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US jobless rate hits 14-year high Data released yesterday by the US Labor Department showed unemployment increased last month from 6.1 to 6.5 percent, the highest rate recorded since 1994. The number of officially unemployed increased by 603,000 to a total of 10.1 million, the largest number since 1983....
Posted: Sun, Nov 9, 2008 7:15pm PST
84 Percent of Union Members Say Economy Tops Their Concerns Thursday, November 6, 2008 : SMWIA member Rachelle Pablo, below, and USW member Shane Hanley are among the hundreds of thousands of union members who got out the vote this election....
Posted: Thu, Nov 6, 2008 7:01am PST
TILMA Expands on NAFTA TILMA has been referred to as a Bill of Rights for corporations. Much like NAFTA, it is designed to ensure corporate profits and further advance continental integration. The power of the people and government is being transferred to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who serve their corporate masters....
Posted: Sat, Nov 1, 2008 2:56pm PDT
Remembering Studs Terkel Saturday, November 1, 2008 : What bitter irony. Studs Terkel, who gave voice to working people throughout his life, passed away yesterday, just days before a potentially historic presidential election. Should Sen. Barack Obama win on Tuesday, his victory would be a sweet vindication for Terkel, whose affinity for America's workers would be reflected in the policies of an Obama administration....
Posted: Sat, Nov 1, 2008 1:33pm PDT
Obama and the Unions When Obama wins the presidency next week, a good deal of kudos should go to the labor unions that helped out, both financially and by countless worker volunteer hours of phone calls and door knocking. Some unions are bigger Obama-backers than others— SEIU’s website is a virtual Obama billboard. Since millions of dollars in workers’ dues money went into getting him elected, it’s urgent to have an understanding of his labor policy, less we find ourselves forgotten and assaulted like we were u...
Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 7:53pm PDT
Bill Fletcher Speaks on Labor at Activist San Diego 
Bill Fletcher, who recently co-wrote the book "Solidarity Divided," spoke to Activist San Diego October 24 on the crisis facing organized labor and how America's union movement can save itself from annihilation at the hands of the capitalist class only by abandoning Samuel Gompers' job-centered model, embracing "social justice unionism" and building joint efforts and programs with other progressive groups....
Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 5:56pm PDT
Injured Workers' RICO Claim to Proceed Against Employer and Insurance Company In a landmark decision of immense national significance, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a RICO claim brought by injured workers against their employer, insurance carrier and employer medical expert could proceed. Several injured workers brought the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)...
Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 3:55pm PDT
Filipino Workers hold March to protest against the GFMD As the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) opened today in Manila, at least 5000 workers from the Philippines and other countries in every region of the world came together in one of the broadest labor mobilizations ever organized in the entire history of the global trade union movement....
Posted: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 8:05pm PDT
Filipino Workers hold March to protest against the GFMD As the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) opened today in Manila, at least 5000 workers from the Philippines and other countries in every region of the world came together in one of the broadest labor mobilizations ever organized in the entire history of the global trade union movement....
Posted: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 4:08pm PDT
The Greater Error: Voting for the Lesser Evil As the presidential election nears, we can be assured of being bombarded — probably more than ever — with a hackneyed argument aimed at prodding increasingly resistant members of the working class to trudge to their local election booths and cast yet another vote for “the lesser evil.” After all, if the working class collectively refuses to vote due to universal repulsion at the array of candidates, then the charade that the U.S. in fact represents a genuine democracy collapses. But as workin...
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 8:15pm PDT
Puerto Rican Labor Struggle: Teachers Vote Against Joining SEIU Monday, October 27, 2008 :It's a major victory for the forty-two-year-old Teachers Federation of Puerto Rico, or FMPR. It was Puerto Rico's largest union, representing over 40,000 teachers. But earlier this year, after many months of trying to negotiate with the governor, the FMPR was decertified over its refusal to comply with a ban on strikes by public employees....
Posted: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 8:11am PDT
Why Don't Barack Obama and John McCain Talk About the Working Class? Monday, October 27, 2008 :With the economy the number one issue on the campaign trail, major party candidates John McCain and Barack Obama discuss their tax plans, jobs and the financial bailout on the stump. But are they really addressing the needs of the working class? A new study from the Center for the Study of Working Class Life suggests that neither McCain nor Obama have adequately spoken to the needs of one-fifth of the population -- the 60 million Americans who are barely surviving in...
Posted: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 8:11am PDT
Mass strike in Italy against Berlusconi government October 17 saw a general strike against the attacks being waged on working people by the government of Silvio Berlusconi....
Posted: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 7:23am PDT
US: Improve Workers’ Rights in Trade Accords 
Washington, DC, October 22, 2008) Labor provisions in US free trade accords are weak and are not effectively enforced, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Major reforms are needed. The US approach to labor rights in its free trade agreements, beginning with NAFTA, has failed. The government needs to make dramatic changes in its strategy....
Posted: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 8:37am PDT
US: Screen Actors leadership calls for federal mediator Monday, October 20, 2008 :The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) held its annual national membership meeting at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. After four and a half months of SAG members working without a contract and in the face of the intransigence of the studios, represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the SAG leadership proposed ......
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 10:22pm PDT
Detroit residents speak on economic crisis and US elections Sunday, October 19, 2008 :Reporters for the World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party supporters spent Saturday morning at Eastern Market in Detroit speaking to residents about the economic crisis and the US presidential election, now just over two weeks away....
Posted: Sun, Oct 19, 2008 10:07pm PDT
WNU #963: Teacher Struggles in Puerto Rico, Mexico Several large operations by federal and local Mexican police from Oct. 7 to Oct. 9 broke up protests by striking teachers and their supporters in Morelos state, south of Mexico City, leaving dozens of people detained or injured. Morelos teachers have been on strike since Aug. 13....
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 2:22pm PDT
V.P. Candidate Alexander: U.S. Economy is Beyond Recession Socialist Vice Presidential Candidate Stewart A. Alexander says the measures that are being taken by the Fed, in the midst of this growing economic crisis is an indication that the U.S. economy has now passed the stage of a recession and is now in the early stage of a depression. “It will take more than printing truck loads money and bailing out the capitalists to prevent the U.S. and global economy from slipping into a deeper depression.”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 9:26am PDT
STOP THE WALL STREET FALSE "NATIONALIZATION" TAX MONEY BAILOUT OF FAILED BANKS! The working people must fight the new capitalist Wall Street scheme to rip off even more of their tax money and bail out Wall Street further with U.S. government purchase of preferred stocks without voting rights of failed Wall Street banks....
Posted: Sun, Oct 12, 2008 9:48pm PDT
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