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Nurse Alliance Of SEIU Healthcare Mobilizing RNs And Medical Supplies To Gulf Coast Areas In Advance Of Hurricane Gustav Monday, September 1, 2008 : WASHINGTON, DC – Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Executive Vice President and Nurse Alliance Chair Dian Palmer, RN, issued the following statement regarding the work being done by SEIU nurses and leaders across the country in anticipation of the health impacts of Hurricane Gustav:...
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 7:43am PDT
Labor Organizing and Independent Media are Not Crimes 
On August 31st, members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were accompanying their fellow worker, Erik Forman, to his first day back on the job at Starbucks in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Erik was recently fired for labor organizing, although that was not the official explanation given by Starbucks.
Police from Plymouth, a town outside of Bloomington, prevented Erik's supporters from getting off the light-rail and entering the mall. Erik was eventually allowed...
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 2:43am PDT
IWW Denied Access to Mall of America by Riot Police, 8/31/08: Video 
Starbucks workers at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, unionized with the Industrial Workers of the World about a month ago. One worker, Erik Forman, was wrongly fired due to his union organizing. With pressure from the IWW, Starbucks reinstated him and he was set to return to the job today. Riot police at the Mall of America turned back the IWW, but Erik was still able to make it to the job. Jake Bell (pictured below) was interviewed about the day's events and the future pl...
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 12:57am PDT
Vicious government repression against immigrant workers on the rise The recent raids in IOWA and Mississippi are a giant step backwards for all workers. They are part of the employers’ divide and rule strategy aimed at taking back from all of us the gains that where made during the great mass movements of the 1930’s....
Posted: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 12:36pm PDT
Labor Groups Challenge Retail Giant Wal-Mart on Pressuring Employees to Vote Against Obama Wednesday, August 27, 2008 :Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is being accused of violating federal election laws by urging its employees to vote against Senator Barack Obama in the November election. Last month the Wall Street Journal revealed Wal-Mart has been warning its managers that an Obama victory would lead to unionization at Wal-Mart stores. A coalition of prominent labor groups recently filed a complaint against Wal-Mart with the Federal Elections Commission....
Posted: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 8:35am PDT
350 immigrant workers arrested in raid on Mississippi factory Wednesday, August 27, 2008 :On Monday, in the latest in a series of large-scale, brutal operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested some 350 immigrant workers employed by Howard Industries in Laurel, Mississippi. The company, which employs more than 3,000 people in Jones County, was forced to close its manufacturing facility for the day....
Posted: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 7:30am PDT
Madrid plane crash: Pilot's union warned months before that cut-backs placing passengers at risk Saturday, August 23, 2008 :After the worst Spanish air tragedy in 25 years on Wednesday, accident investigators have begun examining the wreckage of the plane that crashed at Madrids Barajas airport, killing 153 passengers. Just 19 passengers have survived the crash, 5 of whom are said to be in a critical condition, with horrific injuries....
Posted: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 12:13pm PDT
Stern SEIU Corruption Crisis Spills Into Political Races In S. California 
Andy Stern's hand picked "leader" of a 160,000 member local in California may have been illegally funneling union dues into political races in Los Angeles. Tyrone Freeman, Stern's appointed president of the Home Care Workers Local has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his wife and relatives and is now being charged of raising dues to make illegal contributions for electioneering in LA races....
Posted: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 12:34am PDT
UFWA Leaders "Begs Gov. On Their Knees While They Kill Workers In The Fields" 
While farmworkers are dying due to inadequate health and safety protection because of cutbacks at Ca-OSHA, the UFWA leadership if begging the governor to do something. This is the same governor who has eliminated all doctors at Ca-OSHA...
Posted: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 11:36am PDT
SEIU Stern's Operative Tyrone Freeman steps down as head of CA 160,000 ULTCW SEIU chapter 
SEIU Pres Andy Stern's handpicked corrupt political operative Tyrone Freeman has been forced to resign as head of the the SEIU ULTCW 160,000 member local. Stern has also been involved in a 6 year cover-up of charges of corruption by Freeman in an Atlanta local that Stern put him in charge of. The next question is when members will start demanding that the Stern gang also resign for their scams, nepotism and destruction of the work of the SEIU members....
Posted: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 6:45am PDT
Church of Scientology linked to family breakups, child labour, exploitation Scientology's latest public relations stunt has drawn criticism, as former members speak out about the organization's destructive policies. Multiple reports indicate that children are being exploited, denied a proper education, and separated from their families by Scientology organizations....
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 7:26am PDT
How the Teamsters won the UPS strike and Ralph Nader Hear Deepa Kumar as she spoke on her book "Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike" on July 10, 2008 in Sacramento, CA.
Hear Ralph Nader's press conference on Aug. 1, 2008 in Sacramento, CA....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2008 11:53am PDT
CA Injured Workers Get Support From Nader And Gonzlez At CCWMD Press Conference On 8/1/2008, the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day organized a speak out and press conference on and about the conditions of injured workers and their families in California. Two of the speakers who joined the press conference were Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez. They spoke of the destruction of OSHA and the systemic crisis for injured workers in the United States including the introduction of new technology in the workplace and environment without proper oversight....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 8:15am PDT
William Greider Raps Predatory Usury Schemes 
How did the country get into this unholy financial mess? Think usury! Acclaimed author William Greider points the finger at banks, and people of great wealth, “taking advantage of poor people by lending them money on terms that are sure to fail.” He blames others, too, like “The Fed,” under the reign of Alan Greenspan, the U.S. Congress, and Wall Street. Mr. Greider charges that these parties worked to “castrate” the watchdogs....
Posted: Mon, Aug 4, 2008 5:05am PDT
US telecommunications giant Verizon demands job and benefit cuts Contracts covering 65,000 workers at the US telecommunications giant Verizon expire Saturday at midnight. Verizon executives are demanding that current and retired union workers accept massive health and pension concessions as well as greater flexibility to cut jobs and move workers....
Posted: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 7:50am PDT
Wobblies Welcome Mall of America Starbucks Baristas to the Union! IWW Delivers Cake to MOA Starbucks Workers
Thursday, July 31, 2008 : Saturday June 26 was like any other busy Saturday at the Mall of America 1 Starbucks. A barista had called in sick during the morning shift, another had walked out in disgust the weekend prior. A Manager from another store was covering the shift of a barista who had been fired for union activity two weeks before....
Posted: Thu, Jul 31, 2008 7:40am PDT
The Big Squeeze: Steven Greenhouse on Tough Times for the American Worker Tuesday, July 29, 2008 :A new book by New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse examines how much of the American workforce is working more but earning less. Wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled. Greenhouse joins us to talk about The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 8:09am PDT
Entre el reformismo y la rebeldía La jornada de censura a Alan García Pérez realizada a través de un paro nacional de incalculable magnitud no puede ser ignorada. El pueblo en todas las regiones del sur, centro y oriente se volcó a las calles en un noventa por ciento marcando un hito histórico de lo que vendrá a ser el poder popular de la democracia participativa; en las regiones del norte y Lima la contundencia de la paralización se hizo sentir fuertemente, sin embargo, es necesario mencionarlo, más como protesta que como ce...
Posted: Sun, Jul 27, 2008 12:37pm PDT
UFW Demands EPA Ban on Endosulfan, Please help support farmworkers, consumers, residents and the ecosystem all together at once by sending a letter to demand that the EPA ban the application of known toxin endosulfan pesticide from farms....
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 12:35pm PDT
Workers must search our past to find a solution to the housing crisis. The lessons of the eviction struggles of the thirties show us how we can fight the present housing crisis....
Posted: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 10:17pm PDT
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