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Levi Strauss stands accused
Two ex-employees of Levi Strauss are suing the clothing firm, alleging they were sacked for refusing to cover up fraudulent accounting practices at the jeans maker....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 6:07am PDT
Tears of Inspiration from Argentina
"The chorus is "We are the future and the present, to resist and to occupy". It goes on with more inspiring lyrics. (Somewhere between 150 and 200 factories are now being occupied and run by the workers, the form ranges from occupations like Zanon or Brukman, to occupations that then ask for a judicial nod and become collectives."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 9:01pm PDT
Stonemountain and Daughter Fabrics Workers Unionize
We, the majority of Employees at
Stonemountain and Daughter Fabrics has come together as a union!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2003 12:25am PST
William Mandel, American Dissident
"If you think that I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit there in violation of the United States Constitution, if you think I will cooperate with you in any manner whatsoever, you are insane!"
--From William Mandel’s 1960 testimony before the HUAC...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2003 7:46am PST
Italy: FdCA on the anti-war movement
The way to radicalize the movement lies in the realization of the idea that there is a strict connection between capitalism and militarism, between the fight for peace and the fight against capitalism....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2003 8:18pm PST
Union buster gets Iraq Port Contract
The pigs are at the trough and Bush has handed a private contract for managing the port of Umm Qasr to Stevedoring Services of America (SSA), a nasty union-busting firm....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2003 7:38pm PST
Enron 'bribed tax officials'
A crucial report into the collapse of disgraced energy giant Enron has discovered the firm's executives bribed tax officials....
Posted: Thu, Feb 13, 2003 9:11am PST
BTL: U.S. Labor Movement Organizes Against White House War Plan...
Interview with Gene Bruskin, US Labor Against the War, conducted by Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Feb 7, 2003 9:33am PST
Is There an IT Skills Shortage?
Is There an IT Skills Shortage?
The popular media appears to be deliberately misleading the public into thinking that there is such a shortage....
Posted: Sat, Feb 1, 2003 5:58pm PST
BOLIVIA: FIGHT ISOLATION TO DEFEAT THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS PLANS!
! STOP THE REPRESSION!
! POPULAR TRIBUNALS TO JUDGE THE ASSASSINES OF MINERS AND COCALEROS!
FOR NATIONAL COORDINATION OF STRUGGLE!
LOR-CI/ BARRICADA ROJA (YOUTH GROUP)...
Posted: Thu, Jan 23, 2003 8:30am PST
Venezuela: Oil Workers will take street actions asking for their right to work
Venezuelan Oil Workers request that the workings at the contractors companies are started again. Text: Maria Fernanda Pineda
Translation: Trastor (from Panorama Newspaper - Maracaibo)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 4:59am PST
Trade Unionists Launch ‘U.S. Labor Against the War’
Article about launching of new group, U.S. Labor Against the War...
Posted: Sun, Jan 12, 2003 4:12pm PST
((i)) Argentina: FIRST CACEROLAZOS!
Live, thru internet radio, the "cacerolazos" of december 19th...
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 3:30pm PST
SEIU OKs vaccine plan: But says program has problems (audio/mpeg 1.6MB)
(3:33)The White House is planning to begin vaccinating military and health care personnel against smallpox in January. The Service Employees International Union. won't oppose the program, but says it needs improvements....
Posted: Thu, Dec 12, 2002 2:11pm PST
Workers Struggle in Ozarow
Workers Struggle in Ozarow, Poland...
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2002 3:38pm PST
About class struggle in Iraq
We have published several articles describing the insurrections of March 1991 in Iraq, which were written as and when information was able to reach us. Shortly after the end of the Gulf War, we also published in French the text "Prolétariat contre nationalisme" (Communisme No.36) in which, from a distance of just over a year, we tried to draw the lessons from these struggles....
Posted: Fri, Dec 6, 2002 12:10am PST
Whole Foods Union Organizers Fired (video/x-pn-realvideo 33.8MB)
Debbie Rasmussen and Julie Thayer, two members of the Madison, Wisconsin Whole Foods workers union organizing committee, were fired last week for giving away/drinking a spoiled drink....
Posted: Fri, Nov 29, 2002 12:20pm PST
Paramilitaries raid house of Salvadoran Union Leader!
PARAMILITARIES RAID HOUSE OF SALVADORAN UNION LEADER
Latest Incident in Escalating Series of Paramilitary Violence and Threats...
Posted: Wed, Nov 20, 2002 3:35pm PST
Worker Abuses at Lufthansa
"Lufthansa Unbalanced" Web Site Exposes Conflict Between Socially Responsible Image and Treatment of U.S. Workforce, says Airline Catering Union...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 12:29pm PST
Situation in El Salvador Escalates!
SALVADORAN ELECTRICITY WORKERS JOIN HEALTHCARE UNIONS ON STRIKE AGAINST PRIVATIZATION
INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AND SOLIDARITY SUPPORT NEEDED!
Planning meeting this Sunday, Nov 17th!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2002 10:54pm PST