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The sudden end of the New York transit strike: A preliminary assessment The sudden end of the three-day strike that shut down New York City’s mass transit system has underscored both the enormous class tensions building up in America, the heart of world capitalism, and the deep-going crisis of leadership and perspective in the working class....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:33pm PST
New York Transit Strike Ends "Hold your head high when you report to work."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 12:03pm PST
NYC Strike Hailed As Battle For Nation-Wide Labor Movement By Pension Reform Advocates As the NYC transit workers continue to strike into day three, they continue to push for demands including reform of a pension plan, which labor movement activists view as important to the nation-wide movement. We speak with Frank Emspak, director of Workers Independent News, and Juan Gonzalez....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 9:24am PST
NYC Transit Strike Enters Third Day: Negotiations Resume, Threats to Workers Heat Up New York City’s subway and bus system remains shut down as 33,000 transit workers have entered their third day on strike. On day two of the strike, a state judge threatened to jail union leader Roger Toussaint and two union officials for organizing the citywide strike. As we await the outcome of continuing negotiations, we speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez about the strike....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 9:22am PST
New York City transit workers defiant: “Bloomberg and his friends are the thugs, not us” On the second day of the strike by 34,000 New York City transit workers, they expressed defiance in the face of threats of massive fines, the media campaign to vilifying them and the treachery of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) International leadership. Picket lines have been set up at train and bus depots throughout the five boroughs of the city, in neighborhoods where transit workers live and are well known....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 8:17am PST
New York transit strikers confront escalating attacks 
As the New York City transit strike enters its third day, the authorities have sharply escalated attacks aimed at bludgeoning 34,000 bus and subway workers into submission....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 8:16am PST
12/23/05 KPFA Labor Show "Labor Rights Are Human Rights" The KPFA Labor Collective will be programming a show titled "Labor Rights Are Human Rights"
on Friday December 23, 2005 at 6:30 PM on KPFA FM 94.1. It is also available on the internet...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 3:13pm PST
United Labor Action Can Smash the Taylor Law! Victory to the Transit Workers Strike!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 2:04pm PST
Mayor Bloomberg Condemns New York City Transit Strike, MTA Workers Hold Firm New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg condemns a strike by 33,000 transit workers that has shut down the country's largest public transportation system for the first time in 25 years. We play an excerpt of Bloomberg's press conference, hear New York City commuters and transit workers explaining their reasons for the strike and we speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez who has been closely covering the strike....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:30am PST
New York transit workers set up picket lines: “Today’s strike is for all working people” 
Tens of thousands of New York City transit workers walked off the job Tuesday morning and set up picket lines at bus barns and train yards scattered throughout the city, shutting down operations that move some seven million passengers daily, the largest mass transit system in the US....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:25am PST
The New York transit strike: A new stage in the class struggle The World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party salute the 34,000 transit workers of New York City, whose courage in the face of draconian threats has provided an inspiring example of determination and solidarity to the working class throughout the United States and, indeed, internationally. The strike by transit workers is an event of international significance. Defying massive fines and even the threat of jail, the strike represents a direct challenge to a super-rich Wall Street e...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:24am PST
Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus class at Laney College The Labor Heritage/Rockin' Solidarity Chorus will be starting its seventh year at City College of San Francisco and Laney College in Oakland....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 11:14pm PST
Another Opportunity To Halt The Employers’ Offensive Arises New York Transit workers take a step in the right direction but must broaden their demands and link with wider sections of the working class....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 7:07pm PST
‘Workers’ rights are human rights’: Week of action spotlights labor’s right to organize CHICAGO — “Today I am proud to join workers, community and religious leaders in an urgent call for stronger U.S. and international laws that protect workers’ rights on the job,” Illinois AFL-CIO President Margaret Blackshere told a Dec. 8 rally at the city’s historic Haymarket Square. More than 175 union members, activists, religious leaders and community supporters braved a snowstorm to join the observance of International Human Rights Week, Dec. 3-10....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:23pm PST
NY strike union fined $1m a day A judge has imposed a $1m (£570,000) per day fine on New York's main transport union for a strike that has brought city transport to a standstill....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:04pm PST
Germany: Sacked Opel worker appeals to Industrial Court More than a year after the one-week strike by Opel workers at the Bochum factory against massive job cuts and plans by Opel’s parent company, General Motors, to close plants, a fresh appeal has been lodged in the state Industrial Court in the city of Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, against the subsequent sacking of a worker....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 7:05am PST
New York City transit workers defy threats and strike New York City’s 34,000 bus and subway workers, defying threats of fines and imprisonment, walked off the job at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday morning after their union, Transport Workers Union Local 100, rejected the demands of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for sweeping concessions on pensions, health care and working conditions....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 7:04am PST
Workers Take Over Factory, Government Complicit in not Upholding Basic Labor Rights In El Salvador it is common labor practice to lay off workers right before end of year bonuses should be paid out, especially in maquiladoras. In maquilas, it is also common practice to take machinery out in the middle of the night and make the maquila “disappear,” so that workers are not given severance pay or other benefits required by law, all while the Salvadoran government turns a blind eye. This year is no exception. The non-payment of end of year bonuses and the evasion of severance pa...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:42pm PST
New York City transit workers on brink of class confrontation New York City transit workers are on the brink of a historic confrontation in which every section of the working class has the most vital interest....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 6:57am PST
Green Party Window Dressing Undermines Working Class Power Todd Chrétien is a great activist and has offered much in leading the ISO in their anti-war movement and various solidarity and educational efforts. His foray into Green Party politics is a step backwards....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 9:49pm PST
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