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The Vision Thing: Keeping Union Reform on Track | Labor Notes

By

Jane Slaughter

We spoke with officers and staffers from a variety of unions and we drew on many conversations over the years with struggling reformers.

Photo of a sign that says stay union strong above a red circle with diagonal red line in which are the letters RTW

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Bill: Taking on Right to Work is not a suicide mission; it is strategically essential.

By

Bill Fletcher Jr.

"Right to Work," since first authorized by the Taft-Hartley Act, has served as a slow-acting poison in the veins of the US working class. It has had a particularly devastating impact on workers in the South and Southwest, but has spread to other regions as part of an on-going right-wing effort to annihilate labor unions.

Thousands of Honduran workers occupy land

Thousands of Honduran farm workers have launched a co-ordinated land occupation, squatting on about 12,000 hectares nationwide and fuelling…