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- The Labor Party's Pittsburgh Convention
Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 BETWEEN NOVEMBER 13-15 in Pittsburgh, over 1400 delegates from six national unions, over two hundred local unions and thirty-nine chapters of the Labor Party met for its first Constitutional Convention. These delegates, representing trade union bodies whose memberships total over one million (and some thousands of party members), recommitted the LP to the comprehensive program adopted at the founding convention in Cleveland in 1996.
- Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
Resource Type: Article Published: 1998 IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.
- The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream? Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Americas fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
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