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Job lock-outs plus gentrification equals genocide “To understand what’s going on in Hunters Point you have to do an exhaustive study on gentrification,” says Khalid Muhammad, publisher of the magazine, First Impressions Home Improvement Guide. Muhammad grew up in Bayview Hunters Point and heads his own painting company, First Impressions Painting....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 8:02am PST
Tentative contract a setback for New York City transit workers The tentative settlement announced by Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 President Roger Toussaint Tuesday night represents a significant setback not only for New York City’s 34,000 bus and subway workers who struck the city’s transit system for two-and-a-half days last week, but for the working class as a whole....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:49am PST
Sutter Health Investigated for Abusing Nonprofit Status State Assembly Committee Chair Criticizes Sutter at Hearing on
Hospital and Non Profit Status...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:58pm PST
1/8: No to Concessions March in Detroit "NO TO CONCESSIONS"
March In Detroit January 8, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 9:34pm PST
New York City transit strike was quashed by the unions A group of top union officials in New York City played the key role in bringing about the abrupt end of the New York City transit strike, brokering a deal that leaves 34,000 subway and bus workers exposed to punishing financial penalties and the continued drive by their employer, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), to extract far-reaching concessions....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 10:50pm PST
New York City transit worker speaks: “They’re churning up the next American revolution” On Thursday afternoon, TWU officials showed up on picket lines throughout the city and instructed workers to return to work, without any explanation of what had been accomplished. This generated considerable anger among many workers who had struck for three days and willingly accepted the loss of thousands of dollars in wages under the antiunion Taylor Law....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 10:47pm PST
Jury Awards $172 Million To Over 100,000 Current And Former Wal-Mart Workers Statement by Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com on today’s verdict by a California jury in the class action lawsuit affecting 116,000 current and former Wal-Mart workers over unpaid lunch breaks....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:58pm PST
Wal-Mart must pay $200m to workers denied lunch breaks Wal-Mart, the world's largest retail company, has suffered a potentially ominous legal setback, with a California jury awarding more than $200m (£115m) to thousands of employees who alleged they were illegally and systematically denied lunch-breaks....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:40pm PST
Behind the media onslaught on the transit workers While New York City’s striking transit workers were winning broad sympathy and support from millions of working people this week, the mass media swung into action with a predictably unanimous campaign of hysterical slanders against the strikers....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:35pm PST
The sudden end of the New York transit strike: A preliminary assessment The sudden end of the three-day strike that shut down New York City’s mass transit system has underscored both the enormous class tensions building up in America, the heart of world capitalism, and the deep-going crisis of leadership and perspective in the working class....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:33pm PST
New York Transit Strike Ends "Hold your head high when you report to work."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 12:03pm PST
NYC Strike Hailed As Battle For Nation-Wide Labor Movement By Pension Reform Advocates As the NYC transit workers continue to strike into day three, they continue to push for demands including reform of a pension plan, which labor movement activists view as important to the nation-wide movement. We speak with Frank Emspak, director of Workers Independent News, and Juan Gonzalez....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 9:24am PST
NYC Transit Strike Enters Third Day: Negotiations Resume, Threats to Workers Heat Up New York City’s subway and bus system remains shut down as 33,000 transit workers have entered their third day on strike. On day two of the strike, a state judge threatened to jail union leader Roger Toussaint and two union officials for organizing the citywide strike. As we await the outcome of continuing negotiations, we speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez about the strike....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 9:22am PST
New York City transit workers defiant: “Bloomberg and his friends are the thugs, not us” On the second day of the strike by 34,000 New York City transit workers, they expressed defiance in the face of threats of massive fines, the media campaign to vilifying them and the treachery of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) International leadership. Picket lines have been set up at train and bus depots throughout the five boroughs of the city, in neighborhoods where transit workers live and are well known....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 8:17am PST
New York transit strikers confront escalating attacks 
As the New York City transit strike enters its third day, the authorities have sharply escalated attacks aimed at bludgeoning 34,000 bus and subway workers into submission....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 8:16am PST
12/23/05 KPFA Labor Show "Labor Rights Are Human Rights" The KPFA Labor Collective will be programming a show titled "Labor Rights Are Human Rights"
on Friday December 23, 2005 at 6:30 PM on KPFA FM 94.1. It is also available on the internet...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 3:13pm PST
United Labor Action Can Smash the Taylor Law! Victory to the Transit Workers Strike!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 2:04pm PST
Mayor Bloomberg Condemns New York City Transit Strike, MTA Workers Hold Firm New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg condemns a strike by 33,000 transit workers that has shut down the country's largest public transportation system for the first time in 25 years. We play an excerpt of Bloomberg's press conference, hear New York City commuters and transit workers explaining their reasons for the strike and we speak with Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez who has been closely covering the strike....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:30am PST
New York transit workers set up picket lines: “Today’s strike is for all working people” 
Tens of thousands of New York City transit workers walked off the job Tuesday morning and set up picket lines at bus barns and train yards scattered throughout the city, shutting down operations that move some seven million passengers daily, the largest mass transit system in the US....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:25am PST
The New York transit strike: A new stage in the class struggle The World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party salute the 34,000 transit workers of New York City, whose courage in the face of draconian threats has provided an inspiring example of determination and solidarity to the working class throughout the United States and, indeed, internationally. The strike by transit workers is an event of international significance. Defying massive fines and even the threat of jail, the strike represents a direct challenge to a super-rich Wall Street e...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:24am PST
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