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Chicago, IWW Centenary - Staughton Lynd’s remarks on Solidarity Unionism
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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
Peasant unrest continues in China
A series of militant rural protests in China has revealed that peasants are being forced into increasingly desperate forms of rebellion to try to stem the destruction of their living standards. Far from creating “a harmonious society”, as claimed in March at the National Peoples Congress, Beijing’s free market policies are opening up deep social fissures and provoking social unrest....
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 10:17pm PDT
GM slashes, workers bleed
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
IWW Web Sites Upgraded!
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
What's Good for GM...On the State of the U.S. Economy
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
Newmont's toxic shock wave of cyanide drenched gold
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
'Make Wal-Mart Care about Health Care' Campaign Launches in Arkansas and Nationwide
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
UGSOA and The Three Stooges - Caleb Gray-Burriss - Ulysses Hampton and Calvin Jackson
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
Oct2005 Bolivian Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival
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
Slide Show of Chavista May Day March (video/x-ms-wmv 8.6MB)
Slide Show of May Day with the Chavistas....
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 4:43am PDT
The Myth of the “Fiscal Crisis”
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
Pupl strike causing national emergency threath
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
What path toward an independent workers movement? (re Million Workers March)
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
The Wal-Mart Museum of Art
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