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Millionaires for Prop 75 Despite claims by its proponents that Prop. 75 is a “paycheck protection” measure, the millionaires who are funding the initiative have no interest in protecting paychecks, wages, health care or collective bargaining rights. Their agenda is to protect their own business interests and roll back the protections workers have won through unions....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 12:01pm PDT
Agreement near on local, state labor unity The struggle to preserve labor unity at state and local levels appeared to make some progress last week as the AFL-CIO and Change to Win federation reached an “agreement in principle” on implementing a “Solidarity Charter” program. The program would allow locals of unions that disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO at the national level to continue as members of state federations and central labor councils....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 10:40pm PDT
US auto union goes to court against its own members The degeneration of the American trade unions has long been a repugnant spectacle with tragic consequences for the working class. But the events of the last week in Detroit have underscored a basic rule of thumb: never underestimate how low the labor bureaucracy can descend in its services to corporate America....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 10:37pm PDT
US Senate rejects increase in minimum wage On Wednesday, the US Senate rejected a proposal to raise the national minimum wage from its current level of $5.15 per hour. As a result, it is unlikely that the minimum wage will be raised this year, making 2005 the eighth straight year in which the wage has remained unchanged....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 6:28am PDT
British Columbia teachers strike in grave danger The militant two-week strike that 40,000 British Columbia teachers have mounted against a government-imposed contract, in defiance of a battery of antiunion laws and in defence of public education, is in grave danger....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 6:25am PDT
New Orleans: school staff face massive cuts in jobs, benefits The New Orleans Public School (NOPS) board is moving to break up the city’s public school system and force though massive cuts to the jobs, pay and benefits of its workforce in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:00am PDT
Union and NDP leaders conspire to close down British Columbia teachers strike Hundreds of thousands of workers in British Columbia are poised to join walkouts in the coming days in support of the province’s 40,000 public school teachers and the challenge that they are mounting to a battery of antiunion laws and the BC Liberal government’s agenda of slashing public and social services....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 6:58am PDT
US auto union in deal with GM to slash health benefits General Motors announced Monday that it had reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers union (UAW) to drastically reduce the company’s health care costs for hundreds of thousands of hourly workers, retirees and their dependents....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 7:45am PDT
General Strike Begins in British Columbia In a matter of days, all of the contradictions that have been building over the last four years in British Columbia have come to the fore. Gordon Campbell's mis-named Liberals have spent their time in power attacking the working class - slashing social programs, closing schools and hospitals, ripping up collective agreements and sending tuition sky-rocketing. This has been met with several waves of unrest. The workers of this province have fought back with demonstrations, strikes and occupati...
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 6:25am PDT
The Employers Can Be Stopped Starting With Delphi The Capitalist's offensive against Delphi workers can be thrown back but not without returning to the methods of the thirties...
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 5:53pm PDT
Workers Independent News - October 13th edition Welcome to labor's free online newspaper, produced by the Workers Independent News....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:43pm PDT
Delphi outlines plant closings, wage-cutting in US bankruptcy filing In its filing before the Federal Bankruptcy Court Saturday, the US automotive parts giant Delphi Corporation outlined its plans to shut down or sell off dozens of plants in the US and Canada, destroy thousands of jobs and impose sweeping wage, health-care and pension cuts on its 33,000 union employees and 12,000 retirees....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 11:31pm PDT
MEXICO: SOLIDARIDAD URGENTE CON LA LUCHA DE LOS TRABAJADORES DEL COLEGIO DE BACHILLERES Desde hace 40 días los trabajadores del Colegio de Bachilleres (CB) de México estallamos la huelga en una firme y decidida lucha contra la violación al Contrato Colectivo de Trabajo (CCT) y por mejoras concretas laborales, como una jubilación digna....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 11:25pm PDT
Tucson unites behind miners TUCSON, Ariz. — Workers in Mexico are “standing strong” with the 1,500 copper miners on strike against multinational giant ASARCO corporation, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson told a Sept. 29 rally here. Two hundred supporters at the rally included representatives of most local and state unions, elected officials, Jobs with Justice and campus groups from the University of Arizona....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 7:03am PDT
New Orleans lays off half its workforce In another cruel blow to the city most devastated by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin delivered pink slips on Tuesday to about 3,000 of the city’s 6,000 workers. Nagin said they were being laid off because there was insufficient money to meet the payroll and that additional job cuts were likely in the future....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 6:49am PDT
Change to Win holds founding convention ST. LOUIS — Seventy-five percent of Change to Win’s $16 million budget will be earmarked for union organizing, delegates to the labor federation’s founding convention decided here Sept. 27. The affiliating unions are the Service Employees, Teamsters, Carpenters, Laborers, Food and Commercial Workers, Farmworkers, and Unite Here, which takes in hotel, apparel, laundry and casino workers. All but the Laborers and Farmworkers have disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO in recent months....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:10am PDT
Forum of Organized Anarchism - Declaration of Principles 
A process in the building
The Declaration of Principles of the Forum of Organized Anarchism, an initiative which is seeking to foster greater cooperation and unity amongst organized anarchist groups in Brazil....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2005 6:31pm PDT
There's an explanation for all this “It will be a hard pill for many Americans to swallow--the idea of doing with less so that big business can have more...Nothing that this nation, or any other nation, has done in modern economic history compares with the selling job that must be done to make people except this reality.” (Business Week 10-12-74.)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 3:50pm PDT
No post-Katrina letup in assault on wages US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 6:32am PDT
Northwest and Delta executives to make millions from bankruptcies Over the last several years the top corporate executives at Northwest and Delta airlines negotiated retirement packages guaranteeing them millions in the event the companies declared bankruptcy and defaulted on their pension payments to employees. Both companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last Wednesday, in large measure to escape their pension obligations and seek the bankruptcy court’s backing for sweeping cuts in airline workers’ jobs, wages and benefits....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:56am PDT
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