Sentences with phrase «growing labor movement»
Turning the Obama network into a vast national party organization could give Democrats durable advantages that the party has not enjoyed since the New Deal era, when Franklin Roosevelt built an alliance between local political machines and a growing labor movement.
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Instead, America needs to invent, support and grow a new and renewed labor movement that fits the needs of today and tomorrow's workers and economy.
The only things you have to provide are ventilation to make sure there's air movement, labor input to be able to make sure the plants are growing, and water — which is a new challenge for legal operators in California.
Even as knowledgeable a study as Richard Niebuhr's The Social Sources of Denominationalism labors under the error that the social «milieu» out of which religious movements grow determines their character.
As she sees it, the growing success of the feminist movement combined with emancipation from domestic labor via technology to create a crisis for American society just after World War II, when millions of returning servicemen were flooding the job market.
Therefore, there was no need for a new labor party (because the Democrats had already picked up that program) and because there was no meaningful way for such a movement to grow (because the U.S. electoral system only supports two large parties).
From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO in the 1930s - 40s, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1950s,»60s and»70s to the struggles that have given us the «new» labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movements for a progressive, people's agenda — the 99 % — People's World and Mundo Popular have been there.
DiNapoli repeatedly thanked «my brothers and sisters in the labor movement,» noting that he grew up in a union household.
Much of the labor movement has grown more outspoken on climate change.
The Solidarity movement that eventually led to the end of Soviet control grew out of the labor movement, she added.
In this hour, we'll travel Down Under to see a growing climate movement that is as diverse as it is, visiting a primary school where climate action is on the agenda and hearing from Sharan Burrow, general secretary, International Trade Union Confederation, about labor's vital role in the climate fight.