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Chicago AFL-CIO Conference Prelude (audio/mpeg 8.7MB) The threat looms over the AFL-CIO that member unions will quit their association...
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 8:41pm PDT
Iraq War Resolutions Battle Heats Up at AFL-CIO Convention The AFL-CIO Convention will be presented with a resolution from the Federation's Council on the war in Iraq - which does not call for a withdrawal of troops, nor for an end to US occupation. USLAW and othe labor activists will attempt to amend the leadership endorsed resolution on the floor of the convention....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 10:46am PDT
AFL-CIO Convention: Iraq War Dispute Once today passes, some of the attention to the internal political fight will abate--though not entirely disappear (more on that later)--and delegates will be able to focus on other issues. One that is of particular concern is what the Federation's position will be on the war in Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 10:41am PDT
Revolution and Counter-revolution in Venezuela: Assessing the Role of the AFL-CIO José Gil’s walk across the shop floor would appear familiar to trade unionists across the United States. As a local union official at the vast CVG Alcasa aluminum plant in Venezuela’s Ciudad Guyana, he made the rounds on a short Sunday shift in August 2004—catching up on family news and listening to concerns and complaints, as molten metal pushed temperatures on an already scorching south-central Venezuelan afternoon to skin-searing levels. The plant’s production was on the increase, thanks t...
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 7:22am PDT
A Third of the AFL/CIO - Possible Faction? Seven major unions equaling a third of the total AFL/CIO membership have joined the Change to Win Coalition, possibly signaling the largest union faction in over three generations....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 1:29am PDT
CONSUMERS TRAMPLED AS TELECOM INDUSTRY RUNS AMOK As Congress prepares to rewrite the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a new wave of merger mania threatens US democratic process....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 2:31pm PDT
The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation We speak with Greg Leroy, author of the book "The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation" that shows how - in case after case - false promises of good jobs and higher tax revenues by large corporations land them huge tax breaks and other subsidies from state and local governments....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 7:11am PDT
Will the AFL-CIO Split? A Debate on the Future of Organized Labor As the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor organization, heads to its convention, we host a debate on the future of organized labor. We speak with Karen Ackerman, political director of the AFL-CIO, Chris Chafe, Chief of Staff at UNITE HERE as well as Kim Moody, co-founder of the rank and file newsletter Labor Notes and professor at Brooklyn College....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 7:10am PDT
Objection!!!: Supreme Court nominee seen as threat to women, labor, racial equality WASHINGTON — Hours after President George W. Bush nominated John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court, fighters for human rights bombarded the Senate with demands that they reject him on grounds he is an enemy of women’s equality, labor rights and voting rights. Roberts’ nomination threatens to push the nation’s highest court further to the right for years to come, they said....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 6:18am PDT
AFL-CIO, Solidarity Center, NED and the Neocons—The Unholy Alliance This is a 14-months investigative report by Lee Siu Hin, for the upcoming AFL-CIO convention in Chicago, IL later this week....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 12:35am PDT
J23-28: AFL-CIO Convention in Chicago - Rank and File Voices Call for Change 
As the AFL-CIO Convention kicks off in Chicago, rank and file union activists get set to speak out....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2005 3:24am PDT
The Legacy of the IWW It . . . looks a lot more than anyone would have suspected, thirty or forty years ago, like a rapidly submerging working-class America today. The world of the Wobs was made up of immigrant workers (like ours now), without steady employment, health plans, social security, or drug benefits (like the future that Republicans and many a Democrat envision), without any responsibility on the part of the filthy rich for the growing class of poor—so much like the society around us. The world of the Wo...
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2005 1:28pm PDT
Chicago, IWW Centenary - Staughton Lynd’s remarks on Solidarity Unionism ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 1:46pm PDT
24: National Rank and File Labor Conference in Chicago: Take Back Our Unions! A one day rank and file labor conference on Sunday, July, 24 - the day before the AFL-CIO National Convention opens in Chicago....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 12:19am PDT
BTL:Shortage of Nurses in U.S. Connected to Cost-Cutting, Restructuring and... ...Disrespect ~ Interview with Suzanne Gordon, author and journalist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 4:42am PDT
The Recent Italian Fares Strikes are a Model for San Francisco The following is an account from participants in fare strike actions this spring in Italy, and a leaflet issued by the strikers...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 1:17pm PDT
US: mass layoffs continue The bankrupt supermarket chain Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. said Tuesday that it would sell or close 326 stores and cut 22,000 jobs. The company currently operates 901 stores in nine Southern states and 12 in the Bahamas....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 5:15am PDT
Bush, Congress snatch funds from injured 9/11 workers Ever since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has invoked the mass killings of that day and, in particular, the heroism of firefighters and other workers who responded to the catastrophe to promote a policy of global militarism and attacks on democratic rights....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 5:16am PDT
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