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textImmigrants Are Not Hurting U.S.-Born Workers – Six Facts To Set the Record Straight by Economic Policy Institute
Immigration is contributing to strong economic growth—with future immigration forecast to boost real gross domestic product by 2% over the next 10 years—as well as increasing government revenue. Immigrants are also complementing U.S.-born workers by contributing to overall population and workforce growth....
Posted: Fri, Mar 1, 2024 3:52am PST
textLearning for life by Kerstin Chavent
The winners of the digital revolution include hairdressers, plumbers, care and service workers and professions that have something to do with creativity and responsibility (1). It's starting to work in my head. If that is the case, then it is fair to ask whether we still need compulsory education. Why should we all be forced to go to school and learn things that we don't need in our lives?...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2024 7:22am PST
textSFSU Red Week Jan.29-Feb. 2 Rally on Thursday Feb 1 at 12:00 Noon-2PM by CFU SFSU
We're declaring RED WEEK for the first week back to campus at SFSU! Let's build on our strike energy and start our semester grounded in the collective joys and struggles of fighting for the people's university....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2024 10:18pm PST
textTeamster Mobilize: Teamsters Denounce Teamster Gen Pres Sean O'Brien on Trump Visit by Teamster Mobilize
Teamster Mobilize has launched a national petition opposing the visit of Teamster president Sean O'Brien to former president Donald Trump....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2024 9:12pm PST
textMemorandum 2023 by alternative economic policy study group
Ecological restructuring and the expansion of the welfare state must be considered, conceived and coordinated. An active financial policy must compensate for inflation for low-income and poor private households along with bridging programs for energy-intensive companies, including craft businesses. This stabilizing fiscal policy must be complemented by an active monetary policy...
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2023 7:05am PST
textThe Consensus Factory by Wolfgang Teune
Many media companies are largely dependent on advertising revenue. Media that strongly influence the formation of public opinion prefer official sources from state institutions, which, however, reflect the views of the holders of power and accordingly process information in their own interests. Positions that question or even cast doubt on the prevailing narrative are often discredited...
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2023 8:38am PST
text470 Levi's Workers In Turkey Need Support by repost
Workers in Turkey who make Levis are fighting against union busting and need international solidarity...
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2023 8:28am PST
textLetter To NEA President and Officers On Palestine by NEA Members On Palestine
NEA members are circulating a letter to the NEA president and officers on Palestine....
Posted: Sun, Dec 10, 2023 11:43am PST
textThe machine is broken by David Ruccio
Corporations are also using their profits to repurchase their own shares (thereby boosting stock indices to record levels), to finance mergers and acquisitions (which increase concentration, but not investment, and often involve cutting jobs)......
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2023 4:03pm PST
textStop AFT 2121 CCSF Sell Out Of Part Time Faculty by AFT 2121 Member Rick Baum
The AFT 2121 leadership has again sold out part time faculty in their latest agreement....
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2023 1:48pm PST
textHope despite the mess! by Peter Dabrock
There is broad agreement that freedom should not only be measured in terms of one's own well-being, but also in terms of others, especially the socially disadvantaged, and in solidarity with those who lack recognition (see here). The strong welfare state is widely accepted, even by those who pay more than they receive....
Posted: Thu, Nov 30, 2023 5:49am PST
textThe four-day week as a transformation project by Philipp Frey and Stephen Krull
The pandemic, environmental disasters and the current wars have ushered in a new era, a kind of "turning point". As the demand for a reduction in working hours is shared by a broad majority of employees across generations (Lott/Windscheid 2023), this offers the opportunity to produce a conflict that has the potential to have an impact and contribute to renewing the trade union movement....
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2023 4:33am PST
textOpen Letter to UPTE by Elizabeth Milos
Open letter to UPTE union leadership from UPTE member and candidate denouncing UPTE president Dan Russell for suppressing Resolution in Solidarity with Palestine and for not calling for a CEASEFIRE....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 5:40pm PST
textCalifornia Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Statement on the Crisis by CNA NNU
The CNA NNU is supporting a ceasefire....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 8:00am PST
textToo big to fail, too weak to lead by Ingo Schmidt
Through the World Bank and IMF, they were able to push through privatization and the dismantling of social benefits and trade union rights in the over-indebted countries of the South. They also pursued this policy domestically, while corporations and the upper income brackets were spoiled with tax gifts. There were also massive arms orders....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2023 5:26am PST
textCapitalism as Mental Illness by Eric Anderson
As to the stress mechanism, Adam Smith supplied that with his theory of “selfish interest” providing collective benefit. And while it’s inarguable that being forced to compete in a self reinforcing and ever accelerating rat race has provided us with many industrial and technological milestones, we must ask ourselves: at what cost? The fracture of social cohesion?...
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2023 8:21am PDT
textQualitative Break: Why a Radical Critique of Work is Necessary Today by Norbert Trenkle
Capital has increasingly decoupled itself from directly expended labor, and accumulation is now taking place predominantly on the level of financial markets... In large parts of the Global South, the majority has long since been declared ‘superfluous’...
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2023 5:20am PDT
textCourage ahead! by Kerstin Chavent
Every person has the right to behave as he or she sees fit. The dignity of the human being is inviolable - even when we think we see that harm is coming from the behavior of another. This is how we preserve our own dignity. No one can stop us from being the change we want to see in the world ourselves. No one can stop us from believing in the good in people and from resisting,...
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2023 5:27am PDT
textWe are Zombies by Tomasz Konicz
Zombie movies are an apocalyptic genre, in which there is an inkling that the given social order cannot last & has reached its development limits. The first great wave of zombies hit the Western culture industry during the crisis period of the seventies of the 20th century, when the "Golden Age" of post-war capitalism, full employment and mass consumption, came to an end....
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2023 6:17am PDT
textProtesters: “Google, Amazon Cancel Apartheid Cloud Project” by Phil Pasquini
A major demonstration at Moscone Center calling on Google and Amazon to withdraw from their joint project with Israel in developing "Project Nimbus" the AI Cloud surveillance program to monitor Paleastinians....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2023 3:30pm PDT
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