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Alianza Braceroproa joins La Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona. 
Alianza Braceroproa held a press conference in San Cristóbal de Las Casas to make public their alignment with La Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 4:01pm PDT
Wage-cutting and profit-gouging in the midst of the Katrina disaster In a shameless display of a brutal class policy, President Bush on Thursday suspended the provisions of a law that requires employers to pay the locally prevailing wage to workers on federally financed projects. The suspension applies to areas of the country devastated by Hurricane Katrina—parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 6:49am PDT
Bush Uses Disaster to Ram Through Low-Wage Work Sept. 9—With the federal government poised to spend more than $50 billion to rebuild areas destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, the AFL-CIO is calling on Congress to reverse President George W. Bush’s Sept. 8 executive order that would allow contractors to pay substandard wages to construction workers in the affected areas....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 11:18am PDT
Detroit union betrays teachers, agrees to concessions contract In a meeting on Wednesday, the leadership of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) presented to its membership the contract that the union has negotiated with the Detroit City School District to cover the 2005-2006 school year. By a large majority, the several thousand teachers and staff voted to return to work on the basis of the contract, pending a final ballot September 6. The agreement averted a potential strike by the teachers....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:58am PDT
The Northwest strike: the end of the AFL-CIO and political lessons for the working class It is necessary to speak bluntly. The scabbing against striking Northwest mechanics by the other unions at the airline demonstrates that the American trade unions are dead as organizations of the working class and cannot be revived....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 6:33am PDT
Northwest Airlines gloats over union-busting against striking mechanics Three days into a strike by mechanics at Northwest Airlines, executives have begun to gloat over the ability of the company to continue operations....
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 8:22am PDT
Striking Northwest Airlines mechanics face union-busting assault Northwest Airlines, the fourth largest US carrier, launched a massive strikebreaking operation against its mechanics and airplane cleaners, members of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Organization (AMFA), who struck at 12:01 a.m. Saturday....
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2005 9:20am PDT
Texas AFL-CIO takes stand against ‘Minutemen’ HOUSTON — The Texas AFL-CIO held its 45th convention at the new, all-union Hilton Americas Hotel here Aug. 11-13.
Among its decisions, the convention took a strong stand in support of immigrant rights and against racism — particularly against the “Minutemen” vigilantes who are threatening to carry out their anti-immigrant program in Houston this October....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 6:45am PDT
Out & Equal Workplace Summit - Denver - September 22-24 For the past 15 years, the Out & Equal Workplace Summit has brought together
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees, straight allies and
human resources and diversity professionals to share best practices that
address LGBT workplace equality....
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 12:12am PDT
BTL:Hardball White House Tactics Win Passage of CAFTA ...Central America Free Trade Agreement ~ Interview with John Cavanaugh, director of The Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 7:06am PDT
New York City transit to cut conductor jobs According to a preliminary 2006 budget released by the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) last week, New York City subways will eliminate conductor positions in trains running on four lines. The job cuts are to hit the 7, N, J, and M lines, with 313 conductor jobs wiped out beginning in 2007....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 10:18am PDT
BTL:Split in AFL-CIO Could Spur New Organizing But Dissidents Fail to... ...Address Fundamental Flaws ~ Interview with Stanley Aronowitz, professor of sociology and author conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 6:05am PDT
The AFL-CIO and the Iraq war James Petras exposes the myth promulgated by some U.S. leftists that the AFL-CIO convention passed a resolution against the U.S. war on Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 5:22am PDT
Labor needs a hard left turn Bill Fletcher is president of TransAfrica, a national policy organization in Washington, D.C., dealing with issues surrounding Africa. After the reform administration of John Sweeney was elected to head the AFL-CIO in 1995, Fletcher became the labor federation's director of education and later an assistant to President Sweeney....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 7:19am PDT
Policías Auxiliares en Huelga de Hambre en D.F. || Police on Hunger Strike in Mexico City 
Bernardo, Guillermo y Miguel, son tres de cinco Expolicías Auxiliares del D.F. (México). Desde hace 23 días ellos viven en un campamento hecho de lonas y camas de unicel, en la plancha del Zócalo capitalino frente a la oficina del Jefe de gobierno, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. || Bernardo, Guillermo and Miguel are three of five former Auxiliary Police from Mexico City, Mexico. For 23 days, they have been living in a cloth tent with styrofoam beds in the Zolcalo in front of the office of Gover...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 2:16pm PDT
UFCW MOVES FOR A REVITALIZED LABOR MOVEMENT, DISAFFILIATES FROM AFL-CIO Letter From UFCW International President Joe Hansen to AFL-CIO...
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 6:09pm PDT
CAFTA--Continue The Fight Please contact your representatives right now and thank them if they voted with working families. But if they voted wrong, put the heat on—make sure they know there are consequences for voting against working families....
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 1:41pm PDT
Major Unions Disaffiliate from the AFL/CIO 7/25: Leaders of two of the largest unions in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. - the Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters - said today that they are quitting the federation in an expected but highly controversial move that underscores a major schism in the national labor movement....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 9:19pm PDT
Labor's Third Voice Speaks in Chicago Another conference was taking place in Chicago during the AFL-CIO convention of rank and file workers.
It was however completely censored out by the press....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 10:52am PDT
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