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textWhen Cops Are More Unionized Than Almost All Other Workers. . . . by Yoshie Furuhashi
What would send all the dead trade unionists spinning in their graves? The fact that cops are more unionized than almost all other groups of workers in the United States today....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 7:48pm PST
imageGijón, Spain: Shipyard workers battle riot police
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by @
One police officer suffered injuries to an arm and a leg in confrontations with the shipard workers of Naval Gijón, who have been engaged in a prolonged battle against privatization and for work contracts....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 1:22pm PST
textCall for worshops - BASTARD conference by BASTARD
This is a call for workshops for the BASTARD conference on anarchist theory....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 1:10pm PST
textAbuses Against Workers Taint U.S. Meat and Poultry by Human Rights Watch
(Chicago, January 25, 2005)—Workers in the U.S. meat and poultry industry endure unnecessarily hazardous work conditions, and the companies employing them often use illegal tactics to crush union organizing efforts, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 8:28pm PST
textNorthern California Grocery Contract/Another Setback For Labor by Richard Mellor
The tentative agreement between the grocery chains and the UFCW leadership will increase the sense of helplessness that many workers feel and strengthen their distrust of their unions...
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 12:38pm PST
textTotal Flexibility by Franz Schandl
Self-determination means market determination.. Flexibility has nothing to do with individual sovereignty. Rather it means being completely delivered up to external demands. The flexibility of the person is nothing but the dictation of the market....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 8:33am PST
textUFCW wants to sell bad contract by aaron
News is in of a tentative agreement between the UFCW and the grocers....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 12:11am PST
textBuilding Bridges Radio - Bring the Troops Home - Cong Owens plus Dr. King on Vietnam by Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 6:58pm PST
textOhio: IWW Organizer Fired by CincyIWW
It was 6 months January 10, 2005 that I will have been fired from Wild Oats under what many believe to be questionable circumstances. Not only has Wild Oats ignored the unions attempt for the exact reason for my termination, they have also ignored the hundreds of Wild Oats shoppers who have demanded an answer....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:48am PST
textWal-Mart workers in New Castle set to vote on union by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (repost)
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Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:42am PST
textGrocery Workers Vow to Push for Better Contract by BDP
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Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:36am PST
textUpdate on the Fresh Organics / Real Foods Labor Dispute by Kim Rohrbach
Following a formal complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board, Fresh Organics will respond to unfair labor practices charges before an NLRB Administrative Law Judge....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 12:50am PST
imagePicket To Stop OneSource From Abusing Janitors
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by Z
The janitors have reported discrimination, harassment, and unsafe working conditions. OneSource has failed to address janitor's concerns and continues to pile impossible - and unsafe - amounts of work on janitors around the city, including the Transamerica Pyramid....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:08pm PST
text“We want to make changes with a scalpel, not a chain saw.” by richard Mellor
The silent dissent in the labor movement must cease. The average member cannot be expected to speak out against the disastrous policies of the trade union leadership when so many seasoned activists refuse to challenge the status quo....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 7:51pm PST
textSocial Security and Modern Society by Friedhelm Hengsbach
Social security is not a mere burden but a benefit of productivity. Countries with comfortable social security systems are internationally very competi-tive. Social secuirty in a modern society does not lessen economic growth and employment but supports them....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 6:58am PST
textThe 1937 San Francisco Hotel Strike by Flying Picket Historical Society
A good history of the 1937 Hotel Strikes and the rememberence of a fighting working class....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 2:15am PST
textBuilding Bridges Radio: Representative John Conyers by Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Communiyt and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK....
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 2:06pm PST
documentEmergency Albertson's Action on Thursday 12/20
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by Central Labor Council Alameda County
We need your support by joining us for an Emergency Day of Action this Thursday between 4:00-5:00 PM at the Albertson’s store at 3250 Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland. UFCW grocery workers will deliver their message to Safeway and Albertson’s: “Don’t Take Away Our Health Care!"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 5:38pm PST
textFor Social Security, Stability or Volatility? by Seth Sandronsky
The phony Social Security crisis...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 4:36am PST
imageIWW Founding Convention Now On-line
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by Adam the Red
In honor of the 100th year of the IWW, the Marxist Internet Archive (MIA) has put together the papers of the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in a special section of the MIA....
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 3:16pm PST
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