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Wal-Mart's Sweetheart Deal
Wal-Mart may be the most visible offender of good workplace practices—it's the retail giant progressives love to hate, with good reason. Exhibit A: In a recent deal with the government, Wal-Mart agreed to pay a small fine for breaking child labor laws, with the understanding that next time the feds want to investigate, the retailer will be warned ahead of time. Jonathan Tasini says we can't reform the corruption of the corporate landscape overnight, but a Safe Workplace Act would at lea...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:04pm PST
Repressing the Class Struggle
As the employers' president said, capital and labor have long been reconciled among us. He said this while employers forced down wages with the help of politicians, cut pension claims, reduced social benefits and extorted dependent persons by threats of dismissal....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 7:07am PST
New Anti-Capitalist Website: Prole.info
Announcing a new anti-capitalist website:
http://www.prole.info
It has lots of pamphlets in PDF form, as well as a number of online texts.
Check it out....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 12:34am PST
Gijón, Spain: Shipyard workers battle riot police
The shipyard workers of Naval Gijón clashed with riot police for an hour on February 17, 2005, firing homemade rockets and building barricades as part of their ongoing struggle for jobs. The workers were marching towards the city to set up barricades when they were stopped by riot police....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 4:40pm PST
Black History Month
This should have preceded the piece Black History Month/White History Month but for some resason it wasn't posted....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 1:51pm PST
Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay Fine for Violating Child Labor Laws
Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay Fine for Violating Child Labor Laws; Company Signs Settlement Agreement with Labor Department...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 1:07am PST
Labor united against the Bush agenda
Labor was at the heart of an incredible people’s coalition to defeat George Bush and the ultra-right wing of the Republican Party. And labor remains at the heart of keeping that coalition together and fighting back against the Bush agenda....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:56pm PST
Chile’s privatized pensions spell worker hardship
As the Bush administration pushes to privatize Social Security, many people are looking at countries where state-funded pensions have been privatized. One of them is Chile. President Bush lauded Chile’s privatized social security system as a “good example” for the U.S. when he visited Santiago last November to participate in the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 12:49pm PST
Union Counter-Strategy to Closure of Wal-Mart Store to be Revealed at February 11th Toront
Canada (United Food and Commercial Workers Canada), the union representing Wal-Mart workers, will be holding a press conference tomorrow Friday, February 11 at 10:30 a.m. EST regarding the announcement by Wal-Mart Canada of its plans to close a store in Jonquiere, Quebec that was recently unionized....
Posted: Sat, Feb 12, 2005 1:41am PST
Social Security's "Sleeper Issue" : Price Indexing Exposed By Kucinich
Kucinich added that while much attention has been focused on private accounts, price indexing, once understood by both the media and the American people generally, will create such an uproar that it will jeopardize not only the Administration’s plans, but could create great political risk for members supporting the plans....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 9:58pm PST
Workers Unite in Response to Wal-Mart's Actions in Jonquiere
Wal-Mart Runs Away from Workers and Runs Over Workers' Rights; Workers Unite in Response to Wal-Mart's Actions in Jonquiere...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 11:21pm PST
Resistance to Unemployment in France
The unemployed movement in France, which lead to widespread national actions and demonstrations against poverty, contributed much to the debate in France and elsewhere about how to build resistance to unemployment. But it went further than this....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:58pm PST
Gijón, Spain: Shipyard workers in struggle
The shipyard workers of Naval Gijón continued their year-long struggle against privatization today, February 10, with more burning barricades. There was also a small scuffle with the riot police....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 7:18pm PST
Canadian Wal-Mart Seeking Union to Close
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Wednesday it will close a Canadian store whose workers are on the verge of becoming the first ever to win a union contract from the world's biggest retailer....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 8:58pm PST
Jobs and wages picture remains bleak for millions in US
The employment and general economic situation remained dismal for millions of American workers in January, amid signs that the so-called recovery may be slowing. While the official unemployment rate declined to 5.2 percent, payrolls increased by only 146,000, considerably less than predicted. Manufacturing jobs fell by 25,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, released February 4, also revised downward the number of jobs created in December, from 157,000 to 133,000....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 6:31am PST
Building Bridges Radio - Social Insecurity plus The Next Pres. of Chile?
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 min radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS LINK BELOW...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 8:26am PST
Chavez: Capitalism must be transcended
Hands Off Venezuela Campaign...
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 4:40pm PST
Emily Tang Fired by the Metropolitan Hotel
To-day, Metropolitan Hotel Workers Committee member, Emily Tang, was fired by the Metropolitan Hotel. She had been suspended for weeks for violating a shameless policy that bans workers from making public statements about the Hotel deemed negative by management....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 4:50pm PST
Gijón, Spain: Shipyard workers battle riot police
One police officer suffered injuries to an arm and a leg in confrontations with the shipard workers of Naval Gijón, who have been engaged in a prolonged battle against privatization and for work contracts....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 1:22pm PST
Abuses Against Workers Taint U.S. Meat and Poultry
(Chicago, January 25, 2005)—Workers in the U.S. meat and poultry industry endure unnecessarily hazardous work conditions, and the companies employing them often use illegal tactics to crush union organizing efforts, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 8:28pm PST