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McDonald’s its corporate headquarters in Chicago on Wednesday in response to a mass protes McDonald’s closed part of its corporate headquarters in Chicago on Wednesday in response to a mass protest planned by workers and activists calling for a hike in the minimum wage and the right to form a union without retaliation....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2014 12:18pm PDT
BookTV: Panel on Finance, 1 hr Participants in the Los Angeles Times Panel on Finance: Anat Admati; Helaine Olen; Nomi Prins...
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2014 5:34am PDT
After Huge Tax Cuts for the Rich, Kansas's Economy is Foundering Things are also getting worse for the neediest people in the state...
Brownback’s official response to the state’s poverty problem was a brief report that advocated fighting poverty by encouraging traditional family structures through eight-hour “pre-marital education” classes for couples wishing to wed, kicking tens of thousands of residents off of food stamps so that they will work harder, and finding mentors for the state’s kids....
Posted: Sun, May 18, 2014 4:17am PDT
Tentative Agreement With SF For 11,000 Union Workers On May 9 Service Employees International Union Local 1021 announced a tentative agreement with the City and County of San Francisco that would significantly improve workers health care costs, wages and other benefits....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2014 5:09pm PDT
Labour groups Wal-Mart is one of only a few major retailers that have refused to sign on to the new safety standards after the Dhaka tragedy. In the fire, in Tazreen Fashion fire, it has killed 112 workers and left hundreds injured. And in Rana Plaza, it killed 1,127 and left more than 600 or 700 injured for lifetime. And in that shareholder meeting, they haven’t even given any condolence for those families. They haven’t felt sad. No word for those....
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2014 3:24pm PDT
May 2, 2014 A Day That Shall Live in Infamy On May 2, 2014, 39 people died in the Odessa House of Trade Unions in a terrible fire set by fascist friends of Democrat Obama and Republican McCain. The argument that the Democrats somehow prevent fascism has been eliminated; they support fascism, the same as the Republicans. In fact, both the Democrats and Republicans proudly announce they have no difference in foreign policy and they both support the Nazi and Confederate flag wavers in Ukraine. These fascists now sit in power in Ukraine...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2014 8:57pm PDT
Arriving at May Day: Lockdowns, Throwdowns, and Direct Action When the Global Climate Convergence announced the Earth Day to May Day series of events and actions, it revealed a gap between daily reality and Hallmark posturing. More than 100 actions—such as the occupation of the DEQ in Portland, Oregon, by Rising Tide—have taken place in dozens of cities as part of the Climate Convergence.
Over the last few days, IWW fellow workers in California have protested the Koch Bros PetCoke Facility in Pittsburg, the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, and Crude by ...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2014 6:29pm PDT
The Politics of Giving a Raise: Oakland Puts the Minimum in Minimum Wage Everybody, it seems, wants to raise the minimum wage. From President Obama giving federal employees a raise to $10.10 an hour, to the Fight for $15, to a number of actual and attempted raises in various cities (the exact numbers falling in between the above two amounts) there seems to have been an outbreak of altruism throughout the country. What is behind all of this?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 11:36pm PDT
Capital in the 21st Century: Thomas Piketty "There is no escaping the fact, however, that social science research on the distribution of wealth was for a long time based on a relatively limited set of firmly established facts together with a wide variety of purely theoretical speculations."...
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 10:36am PDT
Interviews with Jeffrey Smedberg and Diane Rejman Listen to tunein.com/frsc s47254...
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 10:15am PDT
The Future of the Captured State Concerns about state capture are nothing new. Special interests hold undue sway over official decision-makers in many countries, and regulators are always prone to see the world through the eyes of the people whose activities they are supposed to oversee. But the rise of finance in industrialized countries has cast these issues in a new, much harsher light....
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2014 10:46am PDT
Socially responsible Bangladesh has a $20 billion garment industry, said a Washington Post article, “A year after Rana Plaza: What hasn’t changed since the Bangladesh factory collapse.” A study at La Trobe University in Australia found that more than 78 percent of Bangladesh’s export earnings come from the garment industry. The World Bank’s website shows Bangladesh’s 2012 GDP as $115.6 billion, and a huge portion of that comes from the garment industry....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 12:43pm PDT
We Refuse to Accept That Violence Against Us Is Necessary to Our Education We recognize that violence is not always a meeting between bullet and body — or baton and body — a bruising of the flesh, a scarring of skin. Criminalization is a form of violence. It is an expulsion from society, a removal of the protection of “us.” When Chancellor George Blumenthal wrote, in his email to the UCSC campus, that the administration’s decisions to arrest 22 students “were reasoned, balanced, and in support of the entire campus,” he was consciously excluding those students from t...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 10:36am PDT
Rise Up, Shut It Down, San Francisco Is a Union Town! On Tax Day, April 15, SEIU (Service Employees International Union) , Local 1021, rallied at City Hall and marched to Twitter in San Francisco. Protesters demanded the end of huge Big Tech tax giveaways, and the full funding of public services in the city....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2014 2:18pm PDT
Federal Appeals Court Denies SeaWorld's Attempt to Skirt Safety Rules Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute is pleased to report that a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District Of Columbia Circuit on April 11 denied SeaWorld of Florida’s petition for review of the citation issued in August 2010 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). SeaWorld had sought to overturn a May 2012 ruling by Administrative Law Judge Ken Welsch, who sided with OSHA in finding that SeaWorld exposed its orca trainers to recognized hazards w...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2014 11:54am PDT
SF public housing privatization threatens tenants and union workers As recent as January 31, 2014, the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) invited developers and nonprofit organizations to become partners in the scheme to privatize and rehabilitate 3,491 occupied public housing units grouped into eight clusters throughout San Francisco, as part of the RAD privatization project, over a three year period....
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2014 4:44am PDT
Resolution in Support of UAW Strikers and Student Protest Climate at UC University of California Student Association had a meeting and passed a resolution in support of student activists at UC Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2014 2:44pm PDT
UCSC Faculty Letter to EVC Galloway and Chancellor Blumenthal on April 2 Arrests We don't understand why these students were arrested while picketing. Neither do we understand why UCB police with riot gear were brought to our campus. This is a draconian approach to student political actions and labor actions, and represents a dramatic escalation of confrontation on the part of the administration....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 8:30am PDT
In Solidarity with UAW and the UCSC 20 We, as Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A) de UCSC, a student run, student led organization that is committed to the advancement of civil and human rights of the Raza people, strives for the educational, gender, cultural, sexual orientation, economical, political, racial, and social equity of the community; and who supports the struggle of other progressive movements on our campus and in our communities, stand with our fullest solidarity with UAW Local 2865 and the University ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2014 3:51am PDT
Rejecting TTIP, AFL-CIO's Trumka Calls for "Global New Deal" The demonization of anyone who talks about the dangers of concentrated wealth is based on a misreading of both the past and the present. Such talk isn’t un-American; it’s very much in the American tradition. And it’s not at all irrelevant to the modern world. So who will be this generation’s Teddy Roosevelt? (Paul Krugman)...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 4:29am PDT
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