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The Real State of the Union: Few Jobs and Tough Times for America’s Workers Jan. 21—In his State of the Union address Jan. 20, President George W. Bush said “jobs are on the rise” and pledged to address the nation’s job crisis by expanding his tax, trade and economic policies....
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 1:44pm PST
Nationwide Rallies Demand Freedom to Form Unions 
Tens of thousands of union activists and their allies took part in more than 90 events in 64 cities on Dec. 10 to mark International Human Rights Day and boost the union movement’s campaign to restore every worker’s right to a voice on the job....
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 12:45pm PST
Portlanders support California supermarket workers 
Yesterday, a crowd of about 50 rallied at the Safeway at 1100 NE Broadway in Portland to support the 70,000 workers who have been locked out of Southern California supermarkets for insisting on keeping hard-fought health benefits in the face of austerity plans being imposed by the big supermarket chains. See here for previous feature.
Supporters marched into the store, up and down the aisles, chanting "Boycott Safeway!" and demanding fairness for workers and affordable health car...
Posted: Sun, Jan 25, 2004 5:33pm PST
Democrats bow to Bush on budget attacks In another indication of their organic incapacity to offer any alternative to the policies of the Bush administration, Democrats on Capitol Hill dropped their opposition Thursday to a Republican-drafted federal budget that includes a provision depriving up to 8 million workers of the right to overtime pay....
Posted: Sat, Jan 24, 2004 8:27am PST
Kodak axing up to 15,000 : Bush touts pittance for worker training as job cuts mount Two events Wednesday captured the dichotomy between official propaganda about the US economic recovery and the reality confronting American workers. President George W. Bush appeared at campaign-style rallies at community colleges in Ohio and Arizona, touting his minuscule $250 million job retraining initiative. And Kodak Corp. announced the elimination of 20 percent of its workforce, an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 jobs....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 4:12pm PST
Americans respond to State of the Union: What about jobs? George W. Bush delivered the 2004 State of the Union speech to Congress and the American people on Jan. 20, and afterwards many people asked: What Union and world was he talking about?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 4:11pm PST
Log Cabin responds to State of the Union address A culture war is a recipe for defeat...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 9:35am PST
The Ideological State Apparatus Comment on Danny Schecter's email piece recieved today, which I'll look for and post next, and which you may want to read first......
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 1:29pm PST
Dr. King’s vision inspires all working people With the exception of Labor Day, there is no more important celebration of the fight for justice for all working people than Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Some people may only see Dr. King as a civil rights leader, a critical leader in the fight for equality for African Americans. That struggle was monumental – but Dr. King saw it as part of a larger vision....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 11:49am PST
Ann Arbor Borders wins union contract The agreement ends almost a year of negotiations between the Madison Heights chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers, which serves as the workers’ union, and Borders Group....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 1:06pm PST
Paradoxical Upswing: The Growth Puzzle "Productivity is a very important standard of economic power. Productivity measures how much an economy produces per working hour.. A computer does the work. Vast numbers of office jobs have disappeared in the United States.. Will the person disappear like the horse in agriculture?"...
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:46am PST
Hidden payments may shape grocery strike outcome The outcome of the Southern California grocery clerks strike may depend less on a meeting of the minds between employers and employees than on an obscure grocery business practice that has become so pervasive it has sapped the competitive strength of three of the largest grocery chains in America....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:39am PST
U.S. Arrests Iraq's Union Leaders BAGHDAD, IRAQ (12/10/03) -- US occupation forces in Iraq escalated their efforts to paralyze Iraq's new labor unions with a series of arrests this weekend....
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 12:57pm PST
Rank-and-File Movement Wins Election in SEIU Local 36, Incumbents Refuse to Leave Office 
On December 13, members of Local 36 of the 1.6 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest in the AFL-CIO and originator of the national "Justice for Janitors" campaign, elected a new president, secretary-treasurer and 23 Executive Board members. This came in the 18th month of a national SEIU trusteeship over Local 36, which represents over 4,300 janitors, building maintenance workers, technicians and professionals in Philadelphia and its suburbs ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 6:29pm PST
V-Day March on Juarez CODEPINK Joins V-Day in a March on Ciudad Juárez: Since 1993, more than 320 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez, the sister city of El Paso, Texas. Of these deaths, approximately 100 have been sexual-torture killings of young women, ages 12 – 19. Some 450 more women are unaccounted for or missing....
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 10:24am PST
Misleaders’ Strategy Undermines Grocery Strike Victory To UFCW Workers!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 5, 2004 8:24pm PST
The Economics of Empire The globalist project is in crisis. Whether it can make a comeback via a Democratic or Liberal Republican presidency should not be ruled out,
especially since there are influential globalist voices
in the U.S. business community-among them George Soros-
that are voicing opposition to the unilateralist thrust
of the Bush administration.[iv] This, however, is
unlikely, and unilateralism will reign for some time to
come. We must have a healthy respect for U.S. power, but
neither must we o...
Posted: Sat, Jan 3, 2004 5:28pm PST
SPOKANE CARPENTERS GET A RAW DEAL Spokane UBC members have pensions reduced to $11.00/month for a years' work....
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 3:17am PST
A report on the conference of workers councils and trade unions in Iraq A report about recent efforts of self-organization by working people in Iraq...
Posted: Sun, Dec 28, 2003 4:18pm PST
Striking Chinese Auto-Workers Block Roads, Railways 
On 18 & 19 November 2003, about 10,000 auto workers in Xiangfan City, blocked roads and railway lines across the city in a large-scale protest action aimed at pressuring the government to guarantee their rights during the privatization of their company, a process that will entail job losses for many of them. The two-day protest action paralyzed traffic throughout the city and led to a violent confrontation between the workers and the police....
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 12:32pm PST
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