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imageThe Fight Against Fraud & Corruption at ACOEM, The US Chamber of Commerce & The Collusion
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by Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
Sharon Kramer, a research of fraud and health policy has discovered an national criminal conspiracy to limit liability of the insurance industry from mold. Kramer exposes the US Chamber of Commerce and their organized effort to propagate false information on mold to ACOEM and to judges who are ruling on mold cases. This has caused serious problems for injured workers and members of the public who have been seriously damaged by the mold and also by the cover-up of these crimes....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 9:46pm PDT
imagePhilippine Airlines workers vote to strike
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by Partido ng Manggagawa - Labor Party
The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) held a torch parade tonight as initial results in the strike poll reveal a tremendous vote for yes. Only the ballots of PALEA members in the Metro Manila offices of Philippines Airlines have been counted and show 96% votes of for a strike and a mere 3% voted against. In the last strike vote conducted last December, some 86% voted yes. In yesterday’s voting, 1996 PALEA members in Metro Manila participated out of some 2987 total members....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 6:35pm PDT
videoWisconsin Zombie Walk Against Gov. Walker Demanding "Brains" (video/x-flv 19.7MB) by In Solidarity
Finally the Living Dead Demand Brains URL to Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ZAo8RWFHE&feature=player_embedded...
Posted: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 10:05pm PDT
textU.S. Election 2012: Stewart Alexander Leans Far Left for White House Cabinet Picks by Lynn Lomibao
Labor Candidate Stewart Alexander has announced that he will seek the U.S. Presidential Nomination for the Socialist Party USA, the Peace and Freedom Party- California, and the Green Party USA. Alexander is also seeking support from the Freedom Socialist Party, the Liberty Union Party- Vermont and the support from working people from across the nation....
Posted: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 5:48am PDT
imageEgypt Revolt at the center of wide social chaos
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by n+1
Since the early Second Postwar, our current kept watching over the events pertaining to Mediterranean Sea, its coast countries and mainly Europe and Middle East (concerning Mediterranean Sea in a geopolitical sense). As all ancient and recent geopolitical schemes designate this area as crucial, also the governments and the military staff of the major imperialist countries give the same importance to it. In that area there is the highest concentration of capital per sq km inhabited in the wor...
Posted: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 1:42am PDT
imageLessons to be learned from the Triangle Fire And Workplace Injuries Today
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by Patrice Woeppel
Millions of American workers are sickened by contaminants and diseases yet are not being taken care of by the present healthcare system. Employers kill workers on the job yet get a slap on the hand with no criminal penalties much like the women of the Triangle Fire....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 11:03am PDT
textTsunami and Nuke Plant Blasts is no natural disaster! US Unions Support Same Bankrupt Path by repost
The Tsunami and Nuke Plant Blasts is no natural disaster! It is a crime committed by State, Capital and Submissive Labor Union Leadership! The trade union bureaucracy Rengo in Japan like the building trades leadership in the US are continuing to support more nuclear power plants...
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 8:53am PDT
imageAs Radiation Levels Soar, Japanese Labor Union Says Gov't Wanted Nuke Power for Armament
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by Ruth Stevens
As radiation levels soar in water near the Fukushima nuclear plant, the Japanese government admitted that plant safeguards were insufficient. The Japanese railway workers union Doro Chiba said that both the tsunami devastation and and plant blasts could have been avoided, and that the Japanese government wanted nuclear power for armament. Photo: Doro Chiba...
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 6:17am PDT
textTax cuts by Ted Rudow III, MA
As many as 500,000 protesters marched in London on Saturday to protest Britain’s deepest cuts to public spending since World War II. The protests come after U.K. officials estimated corporate taxes would be reduced even as it tackles a $235 billion deficit and plans to cut more than 300,000 public sector jobs....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2011 12:25pm PDT
textWhat Wisconsin Means for Immigrant Rights by The Politics of Immigration
If many private-sector workers can see through the campaign to turn them against public employees, is it really impossible for native-born workers to see through the similar effort to pit them against foreign-born workers?...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 9:31pm PDT
text100 Years After Triangle Fire, Tragedy in Bangladesh and Anti-Union Bill in Wisconsin High by repost
Democracy Now did a program on the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Fire in New York City...
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2011 8:12am PDT
textPublic Workers’ Struggle Is Our Struggle by Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine
Though it ended in a setback when the Republican majority in the Wisconsin state legislature used legally dubious tactics to ram the bill through anyway, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s plan to strip his state’s public workers of the right to form unions and bargain collectively has engendered nationwide resistance from America’s increasingly embattled working class. Tens of thousands of people from Wisconsin and elsewhere flooded Madison, the state capital, and occupied the capitol buildin...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 1:28pm PDT
textEveryone Has a Stake in US Uncut's Fight by Allison Kilkenny
Exxon, Bank of America, Boeing, Wells Fargo and Citigroup paid no federal taxes last year. Like its successful predecessor UK Uncut, US Uncut insists corporations that benefit from education and roads should pay their fair share and not avoid taxes through tax havens and extortion of states....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 3:51pm PDT
textLet's make the rich richer and the poor poorer – that's the American dream! by Ruthless Criticism
Trouble in the heartland...
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2011 11:10am PDT
textStop all nuclear plants immediately! No dismissal under the pretext of the earthquake! by Doro Chiba International Support Committee
Workers are organizing in Japan to stop all nuclear plants and to protect the many workers who are affected by this catastrophe....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 6:16pm PDT
textU.S. Election 2012- Stewart Alexander: Oil Giants Price Gouge for Record Profits by Lynn Lomibao
Alexander is also proposing that working families receive a federal tax break for each family member traveling more than 20 miles round trip to work; Alexander say “these families should be permitted to receive a tax deduction or a minimum $300 tax credit for their entire annual fuel cost. As President of the United States, I would seek to make this retro-active back to January 1, 2011.”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 11:04am PDT
imagePhilippine Toyota Workers Protest At Toyota On 10th Anniversary
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by Toyota Motors Philippines Workers Association
Toyota Philippines workers commemorated their 10th anniversary of the lockout on 3/16/2011...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 5:01pm PDT
textJPN Rail Union Doro Chiba-Stop all nuclear plants immediately! No dismissal under the pret by Doro Chiba International Support Committee
The militant Japan Railway Workers Union Doro-Chiba announced an appeal to defend Japanese working people and to stop all nuclear plants....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 12:34pm PDT
audioThe Triangle Fire Centennial Commemoration & The Bay Area Connection (audio/mpeg 15.0MB) by Sabrina Jacobs
The Triangle Fire Centennial Commemoration & The Bay Area Connection. Interviews conducted by Steve Zeltzer featuring Eileen Nevitt & Steve Rosen - grandchildren of the Triangle Fire of 1911. Narrated by Sabrina Jacobs KPFA News Reporter and guest/producer of Morning Mix....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 9:05am PDT
imageSan Diego KGTV 10 News Dealt Another Blow Employees Say Union YES
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by RETURN
KGTV Dealt Another Blow Employees Say Union YES CWA Stays Strong In Solidarity...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 8:47pm PDT
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