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US auto workers denounce UAW betrayal at Ford Tuesday, November 6, 2007 :Ford workers reacted with disgust and anger Monday as they learned further details about the four-year labor agreement that the United Auto Workers union reached with Ford Motor Company over the weekend. The new contract covers 54,000 workers employed by the second largest US automaker. The concessions go even further than the historic rollbacks granted to General Motors and Chrysler....
Posted: Tue, Nov 6, 2007 7:30am PST
Vote "no" on UAW betrayal at Ford! Elect rank-and-file committees for contract fight! Monday, November 5, 2007 :The United Auto Workers union and Ford Motor Co. signed a tentative contract November 3 covering nearly 60,000 hourly workers in plants across the US. The following statement is being distributed to Ford workers. It is also posted in pdf format. We urge WSWS readers and auto workers to download and distribute it as widely as possible....
Posted: Mon, Nov 5, 2007 7:17am PST
Determined, angry mood among US film and television writers Monday, November 5, 2007 :As of the posting of this article, no deal has been reached between representatives of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) that would avert a strike by film and television writers scheduled to begin Monday. Unless an agreement is hashed out with the aid of federal mediators late Sunday, pickets will go up at company headquarters and production facilities in New York City and Los Angeles starting at 9 ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 5, 2007 7:17am PST
US film and television writers will walk out Monday Saturday, November 3, 2007 :The decision by members of the Writers Guild of America to strike on Monday sets the stage for a major confrontation between writers and the giant media conglomerates. Leaders of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW, with some 7,600 members) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE, 3,800 members) announced Friday that film and television writers would walk off the job as of Monday morning....
Posted: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 9:23am PDT
BK Halloween Action - ATX (video/quicktime 14.6MB) Commercial for the cause. Short clip of Student/Farmworker Alliance - ATX protest at an Austin, TX Burger King franchise. SFA is an ally organization of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, who are pressuring Burger King to respect human rights in their tomato supply chain....
Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 9:44am PDT
Broader issues facing US film and television writers Friday, November 2, 2007 :Negotiators for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke off talks Wednesday, six hours before the expiry of their three-year contract. The two sides, despite the presence of a federal mediator, remain far apart on the key issues of DVD residuals and pay for films and television shows transmitted over the Internet....
Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 8:50am PDT
Bitter outcome of UAW contract betrayal: Chrysler to cut 12,000 more jobs Friday, November 2, 2007 :This statement is also available in pdf format to download and distribute. Chrysler announced Thursday it will cut 12,000 jobs in the US and Canada over the next year as part of the massive restructuring plan of the company’s new owners, the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP. The announcement, just five days after Chrysler workers narrowly approved a new four-year labor agreement, exposes the lies of the United Auto Workers union, which rammed throug...
Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 8:47am PDT
Protests and a Strike Precede Barrick Gold’s 3rd quarter shareholders meeting 
On one side of the world in Chile, over a thousand people went into the streets with costumes, music, and dancing to protest the proposed Pascua Lama gold project – a multi-billion dollar project that Barrick has been boasting since the late 90’s – which threatens the fertile Huasco Valley. Meanwhile, almost the same number of strikers at Barrick’s Bulyanhulu mine in Tanzania refused to work after negotiations with Barrick management brokedown over salaries, working conditions, medical care a...
Posted: Wed, Oct 31, 2007 11:27pm PDT
Gap, Mattel, Speedo, Wal-Mart Products Linked to Child and Sweatshop Labor in China and India Tuesday, October 30, 2007 :
Charles Kernaghan executive director of the National Labor Committee, discusses recent scandals linking children's products to sweatshop labor. National Labor Committee recently found forced labor of up to 90 hours a week and pay as low as 46 cents an hour in Chinese factories linked to Mateel....
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 7:50am PDT
Student/Farmworker Alliance Days of Action + National Mob. on Miami! 
Today, in the wake of the Yum Brands and McDonald’s agreements, we stand on the threshold of a more modern, more humane agricultural industry in Florida. Yet, facing this historic opportunity, Burger King seems to have chosen business as usual over progress, continued exploitation over justice. It is time for Burger King to seize the moment and stand with Florida's tomato pickers in our fight for fundamental human rights in the fields. This march is the next step in moving Burger King out of ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 9:53am PDT
The Forgotten Victims of the California Wild Fires: Undocumented Migrant Workers Monday, October 29, 2007 :
Andrea Guerrero of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium says law enforcement deported evacuees and checked identifications of evacuees fleeing fires....
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 8:07am PDT
UAW pushes through Chrysler betrayal in face of strong rank-and-file opposition Monday, October 29, 2007 :The United Auto Workers union announced Saturday that Chrysler workers had narrowly ratified the new four-year contract with the number three US auto maker. The union reported that the agreement, which covers 45,000 US Chrysler workers and 78,000 retirees and surviving spouses, was approved by 56 percent of production workers and 51 percent of skilled workers who cast ballots....
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 7:59am PDT
Strong opposition at final Chrysler plant voting on UAW contract Saturday, October 27, 2007 :Workers at Chrysler’s Belvidere, Illinois assembly plant began voting on Friday on the contract reached by the United Auto Workers union and the number three US automaker. There was widespread opposition to the sellout agreement by the 3,800 members of UAW Local 1268, which was the last major union local to vote on the contract covering more than 45,000 Chrysler workers in the US....
Posted: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 9:44am PDT
Rumblings in the depths of the UAW They still prevail but the contract rejections at Chrysler shook the UAW bureaucracy and the employers and are a glimpse of what is to come....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 10:51am PDT
BP Fined $50 Million in Texas Refinery Blast That Killed 15 Friday, October 26, 2007 : Oil giant BP today agreed to pay $50 million in fines to settle a criminal case over a 2005 explosion that killed 15 workers and injured 170 at a refinery in Texas City, Texas. That brings to more than $70 million in federal fines BP has paid related to the blast. Today's agreement, announced by the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, follows a $21.3 million fine levied in September 2005 by the Occupational Safety Health and Safety Administra...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 7:56am PDT
How the UAW pushed through its sellout at Chrysler Friday, October 26, 2007 :With the votes at four Detroit area auto plants Wednesday it appears the contract negotiated between the United Auto Workers and Chrysler LLC will be narrowly approved. Although the union has not released actual totals, press accounts report 55 percent of those voting have approved the deal. According to the Wall Street Journal, only an “overwhelming” rejection by workers at the last large local left to vote—the 3,800-member Local 1268 at the assembly plant in Belvid...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 7:50am PDT
Forgotten Fire Victims Need Help! Relief efforts continue for farm workers, day laborers, service employees, and impoverished families directly impacted by the San Diego County firestorm. Supplies, cash, and volunteers still greatly needed!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 9:29pm PDT
The Myth of “Co-Management” in Venezuela: Reflections on Alcasa and Invepal * With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses....
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Dozen Democrats Join Senate Vote to Approve Anti-Worker Judge for Appeals Court Thursday, October 25, 2007 : A dozen Democratic senators and one Independent paved the way for Mississippi Judge Leslie Southwick - whose judicial record is marked with one anti-worker, pro-business decision after another - to take a lifetime seat on the of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit....
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 7:47am PDT
Join FLOC in Fighting for Justice for Tobacco Workers Thursday, October 25, 2007 : North Carolina farm worker Urbano Ramirez died in 2001 of heat stroke after he received no medical help. At least four more workers have died from heat stroke since then. Thousands of workers who harvest tobacco each year contract green tobacco sickness caused by exposure to harmful chemicals in tobacco leaves....
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 7:46am PDT
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