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Maryland makes Wal-Mart pay Health care drive expands to 30 more states...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:19am PST
Two missing in fire at West Virginia coal mine Less than three weeks after the Sago Mine disaster claimed the lives of 12 coal miners, two more men were trapped in a West Virginia mine Thursday night after a fire on a conveyor belt spread poisonous carbon monoxide throughout the mine. At the time of this writing, rescuers have not been able to reach the two miners, identified as Ellery Hatfield and Donald Bragg, who were separated from co-workers as they made the two-hour journey to escape the smoke-filled mine....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:26am PST
European-wide dock workers strike against port deregulation A demonstration of up to 10,000 dockers in Strasbourg, France on January 16 culminated in a violent clash with the police. The port workers were marching on the European Parliament to protest against the Port Package II bill that will deregulate ports in the European Union and lead to a severe attack on jobs, working conditions and living standards....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:05pm PST
"Airline Workers United" Forms to Fight Concessions Industry-Wide Things seem to keep going from bad to worse for workers at Northwest Airlines (NWA). While striking mechanics and cleaners face a bitter winter after more than four months on the picket line, pilots, flight attendants, gate/ramp agents, baggage handlers, customer service reps, and other union workers face a fresh round of givebacks against the backdrop of a bankruptcy court....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:07pm PST
Germany: the closure of Nuremberg’s AEG works and the role of the unions In the middle of December, the management of the Swedish electrical company Electrolux announced the closure of a factory steeped in history—the AEG works in Nuremberg. Workers responded to the announcement with strikes and protest actions. There are 1,750 jobs directly threatened by the closure of the factory, with many more jobs endangered in ancillary production processes....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:03pm PST
Safety reports document deadly conditions at West Virginia mine Newly released reports from state and federal safety inspections of the Sago Mine prior to the January 2 explosion that killed twelve West Virginia coal miners detail a rash of potentially deadly safety violations and a pattern of negligence, if not criminal disregard, by company officials....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:59pm PST
UFW Exposé Lacks Historical Perspective One of the most difficult positions a newspaper can find itself in is that of defender, protector, or the lone public voice of a movement that has come under attack....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 2:15pm PST
Support Locked Out Meredosia Boilermakers Local 484 Celanese Corporation in June sought to cut the wages of their workers in Meredosia, Illinois by 33%
and when the workers refused they locked them out in June 1995. They need the support of all
working people....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:19am PST
Rank And file Auto Workers Take A Stand Rank and File Auto Workers and Supporters Rally at Detroit Auto Show...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 7:55am PST
US media sheds crocodile tears for West Virginia miners The US media coverage of the West Virginia mine disaster has been a spectacle of ignorance, condescension and chasing higher circulation. Unburdened with any serious knowledge of the lives of coal miners or their history, scores of highly paid, highly coiffed journalists from the cable and network news channels and print media produced little but the most superficial explanations of the tragedy and its background....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:27pm PST
The Terrorist Worker The New York subway strike of 2005 can be summed up by a phrase, “black workers are Evil Doers.”...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 1:12pm PST
IBM to freeze pension plan in 2008 In the latest attack on retiree benefits for US workers, technology giant International Business Machines (IBM) announced Thursday, January 5 that it will stop contributing to its traditional pension plan in 2008....
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:03am PST
Clarification on Working Class Independence and that of Batay Ouvriye Being attacked by the enemy is an excellent thing. But only to the extent we are able to transform the attack, as a negative element, into a positive aspect in the general interest of the working class... What we are undergoing is a moment in the struggle of the masses, the workers, the working class. We need to be able to correctly handle these attacks. We need to carry out practices that allow us to maximize the realization of the working class' interests facing our enemies....
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 8:18am PST
NYC Transit Strike: Union Power vs. Class Collaboration Strikers Defy Taylor Law...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 9:52pm PST
Juan Gonzalez Hails the New York City Transit Strike as Success; Union Fought Off City Att Last month, 33,000 New York City transit workers went on strike, shutting down the country's largest public transportation system for the first time in 25 years. Pension plan demands were a central issue in the negotiations. Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez discusses the results of the negotiations and how they can impact workers nationwide....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:37am PST
Argentina: Solidarity with Bauen hotel workers The Bauen is a four star hotel that was abandoned to bankruptcy by its owners, and has been recovered and is now operated by a cooperative of its workers. It is also the informal living room/meeting place of the movement in Argentina, and as such has been targeted by right wing politicians in the city legislature of Buenos Aires for eviction....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 2:14pm PST
Were the Deaths of the 12 Coal Miners Preventable? A Look At the Sago Mine Last year, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration filed 200 alleged violations against the Sago mine. 46 citations were issued in the past three months - 18 of them were considered "serious and substantial." We speak with investigative reporter Ken Ward of the Charleston Gazette (WV) who closely monitors the mining industry....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 8:11am PST
A CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY A European strike is organized dying 16 -17 of January 2006 by maritime and dockworkers. The strike will be held in 29 ports of 10 countries throughout Europe. The strikers are against the new European direction, regarding the free sea trade. Greek marine transport workers, along with the solidarity of the antiauthoritarian movement, ship builders union of Perama and Greek Wobblies, will participate in the forthcoming strike by closing the ports in Piraeus, Patra & Thessaloniki....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 1:14am PST
Harry Magdoff 1913-2006 Marxist Economist Harry Magdoff, co-editor of Monthly Review since 1969 and one of the world's leading political economists, died on New Year's Day, 2006 at his home in Vermont. He kept the journal to the socialist principles and theoretical and pedagogical standards of its late founders, Paul M. Sweezy, who died in February 2004, and Leo Huberman....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 9:12pm PST
US: low-fare Independence Air to shut down US air carrier Independence Air announced Monday that it will shut down all operations on Thursday, January 6, just 19 months after it was launched. The low-cost airline had filed for bankruptcy protection last November 7, and its parent company FLYi had been looking for a major investor or buyer since then, without success....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:25pm PST
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