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“We want to make changes with a scalpel, not a chain saw.”
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
Building Bridges Radio: Representative John Conyers
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
For Social Security, Stability or Volatility?
The phony Social Security crisis...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 4:36am PST
IWW Founding Convention Now On-line
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
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
IWW UNION ORGANIZER FIRED
Wild Oats Natural Markets fires union organizer over bag of bruised fruit!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 1:28pm 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
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
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
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
Building Bridges Radio: 1.Workers' Advice Center;2.Revitalizing the Labor Movement
Building Bridges Radio: 1.Workers' Advice Center;2.Revitalizing the Labor Movement...
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 10:10pm PST
Press Conference Announcement
The United Workers Association will be participating in the release
of the Day Laborer Report "Their Stolen Sweat"... the first ever in
depth report on the day labor industry in Baltimore, produced by our
allies Homeless Persons Representation Project and Casa De Maryland.
This report uncovers the day labor industry's systematic abuses:
poverty wages, off-the-charts safety issues, and ill treatment
including gender discrimination....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 2:27pm PST
S. KOREA. 12.20/Last Day's Struggle Report
After MSSC (Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective) finished the sit-in strike the fight against exploitation and opression is continuing....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 6:24am PST
workers self-organization outside of and against the unions in Paris
The Experience of the Paris Solidarity Collectives — A new Stage
Wildcat No. 71, Autumn 2004, pp. 15–17
Thoughts on the strikes at Pizza Hut, McDonalds and Frog Pub
The article was published in the first issue of the new French revue La Question Social — Revue Libertaire de Réflexion et de Combat (The Social Question — Libertarian Journal for Reflection and Struggle). The following is the part of the text dealing with the strikes at Frog Pub, a strike that was less internationally k...
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 4:07pm PST
First Day of Fare Strike Decends on chicago
first day of fare strike in chicago against service cuts, job layoffs and fare hikes...
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 12:36am PST
Attacking Wal-Mart's Supply Chain
Wal-Mart's zeal to "hold the lowest feasible [inventory] level while avoiding the risks of 'stock outs,'" its competitive advantage, is also the weak link in its anti-union empire....
Posted: Wed, Dec 15, 2004 7:47am PST
Protest persecution of Italian anarchist Massimo Passamani
Italian anarchist, Massimo Passamani is going on trial on December 16 for "multiple aggravated injury" to a fascist city councilor. Here is his statement about the incident:...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 1:50pm PST