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we need a new clerical union at UC, NACE-CWA Employee email lists were ablaze last week with talk of a new labor organization for UC’s 15,000 clericals, the New Alliance of Clerical Employees-CWA. ( http://www.nace-cwa.org ).
A statewide group of rank-and-file clericals invited UPTE’s national union, CWA, to help them organize in response to AFSCME’s campaign to replace the current clerical bargaining representative CUE, and CUE’s subsequent move to affiliate with the Teamsters. AFSCME is expected to submit a showing of employee suppor...
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 4:27pm PDT
Challenges and Successes in Organizing Office Workers, an Interview with Prof. Linda Blum (audio/mpeg 11.1MB) Administrative Professionals Week is now just a time for bosses to take their secretaries to lunch, but at one time it was an occasion for Raises Not Roses marches and rallies. Kate Raphael talks about that more radical time, and some of the gains that have been made through clerical worker organizing over the years, with Linda Blum, author of Between Feminism and Labor: the Significance of the Movement for Comparable Worth, and professor of sociology at Northeastern University. Audio, 24:0...
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2010 7:32pm PDT
THE TRUTH COMES OUT: NUHW, Rosselli, others ordered to pay more than $1.5 mil A federal jury announced its verdict in the federal lawsuit by SEIU-UHW against Sal Rosselli and other defendants at NUHW – finding them liable for their scheme to sabotage the union and use the resources of SEIU-UHW members to start their own rival organization. The evidence in the trial showed that NUHW officials deliberately lied to members, violated members’ democratic rights, and intentionally put members’ futures at risk when they were in power at SEIU-UHW....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 4:44pm PDT
UW Protests, Threatens to Dump Nike for Honduran Abuses 
In the wake of the Honduran coup, 2 Nike subcontractors abrubtly closed their doors, locking out 1700 workers without their final paychecks, severance, or any of the few benefits they earned as workers. This precipated Thursday's protest at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where Nike was already on probation as a supplier to the school. (photo: Megan McCormick/The Badger Herald)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 7:44am PDT
Blasted in a West Virginia Mine: First by Explosion, Then by Lies When hundreds of miners are trapped in pitch black waters 5 kilometers below the surface in China — the U.S. media has a tsk-tsk tone that suggests how little human life is valued “in the Orient,” and that (subliminally) reminds the viewers that this supposed cheapness of life in China has sucked the manufacturing heart out of the United States....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 2:30am PDT
Montcoal, WV; Massey Energy Cited 1,300 Times For Safety Violations Following the recent cave in of a coal mine in Montcoal, WV evidence shows that despite over 1,300 safey violations Massey CEO Don Blankenship failed to act as needed to provide workers with a safe work environment. Once again profit placed over human lives by short-sighted CEO of Massey. The current body count of 25 miners with four still missing shows neglecting safety can have tragic consequences....
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 2:56pm PDT
Prescription For Bioterrorism: The Criminal Conspiracy to Terrorize Pfizer’s Scientists 
A Federal trial of injured biotech worker Becky McClain in her suit against Pfizer. Inc has exposed the conspiracy by the company to terrorize their scientists and by a OSHA agency that acted as an accomplice with the company....
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2010 9:06pm PDT
Photos From The Protest 
Essen / Germany
Proteste der Theaterbeschaeftigten gegen Kuerzungen im Kulturetat....
Posted: Sat, Mar 20, 2010 2:57am PDT
Descifrando la campaña mediática de Nicaragua Sugar Estates-Grupo Pellas 
ANAIRC sigue siendo la piedra en el zapato...
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 5:25pm PDT
Mexico: Federal Police Attack Five More Electricians' Blockades, One Electrician Shot In October 2009, President Calderon unilaterally fired 44,000 Luz y Fuerza del Centro workers. Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) declared March 16 the beginning of a National Strike. Striking workers from the Union blockading their former workplaces in Ecatepec county were attacked by 100 federal police...
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 9:18pm PDT
Major National Public Health And Safety Issues Raised In 3/15 Federal Trial Of Pfizer Inc. 
On March 15, 2010, a US Federal trial will be held in Hartford, CT. The largest drug company in the world Pfizer Inc. will go on trial for retaliating and firing an injured molecular biologist Becky McClain. The company refused to provide proper health and safety protection for Becky and other Pfizer worker and then harassed and fired her for making health and safety complaints within the company and to OSHA....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 11:50am PST
US House Chair Henry Waxman Ignores Appeals From Injured Downey Workers-Cover-up Continues 
Henry Waxman, Chair of the House Committee of Energy and Commerce has refused to respond to a letter from the injured Downey Movie and Kaiser workers at the former US military toxic dump site that was privatized as a "Brownfield" site. Injured workers have requested that Waxman push the Energy Department pay for a NIOSH epidemiological study but Waxman is playing hide and seek. He refuses even to meet the workers but has called hearings on steroid use and Toyota. How about having a hearing a...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 11:43am PST
Call to transmit the Festival of Resistance 
As a way to articulate and unite the struggles, we call the free radio movement and free national and international media to broadcast and rebroadcast the festival and to spread this iniciative, to paste the link in the transmission in your pages and to produce capsules and reports on the 9 struggles of resistance and autonomy which are supported with the festival....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2010 9:09pm PST
Exxon's Collateral Damaged Oil corporations like ExxonMobil have control over what, when, where and how they will execute their operations? There are many oil spills happening every day, and oil companies turn their heads with no responsibility to environment or humanity....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 8:29am PST
Apoyo Estudiantil a Exigencias para Sindicatos Autónomos y Cese de Abusos Laborales 
Lunes, 1o de marzo, 2010
CLAREMONT, California - En un gesto inesperado de solidaridad con empleadxs universitarixs, el movimiento estudiantil participó en una acción laboral en el campus de Pomona College, una institución privada y parte del consorcio de colegios de Claremont al borde oriental del condado de Los Ángeles. Más de un centenar de estudiantes se incorporaron a la multitud de trabajadores de servicio alimenticio y de otros sectores, e inclusive algunos profesores para entregar un...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 3:49am PST
Students Support Worker Demands for Independent Unions and End to Abuses 
Monday, March 1, 2010
CLAREMONT, California - The student movement made an unexpected move in solidarity with university employees in a large-scale action at Pomona College, a private institution and part of the Claremont consortium of colleges at the eastern edge of Los Angeles County. Well over a hundred students joined with numerous employees of the three campus dining commons, other Pomona employees, and a few faculty members to deliver a petition to Pomona President Oxtoby....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 3:47am PST
SEIU Organizer Assaults Union Supporter Now here's a union you want to hand over your hard earned money to......
Posted: Sat, Feb 27, 2010 6:42am PST
Movie Workers and Toxicologist Visit Tesla Motors LA Dealership: Reasons Behind The Downey 
On Feb 11, 2010 IATSE Local 44 movie workers and UCLA trained toxicologist Dr. Jack Thrasher went to the LA Tesla Motors Inc. dealership to discuss with them their plans to build a "green" electric car assembly plant on the contaminated toxic dump site in Downey, California...
Posted: Mon, Feb 22, 2010 4:42pm PST
U.S., French, & UK Imperialist Hands off Niger! 
In Niger human rights organizations, trade unions, and opposition parties including the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism are all supporting the coup. 10,000 people rallied in support on February 20th.
Meanwhile the US, France, UK, UN, and African Union all have been quick to condemn the coup. Tandja did the bidding of U.S. imperialism, meanwhile, according to the UN Development Program’s 2006 Human Development Index, Niger is the poorest country in the world. Sixty percent of the p...
Posted: Sun, Feb 21, 2010 6:14pm PST
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