Opposition to the Colombia deal is not rooted in organized labor's fear of lost jobs, the issue behind unions' opposition to past trade deals like Nafta.
Different approaches to labor — rooted in history and enshrined in national policy — mean that Europeans who are thrown out of work can face a reality, and a future, very different from that of their neighbors.
The party of the future was storming the Capitol under Bombardier Gingrich and advancing steadily through the states; the Democrats were rapidly becoming yesterday's men, rooted in big labor and big government, and doomed to irrelevance by a technological revolution that rewarded individual initiative rather than collective muscle.
As the child of liberal Christian activists--her father Charles Rawlings is a Presbyterian Minister and faith-rooted labor leader--Annie joked about her siblings' childhood games reenacting organizing meetings.
Crawford's brief for skilled manual labor is rooted in firsthand experience: repairing motorcycles fills him with a "sense of agency and competence".
It's crucial for Benjamin that the storyteller be an unrivalled listener, one who imbibes stories rooted in counsel, boredom, labor and death.
The city is home to thousands of factories that are based on an outmoded business model, rooted in cheap, unprotected labor and thin margins.
What we do is basically export certain things, mangoes and coffee, and whatever investments we have in the country tend to be rooted in ultra-cheap labor areas.
To go forward from here, we need to do three things: expand the range of issues we take on when we represent employees in the workplace, change the way we relate to the community, and begin to move away from outdated models for labor activism rooted in the era of the industrial economy.
Most of the landmarks that I've visited display iconic photographs of the movement's labors, largely rooted in the politics and aesthetics of struggle: black youth and integrated Freedom Riders standing, disobediently civil, before snarling police dogs and sneering lunch-counter crowds.
