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Unions Reach Tentative Agreements on New Contracts With GE Monday, June 18, 2007 : The 11 unions representing workers at General Electric Co. reached tentative agreements yesterday on new four-year contracts after four weeks of intense bargaining. The agreements are subject to review by union negotiating committees and ratification by union members by June 28....
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 7:01pm PDT
SEIU UHW Splits With SEIU Pres Stern On Sweetheart Contracts "Stern Reprimand" 
SEIU UHW which represents 140,000 healthcare workers in California is engaged in a struggle
against the policies of Andy Stern, President of the national SEIU over sweetheart contracts....
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 3:56pm PDT
Starbucks Settles Case with Barista Over Anti-Union Termination Saturday, June 16, 2007 : Starbucks to Pay Undisclosed Amount and Offer Reinstatement Chicago, IL (06/14/2007)- Starbucks has agreed to reinstate Chicago barista Gloria Sykes and pay her a confidential amount to settle charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board earlier this year. Starbucks fired Sykes after she told her store manager that employees would reach out to the IWW Starbucks Workers Union (SWU) if management did not address age discrimination and work schedule issues....
Posted: Sat, Jun 16, 2007 8:06am PDT
US: Education no escape from stagnant wages Friday, June 15, 2007 :As with the rest of the American workforce, the income of college graduates has not kept pace with the growth of productivity, according to a paper delivered June 5 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economists Peter Temin and Frank Levy.* Their findings refute the claim that social inequality is the result of an increased demand for educated workers, itself the product of technological change....
Posted: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 11:18pm PDT
Guinea: Thousands of Girls Face Abuse as Domestic Workers Conakry, June 15, 2007) – Thousands of girls employed as domestic workers in Guinea face labor exploitation and physical abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today, on the eve of the International Day of the African Child. The new Guinean government, which took office in March, should fulfill its pledge to improve living conditions for youths, including child domestic workers....
Posted: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 8:04am PDT
General strike hits South Africa Friday, June 15, 2007 : More than half a million workers marched through the towns and cities of South Africa on June 13. They were amongst the hundreds of thousands of workers taking one-day solidarity strike action in support of the all-out strike of public service workers that had entered its 13th day. They included municipal workers, taxi and bus drivers, electricity and cleaning workers, administrative staff and officials from border posts and airports....
Posted: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 6:42am PDT
Italys Communists grapple with political realities Thursday, June 14, 2007 :RIMINI, Italy The recent general elections here resulted in a defeat for the ultra-right Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister, and his supporting parties. But the government, now run by a coalition of center-left parties and headed by Prime Minister Prodi, won by the barest of margins. Italy is a divided country....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 3:44pm PDT
Russian Dockworkers Union Leader Brutally Stabbed, Beaten Thursday, June 14, 2007 : Mikhail Chesalin Mikhail Chesalin, chairman of the Russian dockworkers union, was stabbed and beaten unconscious last week outside his office in Kaliningrad. Chesalin, considered one of the brightest lights in Russia's independent labor movement, has regained consciousness but remains in intensive care with possible brain trauma....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 3:38pm PDT
'How Many More Workers Have to Die?' Thursday, June 14, 2007 : The war may have been "cold" but the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant that made atomic bombs for America's nuclear arsenal was "hot" with radiation that now, years after it was shut down, has killed and is killing former workers who have developed a wide range of cancers, according to the United Steelworkers ( USW )....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 3:38pm PDT
High Court Ruling on Union Dues Will Not Affect Union Practices Thursday, June 14, 2007 : The High Court today ruled on a complex case involving union dues for public-sector unions?and its decision will have very limited practical effect and will not affect any existing union practices....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 3:37pm PDT
Space Shuttle Workers on Strike Thursday, June 14, 2007 : Members of the Machinists (IAM) who work on space shuttle missions at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., walked off the job today after contract negotiations broke down over the cost of health care and wages....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 3:36pm PDT
Mexico 2006: Buscando el Cambio Social 
En el aniversario del desalojo de l@s maestr@s de Oaxaca, publico por primera vez un audiodocumental con las voces de luchadores para el cambio social en Oaxaca, Chiapas, y en todo Mexico. En estos dias, hay muchissimas gentes buscando maneras cumplir el cambio, unos politicalmente, unos con accion directo, unos con guerra guerillera. Aqui se encuentra una documental de 58 minutes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 10:51am PDT
Keith Rosenthal: Workers Score a Victory at Harvard Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :O n Wednesday, June 6, the 265 security guards in SEUI Local 615 overwhelmingly approved their first-ever negotiated contract with Harvard University and AlliedBarton, a private security firm contracted by Harvard, which employs the guards....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:33pm PDT
'Congress Must Defeat Korea Free Trade Deal' Wednesday, June 13, 2007 : Korean workers joined with a bipartisan group of members of Congress today to make it clear that unless the Bush administration reworks the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement to include basic protections for workers in both countries, the deal will not pass this Congress. As Rep. Mike Michaud (D-Maine) told a Capitol Hill press conference:...
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:31pm PDT
Democratic House Moves Fast on Anti-Worker Supreme Court Ruling Wednesday, June 13, 2007 : Last month when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Lilly Ledbetter — who was paid less than male workers doing the same job — had waited too long to file a pay discrimination suit, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a dissenting opinion in which she said Congress should act to ensure workers' sufficient access to redress for pay discrimination Yesterday, the U.S....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Ledbetter Testifies in House Hearing; Committee Calls for Title VII Action Wednesday, June 13, 2007 : Lilly Ledbetter, the plaintiff in a wage discrimination case against the Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company, spoke yesterday before the House Committee on Education and Labor, highlighting the difficulties employees face when reporting incidents of discrimination in the workplace. The Supreme Court r......
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:26pm PDT
Iraqi Workers Strike to Keep Their Oil Wednesday, June 13, 2007 : Hassan Juma'a outside Basra Photojournalist and trade unionist David Bacon sends this report on the Iraqi oil workers' strike....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:19am PDT
AARP, Business Roundtable And SEIU Deliver Endorsed Health It Principles To Congress Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : “Divided We Fail” Campaign Seeks to Reduce Medical Errors by Setting Firm Timeline for Adoption of Health IT WASHINGTON, DC – AARP, Business Roundtable and SEIU, which together represent more than 50 million Americans, today took another groundbreaking step for their “Divided We Fail” group by jointly delivering endorsed principles for health information technology (IT) legislation to Congress....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:17am PDT
Tomato Workers Need Your Support in Burger King Campaign Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) asks us to post this call to action for workers who pick tomatoes for the nation?s fast-food industry....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 7:09pm PDT
Workers, Student Groups Announce Back-to-School Boycott of American Eagle Outfitters Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : NEW YORK, June 12 — U.S. and Canadian university students joined apparel and service workers today to announce the beginning of a Back-to-School boycott of American Eagle Outfitters near the retailer’s Union Square store. Today’s rally coincided with American Eagle’s annual shareholder meeting in midtown Manhattan and featured hundreds of activists pledging not to purchase clothing from the chain store until it enforces its Code of Conduct at the company’s Canadian di...
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 2:26pm PDT
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