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As General Motors contract vote proceeds, UAW prepares deeper concessions at Chrysler Wednesday, October 10, 2007 :Negotiations between the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler LLC continued Tuesday on a new four-year labor agreement. The UAW set an 11 a.m. Wednesday deadline to strike the number three US automaker if no progress towards reaching a deal was achieved. The discussions at Chrysler are proceeding as the UAW bureaucracy is pushing General Motors workers to accept a contract containing enormous concessions, including a two-tier wage system, the setting up of an un...
Posted: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 6:33am PDT
Mexican Miners Strike for Life Originally From New America Media
Sunday, October 7, 2007 : Mexico's Congress found this week that Mexico's largest mining company is to blame for a deadly explosion in a Mexican coal pit last year. Miners in Cananea hope the ruling will help them get dangerous mine dust cleared from their work sites, writes NAM Associate Editor David Bacon....
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2007 8:24am PDT
No Borders Camp FAQ A FAQ with more information about the upcoming No Borders Camp from November 5-11, 2007, in Calexico/Mexicali....
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2007 7:13pm PDT
That Damned Marx No matter what they say, the bourgeois cannot escape the fact that Marx's ideas still hold water after all these years. His analysis of the capitalist system, its laws and contradictions are as relevant today as they were 150 years ago. The serious journals of capitalism confirm this....
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2007 10:38am PDT
Early GM contract vote shows widespread opposition to UAW sellout Saturday, October 6, 2007 :Voting at United Auto Workers union locals this week showed widespread opposition to the agreement the UAW signed with General Motors, ending last week’s two-day strike by 73,000 GM workers. The vote at most union locals has been reported as favoring the contract, but in many the margin has been narrow....
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 9:45am PDT
Two-tier wage in UAW-GM contract means drastic pay cuts for US workers Friday, October 5, 2007 :Within four years, up to one third of unionized General Motors workers will be working at half the current pay scale, with sharply reduced medical benefits and without a company-paid pension plan if the tentative contract agreed to by the United Auto Workers union (UAW) is ratified. Such will be the impact of the two-tier wage structure contained in the contract, according to auto industry analysts cited in press reports this week....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:37am PDT
Worry and anger as autoworkers study pact Friday, October 5, 2007 : Many autoworkers, back after their strike against GM, are worried or angry about concessions the company insisted on in the new contract. United Auto Workers leaders, representing plants across the country, approved the tentative contract on Sept. 28 and union President Ron Gettelfinger said he expects membership ratification by Oct.10....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:35am PDT
Organizing, elections focus of Change to Win Friday, October 5, 2007 : CHICAGO — The Change to Win labor federation held its second annual national convention here Sept. 24-25, where it emphasized union organizing campaigns and a drive by its seven member unions to change the makeup of Congress and put a pro-worker person in the White House. The unions that are part of Change to Win are the Carpenters, Laborers, Service Employees, Teamsters, United Farm Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers, and Unite Here....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:33am PDT
Opposition to UAW-GM deal as workers vote on contract Thursday, October 4, 2007 : Workers began voting this week on the agreement reached between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union, which on September 26 ended a two-day strike by 73,000 GM workers, the first national auto strike in three decades....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 7:41am PDT
NLRB Ruling ‘Cuts Voluntary Recognition off at the Knees’ Thursday, October 4, 2007 : The Republican-dominated National Labor Relations Board is at it again. Instead of protecting workers' freedom to join a union, the Bush-appointed members continue to take away workers' rights. In a partisan vote, the board ruled Sept. 28 that even if employers voluntarily recognize a union based on union authorization cards (also known as card-check), anti-union employees can petition for an NLRB decertification election at any time....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 7:38am PDT
NOW Urges House to Maintain Broad Protections Against Employment Discrimination Tuesday, October 2, 2007 :NOW Urges House to Maintain Broad Protections Against Employment Discrimination October 1, 2007 Last week, just before it was slated to go to the House floor for a vote, the civil rights bill known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) was stripped of protections for the transgender community....
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 6:22am PDT
Payroll crisis causes hardship for Los Angeles teachers Tuesday, October 2, 2007 :For several months now, tens of thousands of employees—including teachers, counselors, janitors and other service workers—of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) have been receiving either no paychecks at all or checks in the wrong amount. Many continue to be underpaid and others have been overpaid....
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 6:22am PDT
Strong rank-and-file opposition to UAW sellout evident at local meetings Monday, October 1, 2007 :The response from General Motors workers attending United Auto Workers informational meetings to hear details of the new tentative contract demonstrate the irreconcilable divide between rank-and-file auto workers and the union bureaucracy. On Sunday a WSWS team distributed a statement calling for rejection of the tentative settlement to GM workers in Flint, Michigan and received an enthusiastic reception....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 8:33am PDT
Labor Activists Say U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement Will Be Signed in Blood if Approved Sunday, September 30, 2007 SAN ANTONIO: More than 100 people crammed into a tiny lecture room on the St. Mary’s University campus in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday night, Sept. 27, to hear a slate of speakers discussing the perils of the proposed U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). A cadre of labor, community, religious, environmental and student groups banded together under the banner of “fair trade” to sponsor the forum....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 8:03am PDT
CIW Florida Tour hits the road! 
If it's Fall, it must be time for the CIW's annual "Mini-Tour," a Campaign for Fair Food tradition since 2001....
Posted: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 9:41pm PDT
UAW local presidents ratify historic betrayal of US auto workers Saturday, September 29, 2007 :This article is posted in pdf format. We urge WSWS readers and auto workers to download and distribute it as widely as possible. With the unanimous ratification vote by local presidents in favor of the historic concessions agreement with General Motors, the United Auto Workers bureaucracy is moving toward a quick ratification vote, hoping to steamroller opposition....
Posted: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 8:43am PDT
BTL: Effort to Restore Habeas Corpus Rights to... BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary...
Posted: Sat, Sep 29, 2007 4:30am PDT
Judge OKs minor fine on terror-sponsor Chiquita Thursday, September 27, 2007 : Colombia’s right-wing paramilitaries are terrorists. Washington named them as such in September 2001. But the AUC, as they are known from their Spanish initials, rule the roost in Urabá in northern Colombia. So what should a U.S. corporation have done when much of its annual $4.5 billion income depended upon free rein there? It was a “difficult dilemma,” declared Fernando Aguirre, head of banana giant Chiquita Corp....
Posted: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 7:27am PDT
Autoworkers buoyed by solidarity Thursday, September 27, 2007 : Tentative pact reached after nationwide strike In an unprecedented show of solidarity across the country, labor got behind the nation’s autoworkers as they went out on strike against General Motors last week. It started when 73,000 workers streamed out of their workplaces Sept. 24 at GM plants across the nation, forming picket lines and beginning the first nationwide auto strike in 37 years....
Posted: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 7:23am PDT
Australia: Riot police attack sacked transport workers Thursday, September 27, 2007 : A state Labor government sent riot police to attack and disperse sacked trucking company workers in Sydney on Wednesday. The workers’ only “offence” was to demand their unpaid entitlements from their employer, McArthur Express, which suddenly went into liquidation and shut its doors this week without any notice....
Posted: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 7:22am PDT
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