Working Class

Upheaval In The Factories Of Juarez

January 29, 2016 Alana Semuels, www.theatlantic.com Educate! Mexico, Protests, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs, Working Class

By Alana Semuels for The Atlantic - CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Women and men, more than 70 of them, were fired on December 9th from the factory on the Mexican side of the Mexico-Texas border where they made printers for the American company Lexmark. They say they were terminated because they were trying to form an independent union. The company says they were fired because they caused a “workplace disruption.” Now, the workers protest by occupying a makeshift shack outside the factory, still advocating for a raise and for a union, even though they no longer have jobs.

Sweden Moves To 6-Hour Work Day, Better For Everybody

October 14, 2015 Weinenkel, www.dailykos.com Create! Sweden, Working Class

By Weinenkel for Daily Kos - Sweden has been slowly, but surely, moving towards a 6-hour workday. Filimundus, an app developer based in the capital Stockholm, introduced the six-hour day last year. “The eight-hour work day is not as effective as one would think," Linus Feldt, the company’s CEO told Fast Company. "To stay focused on a specific work task for eight hours is a huge challenge. In order to cope, we mix in things and pauses to make the work day more endurable. At the same time, we are having it hard to manage our private life outside of work."

‘Justice Or Else’ For Black, Brown And Indigenous Americans

October 2, 2015 Reggie Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Racial Justice, Working Class

By Reggie Harris for The Huffington Post - Twenty years ago, there was a gathering of men in the U.S. Capital to address the exact issues that Black, Brown and Indigenous Americans are struggling against today. That gathering is known as the Million Man March. Its purpose was to bring attention to the issues of mass incarceration, low-paying jobs, joblessness, poverty, police brutality, low-quality education and inadequate housing among many others. The Honorable Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam served as the lead organization in bringing all of the March participants together, and the country hasn't seen anything like it since. Twenty years later, the struggle of Black, Brown and Indigenous Americans is getting worse.

We Are All Greeks Now

July 14, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Austerity, Europe, Greece, Poverty, Working Class

By Chris Hedges in Truth Dig - The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. They know underemployment and unemployment. They know life without a pension. They know existence on a few dollars a day. They know gas and electricity being turned off because of unpaid bills. They know the crippling weight of debt. They know being sick and unable to afford medical care. They know the state seizing their meager assets, a process known in the United States as “civil asset forfeiture,” which has permitted American police agencies to confiscate more than $3 billion in cash and property. They know the profound despair and abandonment that come when schools, libraries, neighborhood health clinics, day care services, roads, bridges, public buildings and assistance programs are neglected or closed. They know the financial elites’ hijacking of democratic institutions to impose widespread misery in the name of austerity. They, like the Greeks, know what it is to be abandoned.

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