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textGM slashes, workers bleed by PWW (reposted)
The heartland of America skipped a beat June 6 when Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors, announced plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs. A few days later the corporation gave the United Auto Workers until the end of the month to accept savage cutbacks in health benefits for 1.1 million active and retired workers and their families....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:23am PDT
textIWW Web Sites Upgraded! by IWW
Coinciding with our 100th anniversary, the IWW is pleased to announce its new and improved website! Our site now includes dynamic news content, IWW member log-ins, IWW news content that can be syndicated, RSS / XML feeds, live RSS / XML links, member forums, an events calendar, and much more. All of our old site content is also featured here, mostly in the familiar locations....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 12:44pm PDT
imageWhat's Good for GM...On the State of the U.S. Economy
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by Sara Burke
When Standard & Poor’s credit raters gave thumbs down to General Motors and Ford on May 5th, the once mighty U.S. auto companies tumbled from investment grade to junk bond status. Mainstream folk wisdom once proclaimed, “What’s good for GM is good for the country,” but that aphorism came from the 1950s, during the long post-WWII “golden age,” when U.S. capitalism was on the rise, and the standard of living for U.S. workers improved year after year. That long economic boom ended with the oil...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 5:26pm PDT
textNewmont's toxic shock wave of cyanide drenched gold by luna moth
Newmont's gold mine in Nevada introduces cyanide into the Humboldt River ecosystem, yet workers and local downriver residents are dependant on the mine for cost of living needs.....
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 5:09pm PDT
text 'Make Wal-Mart Care about Health Care' Campaign Launches in Arkansas and Nationwide by "Make Wal-Mart Care About Health Care&qu
Wal-Mart's health care crisis and the direct cost to taxpayers at both the state and federal. The press conference will begin with a "Wake Up Call" to Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart, in which Scott will be told that it's time for Wal-Mart to provide decent and affordable health care for its workers...
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 7:04pm PDT
textUGSOA and The Three Stooges - Caleb Gray-Burriss - Ulysses Hampton and Calvin Jackson by UGSOA NEWS
2005 UGSOA Constitutional Convention Thanks to all who attended the 2005 UGSOA International Union Convention. It was a great success. Special thanks go out to our guests Caleb Gray-Burriss and Ulysses Hampton from the National Association of Special Police and Security Officers (NASPSO) union based out of Washington DC and to Calvin Jackson of the Independent Security Police Union out of Chicago, Illinois. It was a pleasure to coordinate efforts with other unions across the country....
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 3:10pm PDT
textOct2005 Bolivian Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival by LaborFest
The first Bolivian International Working Class Film and Video Festival will be held this coming October in El Alto, Boliva. Films from throughout the hemisphere will be screened...
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 7:29pm PDT
videoSlide Show of Chavista May Day March (video/x-ms-wmv 8.6MB) by Jonathan Nack
Slide Show of May Day with the Chavistas....
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 4:43am PDT
textThe Myth of the “Fiscal Crisis” by richard Mellor
The first step that must be taken if we are to reverse the cuts and prevent the destruction of the New Deal’s gains is to understand in our own minds that there is no fiscal crisis....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 9:29am PDT
textPupl strike causing national emergency threath by Ake Tyvi
Finland’s Paper Union has been having and still is having a strike at the moment. The strike is causing severe damage to labor buttocks....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 11:49pm PDT
textWhat path toward an independent workers movement? (re Million Workers March) by Communist Voice Organization
A leaflet of the Communist Voice Organization presented at the Detroit Conference of the Million Workers March held May 14-5. The leaflet opposes the alliance with certain Detroit city council members and union bureaucrats that has developed within the Detroit organization of MWM and opposes the same policy nationally....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 9:37pm PDT
textThe Wal-Mart Museum of Art by Mark Vallen - Art For A Change
Los Angeles artist, Mark Vallen, writes on his Art For A Change web log: "There is no better example of how politics is intertwined with art than the spectacle of an art museum being founded by a rapacious corporation well known for exporting US jobs overseas and profiting from foreign sweat shop labor."...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 11:42am PDT
imagePhotos from Gigantic May Day March in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2005
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by Jonahan Nack
Photos of the May Day march in Caracas, Venezuela organized by Unidad Nacionale de Trabajadores (UNT) in support of the government of President Hugo Chavez Frias. Copyright Epicenter News Service - All rights reserved...
Posted: Sat, May 14, 2005 3:00am PDT
imageGigantic May Day March Rocks Caracas
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by Jonathan Nack
Two May Day marches highlighted the growing role and power of workers in Venezuela. One was immense and jubilant - yet another sign of the enormous support enjoyed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias. The other was far smaller and more somber, yet still showed that determined opposition to President Chavez is not exclusive to the rich....
Posted: Sat, May 14, 2005 1:44am PDT
textAmericans Join Together to Demand Wal-Mart Change by Wake-Up Wal-Mart
51 Members of Congress and 21,788 Americans Join Together to Demand Wal-Mart Change; Political, Grassroots Pressure on Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart, to End Discrimination at Wal-Mart Grows...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 1:22pm PDT
imageMay Day 2005
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by %
May Day is an international day of worker solidarity and anti-capitalist struggle, which began in the United States and became international in response to the repression of Chicago anarchists and eight-hour work day movement in the 1880s....
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 3:20pm PDT
text5/1-8 This Week is Cover the Uninsured Week by Cover the Uninsured Week
41% of Uninsured Adults Unable to See a Doctor When Needed Due to Cost...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 10:55pm PDT
imageSpring rebellions show student-workers, unions and community a potent force
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by Bryan G. Pfeifer
Although carefully concealed or downplayed by the big business media, burgeoning campus rebellions and related struggles are rising to a fever pitch across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and elsewhere....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 5:54pm PDT
textIndustry without Happiness: On the Guaranteed Minimum Income by Thomas Schmid
A basic income could heal our fragmented society caught in work fanaticism and work fetishism while work disappears..A basic income could change social attitudes and goals and give real meaning to the human rights to life and participation....
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 7:16am PDT
imageYale, Columbia, UMass Amherst grad students fight back
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by Bryan G. Pfeifer
Graduate student-workers and their allies at three of the biggest universities in the Northeast are engaging in massive, spirited work actions this week, April 18-22....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 7:17pm PDT
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