Labornotes

Labor Notes is a non-profit organization that has been the voice of union activists who want to "put the movement back in the labor movement" since 1979. For years, the labor movement has been reeling from an employers' offensive. We now have real lower wages, less job security, and smaller, weaker unions than the previous generation. Employers are turning what used to be good, steady jobs into poorly-paid drudgery, often dangerous and stressful. Some of us work more overtime than we want; others must make due with part-time or temporary jobs. For the most part, our union leaders are not doing a good job of reversing this trend. Some are on the golf course; other just don't understand that things have changed -- that the old "business-as-usual" way of thinking won't work anymore. Some see the need for major changes, such as new organizing, but don't believe that democracy in our unions is key to making these changes. Labor Notes believes that if the labor movement is to regain the numbers and the power we have lost in past decades, we must deal with the problems we face. Some of these problems are a result of outside influences, but some are our movement's own failings.

The link address is: http://www.labornotes.org/index.html