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textPress Conference Announcement by Kim Propeack
The United Workers Association will be participating in the release of the Day Laborer Report "Their Stolen Sweat"... the first ever in depth report on the day labor industry in Baltimore, produced by our allies Homeless Persons Representation Project and Casa De Maryland. This report uncovers the day labor industry's systematic abuses: poverty wages, off-the-charts safety issues, and ill treatment including gender discrimination....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 2:27pm PST
documentMake it a Union-Friendly Holiday Season for Retail
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by iww.org
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Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 1:05pm PST
textS. KOREA. 12.20/Last Day's Struggle Report by KCTU/RTU-MB
After MSSC (Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective) finished the sit-in strike the fight against exploitation and opression is continuing....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 6:24am PST
textworkers self-organization outside of and against the unions in Paris by posted by Kevin K.
The Experience of the Paris Solidarity Collectives — A new Stage Wildcat No. 71, Autumn 2004, pp. 15–17 Thoughts on the strikes at Pizza Hut, McDonalds and Frog Pub The article was published in the first issue of the new French revue La Question Social — Revue Libertaire de Réflexion et de Combat (The Social Question — Libertarian Journal for Reflection and Struggle). The following is the part of the text dealing with the strikes at Frog Pub, a strike that was less internationally k...
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 4:07pm PST
imageFirst Day of Fare Strike Decends on chicago
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first day of fare strike in chicago against service cuts, job layoffs and fare hikes...
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 12:36am PST
textAttacking Wal-Mart's Supply Chain by Yoshie Furuhashi
Wal-Mart's zeal to "hold the lowest feasible [inventory] level while avoiding the risks of 'stock outs,'" its competitive advantage, is also the weak link in its anti-union empire....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 7:47am PST
textProtest persecution of Italian anarchist Massimo Passamani by G. Pinelli
Italian anarchist, Massimo Passamani is going on trial on December 16 for "multiple aggravated injury" to a fascist city councilor. Here is his statement about the incident:...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 1:50pm PST
videoMillion Worker March in Japan (video/quicktime 28.2MB) by Gino
Million Worker March in Japan in support of hotel workers...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 10:18am PST
textBuilding Bridges Radio - Massacre of Workers in the Phillipines by Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges:Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW....
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 7:42am PST
textBlack Farmers Historic Lawsuit by Dr. Ridgely Abdul Mumin Muhammad
Black Farmers Seek to Resolve Historic Lawsuit...
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2004 11:30am PST
textS. KOREA. 12.6/Last Week's Struggle Report by KCTU/ETU-MB
Migrant workers in S. Korea, now since one year and three weeks in sit-in strike, are always participating the local class struggle....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 8:32am PST
textBreakthrough at 1st Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival by LaborFest
The first Latin American Working Class Film and Video Festival was held in Buenos Aires this past month. Plans are being made to tour it throughout the US and internationally....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 12:32pm PST
textBuilding Bridges Radio - US Representatives Demand Election Irregularities Investigation by Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Reports presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 1:35pm PST
textThe New Unity Partnership: A Manifest Destiny for Labor by JoAnn Wypijewski (repost)
Since unions are supposed to be organizations of workers, we at CounterPunch thought the members might like the opportunity to review a document cobbled up by five union presidents outlining big plans to spend the workers' money, consolidate their unions and revamp institutional labor -- whether by breaking with the AFL-CIO or destroying it and remaking it in the image of this particular gang of five is not entirely clear. Members aren't likely to get this opportunity through any formal union...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 12:15pm PST
textSutter Health Locks Out 7,000 Nurses by RWF (repost)
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Posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2004 11:58am PST
textLoveland, CO - Wal-Mart workers want union by repost
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Posted: Wed, Dec 1, 2004 12:48am PST
textBelmont, OH - Strikers facing multiple charges for blocking vans by sources
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Posted: Tue, Nov 30, 2004 12:16am PST
textS. KOREA. 11.29/Last Week's Struggle Report by KCTU/ETU-MB
Now since exactly 381 days in sit-in strike on Myeong-dong cathedral’s compound, downtown Seoul, migrant workers are always in the first front line of the class struggle....
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2004 10:13pm PST
textAffordable Health Care for All by Ken Frisof, MD
The class divide in health care is not much less visible in America today than it was in pre-war Britain. The public sector in general and all forms of social welfare policy are under the privatizing gun....
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2004 11:38am PST
textFlight Attendants, the Working Day and Labor Solidarity by Seth Sandronsky
Unionized airline workers, a day's labor and workers' unity...
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 12:43pm PST
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