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...corporate average fuel efficiency—the average fuel efficiency for all autos sold in America—up from the current levels of 27 miles per gallon (mpg) for cars and 20.7 mpg for “light trucks.” Unfortunately, the powerful automobile industry and workers?? unions convinced 62 senators to vote against the amendment, which would have increased our fuel efficiency standards for all vehicles to 36 miles per gallon over the next 13 years...
...essential fact that critics of the Living Wage Campaign’s tactics have overlooked is that what they call “coercion” is and always has been the only effective expression of workers?? organized power in the absence of workplace democracy. Strikes, pickets, boycotts and media campaigns are not intended to convince corporations that exploiting their workers is immoral. To expect this would be hopelessly naive. Workers go on strike to cripple their employer severely enough that paying workers more is the less costly alternative. Farm workers organized the historic California grape boycott...
...military’s days in Afghanistan may be numbered, but for many humanitarian workers??including Anne E. Goldfeld, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS)—the work is just beginning...
Meanwhile, it has been suggested that the host city “must be committed to fairness and inclusion, have a strong union presence and have a history of respecting workers?? rights.” As a Democratic stronghold, Bostonians have a tradition of supporting worker’s interests...
Focusing on workers around the world, the PSLM anti-sweatshop campaign, in the form of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops, is still fighting to get the University to join the Workers?? Rights Consortium, an independent monitoring organization to which more than 90 colleges and universities belong. There is an enormous, growing world-wide movement against the excesses of corporate globalization, and the struggles for living wages and against sweatshops are all a part of that movement...