10 Years with the Farmworkers Union

History, Labor - 2 Comments » - Posted on August, 21 at 6:38 pm

By Nick Jones
Since resigning from the UFW in 1976, I have spent 28 years working in four other AFL-CIO unions. I worked 17 years with Local 250, the health care workers’ union (SEIU) in the Bay Area until I retired in 2001.
Some of the things I intend to write here will be controversial, especially for [...]

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Wage Slavery and Capitalism

Economy - No Comments » - Posted on August, 20 at 11:12 pm

By Jim Smith
Slavery existed long before capitalism. As primitive tribes, which once roamed the earth, grew larger they developed a social division of labor. Some of the tribal members became rulers and priests and others became full-time hunters and/or fighters. When members of competing tribes were captured, they often became slaves.
What we call the “ancient” [...]

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