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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...

Administrative Professionals Week is now just a time for bosses to take their secretaries to lunch, but at one time it was an occasion for Raises Not Roses marches and rallies. Kate Raphael talks about that more radical time, and some of the gains that have been made through clerical worker organizing over the years, with Linda Blum, author of Between Feminism and Labor: the Significance of the Movement for Comparable Worth, and professor of sociology at Northeastern University. Audio, 24:0...

In the wake of the Honduran coup, 2 Nike subcontractors abrubtly closed their doors, locking out 1700 workers without their final paychecks, severance, or any of the few benefits they earned as workers. This precipated Thursday's protest at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where Nike was already on probation as a supplier to the school. (photo: Megan McCormick/The Badger Herald)...

Following the recent cave in of a coal mine in Montcoal, WV evidence shows that despite over 1,300 safey violations Massey CEO Don Blankenship failed to act as needed to provide workers with a safe work environment. Once again profit placed over human lives by short-sighted CEO of Massey. The current body count of 25 miners with four still missing shows neglecting safety can have tragic consequences....

Essen / Germany Proteste der Theaterbeschaeftigten gegen Kuerzungen im Kulturetat....

In October 2009, President Calderon unilaterally fired 44,000 Luz y Fuerza del Centro workers. Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) declared March 16 the beginning of a National Strike. Striking workers from the Union blockading their former workplaces in Ecatepec county were attacked by 100 federal police...

Henry Waxman, Chair of the House Committee of Energy and Commerce has refused to respond to a letter from the injured Downey Movie and Kaiser workers at the former US military toxic dump site that was privatized as a "Brownfield" site. Injured workers have requested that Waxman push the Energy Department pay for a NIOSH epidemiological study but Waxman is playing hide and seek. He refuses even to meet the workers but has called hearings on steroid use and Toyota. How about having a hearing a...

NOTA DE PRENSA...

Lunes, 1o de marzo, 2010 CLAREMONT, California - En un gesto inesperado de solidaridad con empleadxs universitarixs, el movimiento estudiantil participó en una acción laboral en el campus de Pomona College, una institución privada y parte del consorcio de colegios de Claremont al borde oriental del condado de Los Ángeles. Más de un centenar de estudiantes se incorporaron a la multitud de trabajadores de servicio alimenticio y de otros sectores, e inclusive algunos profesores para entregar un...

Now here's a union you want to hand over your hard earned money to......