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Building Bridges Radio: Fighting Wal-Mart in N.Y.C & Quebec
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 7:09pm PST
News and Review article on the return of the IWW (Wobblies)
The Sacramento News and Review weekly wrote a cover piece on the return of the IWW as a force within labour in the world. It does history a bit, but more into the realm of all the organizing that is being done at this moment, a must read. Photos are available if you go to the link on the site....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 5:26pm PST
Dollar is Falling; Class Struggle Must Begin
We are not even half way into the first month of this watershed year and the dollar is already falling, thanks to over $155 billion having been spent to steal Iraq's oil instead of solving social problems at home....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 8:37pm PST
IWW UNION ORGANIZER FIRED
Wild Oats Natural Markets fires union organizer over bag of bruised fruit!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 1:28pm PST
Blogger sacked for sounding off
A bookseller has become the first blogger in Britain to be sacked from his job because he kept an online diary in which he occasionally mentioned bad days at work and satirised his "sandal-wearing" boss....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 9:26am PST
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Living Wage Law Challenges
Skates had refused to pay the living wage while the case was litigated, and instead chose to place the unpaid wages in an escrow account that must now be paid to the employees....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:28pm PST
Restaurant workers speak out on KPFA's morning show
Tune into KPFA at 94.1 FM (or at www.kpfa.org) from 8:08-8:28am, Pacific time, Wednesday and Friday or listen to archives of the whole weeks worth of shows on KPFA's website....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 5:26pm PST
Let's depose the one-eyed king: It's time we reclaim labor's vision
The SEIU and its New Unity Partnership allies have created a firestorm of controversy over their proposals for restructuring the labor movement. But these "reformers" have mistaken symptoms for causes, and their prescriptions will do nothing more than intensify business unionism's strangle-hold on organized labor. The alternative? Let's start talking about the organizing model that characterized labor's most successful period, and let's recognize that the foundation for an organizin...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 1:07pm PST
Following complaint of IWW* Labor Board Charges Starbucks with Multiple ULPs
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Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 12:59pm PST
1/4/05 Iraqi Trade Union Leader Murdered
Iraqi trade union leader Hadi Salih, International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions, was tortured and killed in his home in Baghdad Tuesday night [1/4/05]--but a Nexis search reveals not a word has yet appeared in the U.S. Press....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:33am PST
9th Circuit Court Decision: Employers Can Require Women's Makeup
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on December 28th, 2004 that a female employee fired for refusing to wear makeup cannot sue her employer for sex discrimination....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 12:42pm PST
Backstabbed: The History of a Photograph
Don't hang out with Neo-Cons. There is a reason why they're called "Cons."...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 10:04am PST
FAA Misleading the Public and its Employees, says Nat'l Association of Air Traffic Special
In what was scheduled as a public relations visit to the Altoona, Pa. and Islip, N.Y. Flight Service Stations (AFSS), FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, with Vice President of Flight Services Jim Washington, and Assistant Administrator for Human Resource Management Ventris Gibson, declared the FAA would create a Preferred Placement Program and the Age Exemption Program for AFSS employees...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 8:12pm PST
Bankruptcy Court Ruling Sends United Back to Table
The bankruptcy court rejection of the United Airlines contract agreement with its pilots demonstrates that UAL management needs to take a different approach in its efforts to restore the troubled airline to solvency, officials of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said today....
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 8:08pm PST
Hotel Workers United Update: DC, LA, SF
With the holidays over and the 2nd Inauguration of George W. Bush fast approaching, D.C.'s union hotel workers will be stepping up the pressure on hotel management to get a fair citywide hotel contract. Meanwhile, negotiations continue in San Francisco...The boycott of the 9 hotels in Los Angeles has put significant pressure on the Employers' Council as a growing number of customers are honoring the boycott of nine upscale LA hotels....
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 3:46pm PST
Building Bridges Radio: Wal-Mart's Template & Attorney General Gonzales?
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report brings you this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 5:12am PST
Labor TV Show OnThe Coming War At SF Chron&Crisis In AFL-CIO&Future Of Labor Now On Web
Labor On The Job is now streaming it's show The Coming War At SF Chron & Crisis In AFL-CIO & Future Of Labor...
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 5:18pm PST
UFCW screws supermarket workers at the behest of Safeway shareholders in Sacramento area
Grocery workers would take hit
Proposed deal with Safeway has higher medical expenses....
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 3:24pm PST
United Airlines Flight Attendants Authorize Strike
United Airlines Flight Attendants Authorize Strike; AFA Warns of CHAOS if Contract is Rejected...
Posted: Fri, Dec 31, 2004 12:53am PST
Direct Action in the Airline Industry
the interesting part of the article is the discussion of the strike actions of the flight attendant...
Posted: Wed, Dec 29, 2004 2:09pm PST