Trade Unions Need New Strategies By Asbjørn Wahl, The Bullet. September 20, 2020 Trade Unions Need New Strategies2020-09-202020-09-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/eulabor-e1600624918941.jpeg200px200px Above photo: RMT ( Rail, Maritime & Transport ) trade union joins CGT & other European rail unions in protest demonstration in 2008 Paris against EU railways privatisation. Trade unions are on the defensive […]
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Time For Unions To Give The Democratic Party An Ultimatum By Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. September 15, 2020 Time For Unions To Give The Democratic Party An Ultimatum2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/bidenunion-e1600173351445.jpg200px200px Above photo: Frederic J. Brown/ AFP via Getty Images. Money spent on organizing is always well spent. You can’t say the […]
The Queens Congresswoman raised the spectre of de-funding when she called the police departments “enforcement arms of the state with lethal weapons”. Leftwing Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has sailed into another tweetstorm with a virulent criticism of a police labour union that backed Republican President Donald Trump’s re-election bid. The […]
Tenant Unions For The Future By Hannah Black, Dissent Magazine. August 19, 2020 Tenant Unions For The Future2020-08-192020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/tenant-activists-in-crown-heights-brooklyn-on-july-31-2020-by-scott-heins-for-getty-images-e1597809850742.jpg200px200px Above photo: Tenant activists in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on July 31, 2020. Scott Heins for Getty Images. Calls to rent strike have yet to cohere into a national political movement. But as the […]
THIS IS HUGE!President Trump on Wednesday received the key endorsement from the National Association of Police Organizations. Mick McHale, National Association of Police Organizations President said Joe Biden would not even talk to the groups this week. This group endorsed Joe Biden in 2008 and 2012. YUGE: National Association of […]
Cops Off Campus And Out of Our Unions! By David Klassen, Spectre Journal. July 6, 2020 Cops Off Campus And Out of Our Unions!2020-07-062020-07-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/police-face-off-with-protesters-from-sprectre-journal-e1594059121457.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police face off with protesters from Spectre Journal. I am writing this from NYC’s occupied City Hall listening to an abolitionist speech along with a larger […]
AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions By Hamilton Nolan, In These Times. June 29, 2020 AFL-CIO Leader Richard Trumka Defends Police Unions2020-06-292020-06-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/richard-trumka-has-defended-the-inclusion-of-police-unions-in-the-afl-cio.-by-alex-wong-via-getty-images-e1593466462699.jpg200px200px Above photo: Richard Trumka has defended the inclusion of police unions in the AFL-CIO. By Alex Wong via Getty Images. As the AFL-CIO struggles with a growing debate over […]
Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton, during a 2018 press conference. She and other prosecutors want DAs to reconsider taking campaign money from police unions. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption toggle caption Rich Pedroncelli/AP Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton, during a 2018 press conference. She and other prosecutors […]
French prison residents and law enforcement agents have been exposed to COVID-19 from the outset of the pandemic due to irresponsible actions of the French authorities, argue trade unionists Samuel Gauthier and Noam Anouar. On 9 June 2020, Chief Prosecutor of Paris Remy Heitz launched an investigation into the French […]
Signs outside the boarded-up entrance to AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C. read “Black Lives Matter” and “Criminal Justice Reform Now.” Smaller white signs are now attached to them reading: “HEY AFL-CIO, The Posters Are Nice, But If You Believed It You Would KICK THE POLICE UNIONS OUT.” Patrick Semansky/AP hide […]
Police Unions: It’s Time To Change The Law And End The Abuse By Benjamin Sachs, On Labor. June 6, 2020 Police Unions: It’s Time To Change The Law And End The Abuse2020-06-062020-06-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/1599px-george_floyd_protest_columbus-e1591451201215.jpg200px200px Collective action is the source of working people’s power. It is the source of the labor movement’s power. […]
No More Cop Unions By Kim Kelly, The New Republic. May 30, 2020 No More Cop Unions2020-05-302020-05-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/pls-e1590851272376.jpeg200px200px Abolishing police unions should be part of the broader fight to defund, demilitarize, and ultimately dismantle the U.S. police force. When Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department killed 46-year-old George Floyd in […]
Moscow won’t fail to take note of the White House decision to completely exclude the Soviet Union from its message marking Victory in Europe Day, the Foreign Ministry said, calling the act a “distortion” of World War II history. “The US officials have found neither the courage nor the desire […]