“The beating heart of the labor movement”: report on the 2018 Labor Notes conference
Posted: April 15, 2018 by Admin in At the coalface, capitalist crisis, Class Matters, Commodification, Community organising, Economics, Internationalism, Limits of capitalism, Political & economic power, Public Meeting, Public sector – education, Public sector – health, United States – economy, United States – history, United States – politics, Universities, Workers history, Workers’ rights, Workers’ strikes
by Guy Miller
“The beating heart of the labor movement.” That’s how the moderator of the Friday evening April 6th plenary session of the 2018 Labor Notes (LN) Conference introduced six West Virginia school teachers. The teachers were fresh from a historic victory in their unauthorized – and unexpected – strike. The same could be said about the conference itself: it represented the beating heart of American labor. The record 3,200 activists who attended the three-day Chicago conference were living, fighting proof of that.
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