Labor Activism
Lake Superior Socialist Action and YSA are partisans of the working class, and therefore are very active in the labor movement. We believe in working within the existing unions to try and win them to a class struggle program. We call for the labor movement to break from the Democratic Party and form a labor party, to organize the unorganized and to honor and deepen rank and file control of the unions.
We are proud to have locally played a role in a number of important labor struggles. Among them the organizing drive by HERE to organize Canal Park hotel workers, the efforts by the Teamsters to organize Coke workers, and AFSCME's efforts to organize group home workers in Ashland. We have also been very active in trying to get the local labor movement to join and support the local anti-war movement (which has resulted in the Duluth Central Labor Body endorsing several anti-war protests, along with AFSCME, the Plumbers and the Washburn Teachers union - and most recently in AFSCME formally joining U.S. Labor Against the War). Currently we are also very active in the labor struggle being waged by HERE at the Duluth Airport.
Part of our work in the labor movement is trying to encourage a return to a more militant, class struggle approach. As part of that work we maintain a labor email list called Labor Notebook. We use this newsletter for sending out announcements and commentary on issues and events of interest to the local, regional, national and international labor movement from a class struggle perspective. To subscribe to Labor Notebook click on the box below.
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Below is some analysis, background information, reports and links to resources of use to labor activists. We invite your feedback on the materials posted on this page.
| Duluth Airport Labor Dispute
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 H.E.R.E. Members on Strike at Duluth’s Airport
| Labor & the Anti-War Movement
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Organized Labor's Antiwar Forces, What Next?
Will Labor's Anti-War Mov't. Survive the Elections?
Sweeny Scabs on the Anti-War Movement
Labor’s Antiwar Forces, What Now?
List of Unions Opposed to the War - compiled by Rose Helin.
Duluth Central Labor Body Says No 2 War!
Service Industry Workers Against War launched
Welfare Reform in Wisconsin
What You Should Know About the Price of Gas
The Harsh Reality of Life in the Northwoods for Working People
Report on Oct. 5 Fair Trade rally (2002)
400-500 Rally 4 Hotel Workers on August 20! (2002)
Report on Dec. 6 Duluth Hotel Workers' Rally (2001)
Duluth Hotel Workers Rally 4 Dignity! (2001)
Mumia Abu-Jamal Sends Solidarity Statement 2 Duluth Hotel Workers
Twin Cities Hotel Workers Pass Resolution 4 Mumia!
| Taconite Mining & the Iron Range
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Trade Wars: a look at the fight over steel tariffs
How to Save the Iron Range
The Grim Future Facing Young People on the Iron Range
MN State Workers End Their Strike
Harry DeBoer on "How to Win Strikes
Lessons of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster Strike
Lessons of the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
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