Child labor, Department of Labor, Interest rate swaps, Jesuit Values, Joseph A. McCartin, Loyola University Chicago, NLRB, Overtime, Public Education, Sexual violence, Teachers, the Big Short, Wall Street

  • WCP: Estate Life: Working-Class Communities and Social Housing

    In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield writes that the public housing that many British citizens depend on faces the threat of demolition. Although some view these council estates

    Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Council Estates, Great Britain, John Russo, Public Housing, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

  • OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 15, 2016)

    Did you read nothing but Friedrichs news this week? Thankfully, we've gathered the top labor stories for you to catch up on during the weekend. Blessed be the Union Busters? Although worker righ

    Category: In the News Tags: Bargaining for the Common Good, Fight for 15, graduate students, interns, Just Employment, Lydia DePillis, Overtime, Rahm Emanuel, Shaun Richman, Strike, unpaid interns

  • WCP: Master of None Lacks Class

    Aziz Anzari's Master of None gets a lot of things right. Its attention to racism, sexism, diversity, and the immigrant-family experience make the hilarious new Netflix series feel like a breath of f

    Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Aziz Anzari, Class, Comedy, Diversity, Immgrants, Immigration, Inequality, Master of None, Millennials, Netflix, Precariat, Racism, Sexism, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

  • OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Jan 8, 2016)

    Were you too busy catching up on work to keep up with happenings in the labor world? Fret not, we've gathered the best stories for you here. Don't miss the two gems at the end. Party like it's 1

    Category: In the News Tags: Friedrichs, Harold Meyerson, John Russo, Killer Mike, NLRB, Overtime, Pope Francis, Richard Trumka, UFCW, Wall Street, Working Families Party

  • WCP: Trump, Sanders, and the Precariat

    Stagnant wages and the lack of quality jobs have led recent college graduates and middle-class workers to resent Wall Street, corporate leaders, and politicians for destroying their jobs and communi

    Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, John Russo, Middle Class, Politics, Precariat, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives

  • What you missed in the world of worker justice over the holidays

    Did you go off the grid for the holidays to spend valuable time with loved ones? Did you neglect your email inbox and Twitter account in favor of baked goods, gift exchanges, and the new Star War

    Category: In the News Tags: Christmas, Daily News, Friedrichs, Harold Meyerson, Holidays, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, NLRB, Wall Street

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