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Turkey: Solidarity call for the "Platform of struggling workers" Militant workers from recent workers' struggles in Turkey, including National Tobacco and Alcohol Monopoly (TEKEL) workers, Istanbul Water and Sewers Department (ISKI) workers, firemen, Sinter metal workers, Esenyurt municipality workers, Marmaray building workers, dustmen, workers from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and workers from the ATV-Sabah News Corporation, have come together and established a workers' group called the Platform of Struggling Work...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2010 3:09pm PDT
Greece: Blood and tears for the proletariat! 
In order to resist the policy of blood and tears which the bourgeoisie inflicts on it, the proletariat has no other possibility than the resumption of the class struggle, starting with the rejection of anti-worker measures by the government and the calls for “national solidarity”, and for sacrifices “to defend the fatherland and democracy”....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2010 8:14am PDT
WNU #1032: Haitians Protest “Emergency Law” Two of the coalition’s most prominent spokespersons are longtime opponents. René Civil is the leader of the militantly pro-Aristide Popular Power Youth (JPP), while former radio commentator and Port-au-Prince mayor Evans Paul (“K-Plim”), a leader of the Democratic Unity Committee (KID), worked to drive Aristide from office in 2004....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2010 8:48am PDT
Memorandums on Alternative Economic Policy The social state, solidarity, sharing and social justice open doors while neoliberal deregulation leads to exploding inequality, generalized insecurity and disappearance of public spirit....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2010 6:51am PDT
Raley's / Nob Hill Supermarkets Busted ! In this morning's newspaper I ran across a very interesting and disturbing article concerning a very large Supermarket Chain operating throughout Northern California....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 11:28am PDT
Ignoring the Grassroots in Latin America Our independent media tend to ignore grassroots struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean until something happens that gets them covered by NPR or the New York Times....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 10:05am PDT
The AFL-CIO's Secret War:Solidarity Or Sabotage with Kim Scipes 
Labor educator and activist Kim Scipes recently gave an interview about his new book "The AFL-CIO's Secret War: Solidarity or Sabotage...
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 3:43am PDT
Labor Day statements from the Philippines 
LABOR URGED TO USE LABOR VOTE TO ADVANCE LABOR AGENDA
May 1 protest demands a stop to layoffs and contractualization....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2010 4:32pm PDT
PEACE & DIGNITY FOR UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE IN ARIZONA 
END FASCISM IN ARIZONA NOW!...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2010 10:17am PDT
Eve of May Day 2010 The Second American Revolution Has Begun April 30, 2010, the eve of May Day, is Victory in Vietnam Day, 35 years ago, when the little people in black pajamas defeated the mightiest death machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, the United States. The American death machine is now poisoning the earth worldwide and can only be stopped by a united workingclass ready to eliminate the profit motive that is the cause of war. That struggle has begun in the US in the form of the fight for public school education as we cannot have gu...
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2010 6:54am PDT
For a Proletarian and Communist May 1st! Workers!
The general conditions of life and work have been deteriorating for years, becoming ever more intolerable...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 7:35am PDT
Labor Leadership covering for the Democrats again They're all linked to Goldman stupid Do they honestly expect us to believe this campaign isn't linked to the Democratic Party Candidate?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2010 8:21pm PDT
AFT Pres Weingarten Taking Money From Waltons -Washinton DC AFT Local 6 VP Saunders 
Washington DC AFT Local 6 VP Nathan A. Saunders charged at a meeting during Labor Notes on April 24, 2010 that the national president of the American Federation of Teachers is taking tens of millions of dollars from the Walton Foundation controlled by the owners of anti-labor Wal-Mart and other anti-labor foundations to privatize education in the United States...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2010 7:40am PDT
WNU #1030: Puerto Rican Students Strike Against Cuts Support for the strikers has come from a number of groups, including the Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico (FMPR) and the All Puerto Rico for Puerto Rico Coalition, which had led the struggle against layoffs of government employees last fall....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 8:19am PDT
Privatization of Courthouse Security Awarded to G4S Wackenhut Draws Criticism Guy James, President of the Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA said " the privatization of courthouse security awarded to G4S Wackenhut shows how the county can save money, however the need for tougher background checks of all private contract guards needs to be addressed at both the federal, state and county levels to ensure the safety of all who may enter these buildings are protected"....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 4:45pm PDT
Homes for the Homeless So why can’t some leaders of the community establish some non-profits that buy old homes and fix them up so that they have smaller rooms to rent—say double the number of rooms and cut the rental costs? Surely a smaller more affordable room is preferable to no home?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 3:36pm PDT
WNU #1029: Honduras Government Settles With Campesinos The OAS “confirmed during its visit to Honduras that…there have been grave human rights violations, including deaths, arbitrary declaration of a state of siege, repression of public demonstrations using disproportionate force, criminalization of social protest, arbitrary arrests of thousands of people, ...arbitrary restrictions on the right to freedom of expression, and grave violations of political rights.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 8:31am PDT
Caregivers at St. Francis in Lynwood Set to Vote Next Week for SEIU-UHW Healthcare workers at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood are ready to vote to keep union, SEIU-UHW, in union elections scheduled for next week (April 21 & 22) - one of more than a dozen and a half scheduled elections....
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 10:57am PDT
Problems with Security at Federal Buildings Continue, GAO Report Finds Guy James, President of the Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA said he agrees with FPS Director Gary Schenkel who said, "While we believe we can effectively secure federal buildings with the current mix of highly trained federal staff and contract guards, the GEO report confirms what he has been saying all along. "Until we address the lack of funding, understaffing problems, certification requirements, and the failure to set a uniformed higher level of training requirements for both fed...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 2:58pm PDT
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