On a recent evening in New York City, I met with eight other people in my City Council Member’s local office, down the block from City College in Harlem. We were the community delegates tasked with discussing over 150 projects proposed at neighborhood assemblies. Our...
Activists in Oakland have been campaigning for new city policies that would assist worker cooperative development. After successfully winning passage of a city resolution in support of cooperatives last fall, they are now pushing for a new law, the Oakland Worker...
The New Economy Coalition (NEC) held its “CommonBound” conference in Buffalo NY last weekend, with nearly 1,000 activists and organizers in attendance. The NEC is a coalition of about 160 organizations that work on various aspects of what they call the “New Economy”....
May 2016 The Solidarity Committee of the Capital District and Solidarity Research Center have released the report SUNY and Sweatshops: How is SUNY Enforcing its Apparel Anti-Sweatshop Policy? It describes an investigation into how well the State University of New...
The labor movements in the U.S. and in many countries around the world have been facing a crisis of decline for decades. As unions lose members and strength, wealth inequality has increased and the agenda of neoliberal austerity has become the norm. However, for...
The global apparel industry is a notorious sweatshop employer, with millions of workers laboring under terrible conditions in dozens of developing countries, making products sold in the Global North. This is an industry that was among the first to undergo the...
