Freedom Road Socialist Organization


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ANALYSIS

Report on the Labor Movement in the U.S. by Joe Iosbaker, FRSO Labor Commission Chair. Overview and analysis of the labor movement in the U.S., and the role of communists within the U.S. labor movement.  This paper was presented at May Day 1998 conference hosted by Workers Party of Belgium (This document is also available in French)

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NEWS AND INFORMATION

The following are links to many articles about the labor movement that are from the website of Fight Back! newspaper.  It is organized alphabetically by state and by sector or company where applicable

Airline Industry
Auto Industry

Labor Party
New Directions
Teamsters
Workers & Globalization

AFL-CIO
Miscellaneous Workers Struggles

California
Illinois
Univ. of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
Iowa
International
Michigan
Minnesota
Southern Workers
Wisconsin
 

 

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LINKS

Labor Notes a voice of union activists who want to "put the movement back in the labor movement" through rank and file democracy. Labor Notes is a place to learn about the struggles, strategies, and solutions within the labor movement today.

Teamsters for a Democratic Union is the united rank and file movement to reform the Teamsters

743 New Leadership Slate is the website of the Teamsters Local 743 New Leadership Slate, a rank-and-file group withinTeamsters Local 743.

Labor Party is a new political party of, by and for working people. It was founded in June 1996 at a convention of 1,400 delegates from hundreds of local and international unions as well as individual activists. We believe that on issues most important to working people – trade, health care, and the rights to organize, bargain and strike – both the Democrats and Republicans have failed working people...

Labornet.org global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement

Strikes Page quotes from many people about the power of strikes