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photos from bruxelles, actionday 19th march 
photos from bruxelles, actionday 19th march...
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 6:35am PST
Report: Wal-Mart Has Highest Number of Employees on Welfare in Homestate Report: Wal-Mart Has Highest Number of Employees on Welfare in Homestate; Retail Giant's Ongoing Media Blitz Fails to Hide Company Record...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:07pm PST
Remembering those who serve …A tribute to America’s food-and-beverage workers From diners and drive-throughs to gourmet restaurants, America’s dedicated foodservice workers embrace their long holiday shifts with cheerful attitudes and even enthusiasm for the stressful, if not Herculean, task at hand. For them, it is the best of times and the worst of times....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:41am PST
General strike in France as workers continue protests against Raffarin government On March 10, tens of thousands of workers throughout France joined a national strike to oppose plans by the government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin to extend working hours beyond the current 35-hour week and to undermine social welfare benefits, including health care and pension rights.
The strike paralysed the country, disrupting transport and services in 55 towns and cities nationwide. Organisers say that nearly one million people participated in demonstrations across the count...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 10:40am PST
UFCW Head Tapped for Citizens' Health Care Working Group Food and Commercial Workers Leader Tapped for Citizens' Health Care Working Group; Panel to Tackle Challenge of Making Quality Health Care More Accessible and Affordable to Every American...
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 2:16pm PST
Dell Fires 30 Tennessee Muslims Over Workplace Prayer Dell Fires 30 Tennessee Muslims Over Workplace Prayer; Muslim Civil Rights Group Calls for Rehiring, Offers Mediation...
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 2:13pm PST
Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Taco Bell Reach Groundbreaking Agreement Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Taco Bell Reach Groundbreaking Agreement; CIW to End Taco Bell Boycott; Taco Bell to Pay Penny-Per-Pound Surcharge Demanded by Workers, Will Work With CIW to Raise Farm Labor Standards in Supply Chain...
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 12:08pm PST
Spain: Battle over Gijón Shipyard Escalates 
The protracted struggle of the shipyard workers of Naval Gijón escalated on March 3, as workers fired home-made rockets at riot police....
Posted: Sun, Mar 6, 2005 12:29pm PST
Why I'm Running for the Work Less Party Again and again the pro-growth politicians have tried to explain away the failure of growth to create eitehr prosperity or full employment.. Growth is a make-believe solution that was never intended to succeed. The Work Less Party of Vancouver, B.C. needs sisters and brothers.www.worklessparty.org...
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 11:32am PST
BTL:Opponents of US Ratification of Central American Free Trade Agreement Say.. ...Victory is Within Reach~ Interview with Shane Stevens, of CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Feb 27, 2005 6:33am PST
Defense Workers' Unions File Suit Against Rumsfeld AFGE, Nine Other DOD Unions Challenge New Personnel System Proposed
Regulations Circumvent the Will of Congress, Say Union Presidents...
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 3:41pm PST
Detecting Dental Deception The dental industry rakes in big bucks from expensive procedures. Daily dosage radiation from X-rays is just one of the hazards dental hygenists are exposed to at work. Promoting fluoride and remaining silent about bioaccumulation of fluoride causing fluorosis keeps the dental chair spinnin' round.....
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 12:28pm PST
"The Take" by Avi lewis & Naomi Klein The National Movement of Factories Recovered by the Workers wants to leave in clear its total opposition al documentary The Takes of Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 11:35am PST
Marx and Makhno vs. McDonald's in Paris This is a good article about non-union working class action against service sector exploiters. It also highlights how the nationalist scumbag Tamil Tigers of Ceylon intervened on the side of Mickey-D's against the wage slaves....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 12:39pm PST
Wal-Mart's Sweetheart Deal Wal-Mart may be the most visible offender of good workplace practices—it's the retail giant progressives love to hate, with good reason. Exhibit A: In a recent deal with the government, Wal-Mart agreed to pay a small fine for breaking child labor laws, with the understanding that next time the feds want to investigate, the retailer will be warned ahead of time. Jonathan Tasini says we can't reform the corruption of the corporate landscape overnight, but a Safe Workplace Act would at lea...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:04pm PST
Repressing the Class Struggle As the employers' president said, capital and labor have long been reconciled among us. He said this while employers forced down wages with the help of politicians, cut pension claims, reduced social benefits and extorted dependent persons by threats of dismissal....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 7:07am PST
New Anti-Capitalist Website: Prole.info Announcing a new anti-capitalist website:
http://www.prole.info
It has lots of pamphlets in PDF form, as well as a number of online texts.
Check it out....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 12:34am PST
Gijón, Spain: Shipyard workers battle riot police 
The shipyard workers of Naval Gijón clashed with riot police for an hour on February 17, 2005, firing homemade rockets and building barricades as part of their ongoing struggle for jobs. The workers were marching towards the city to set up barricades when they were stopped by riot police....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 4:40pm PST
Black History Month This should have preceded the piece Black History Month/White History Month but for some resason it wasn't posted....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 1:51pm PST
Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay Fine for Violating Child Labor Laws Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay Fine for Violating Child Labor Laws; Company Signs Settlement Agreement with Labor Department...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 1:07am PST
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