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  • Cindy Sheehan to provoke the Second American Revolution July 4th, 2006-Hunger Strike at White House!
    30 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Gold Star Families for Peace will announce a historic hunger strike against the war in Iraq. At 5pm, they will sit down in front of the White House to eat their last meal and hold a press conference before beginning the fast at the same location in the morning of July 4 at 10am.
    “We’ve marched, held vigils, lobbied Congress, camped out at Bush’s ranch. We’ve even gone to jail. Now it’s time to do more,” says peace mom Cindy Sheehan. “While others are celebrating July 4th with barbeques, (…)

  • Hunger Strikers at University of Miami
    21 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Workers at the University of Miami need our help. They are struggling against oppressive management and getting no support from one of Bill Cllinton’s followers - Donna Shala, President of the school.
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  • Unions pile pressure on Villepin with threat of a national strike action
    20 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Lichfield
    After a weekend of mass student demonstrations and scattered street battles, the French government faces the prospect of a prolonged social crisis unless it suspends its new youth jobs rules.
    Smelling political blood, trade union leaders will consider calls for a national strike unless the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, withdraws his "easy hire, easy fire" law for young, first-time, job-seekers.
    More than a million students, sixth-formers and sympathisers (…)

  • French Union Leaders Threaten Strike
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Philip White
    (EUNN) London - French union leaders threaten to strike over a contested jobs plan for youths that sparked violent protests in Paris over the weekend.
    French union leaders have given Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin until tomorrow night to withdraw the plan that would provide jobs for the young that critics of the jobs plan see as a reduction of older workers rights.
    Speaking on France-Inter radio, Bernard Thibault, head of the CGT union, said, "If the government (…)

  • In Search of Solidarity
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Christopher Hayes
    It’s a week before the holidays in New York City and there’s a transit strike. A strike? In 2005? It seems an anachronism, like meat rations or air raid drills. There’s a frisson of excitement in the air mixed with logistical dread and disbelief.
    The morning the strike begins, billionaire mayor Mike Bloomberg accuses the largely black and Latino union of acting "thuggishly" and then proceeds to class-bait the transit workers. "You’ve got people making $50,000 and (…)

  • Transit strike may embolden unions nationwide
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LARRY McSHANE
    NEW YORK - The three-day walkout by city transit workers, while a hassle for millions of New Yorkers, was a boost for unions from coast to coast as they face negotiations where management calls for health care and pension givebacks are almost inevitable, labor experts say.
    “This was a very important stand for those workers to have made,” said Ron Blackwell, chief economist for the AFL-CIO. “It will resonate nationally.”
    ADVERTISEMENT The 33,000 members of Transport (…)

  • Is The Strike Dead? Not According to Bob Schwartz...
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Steve Early
    Three years ago in Boston, downtown streets and office buildings were the scene of inspiring immigrant worker activism during an unprecedented strike by local janitors. Their walk-out was backed by other union members, community activists, students and professors, public officials, religious leaders, and even a few "socially-minded" businessmen. The janitors had long been invisible, mistreated by management and, until recently, ignored by their own SEIU local union. (…)

  • A Fight for the Future
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JOSHUA B. FREEMAN
    Editor’s Note: Bus and subway workers in New York City agreed to return to work and to the bargaining table Thursday as negotiators for the Transport Workers Union and the Metropolitan Transit Authority worked on a final settlement after a two-day strike that immobilized the city. Joshua B. Freeman examines the history and issues at stake: the fight against the lie that abstract, neutral economic necessity, not the ideas and interests of the rich and powerful, are (…)

  • Both sides did what they had to
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Juan Gonzalez
    For three days, their transit strike had paralyzed America’s greatest city, and now it was time to go back to work.
    The 33,700 members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 were exhausted. They had incurred the wrath of millions of transit riders, of Mayor Bloomberg, of Gov. Pataki, of the city’s entire business establishment, even of their own parent union in Washington. For violating the Taylor Law, the local and each individual striker still face huge fines.
    Still, (…)

  • It’s clear Bloomberg just didn’t get it
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Errol Louis
    Mayor Bloomberg yesterday confirmed that he stood by every word of his televised outburst against the Transport Workers Union’s leadership at the height of this week’s strike. He called them "thuggish," "selfish," "frauds" and the like. A host of critics, such as state Sen. Kevin Parker of Brooklyn, now accuse the mayor of being racially divisive.
    "We only need to look back to the day and time when MTA workers first gained the kind of pension and benefits which are now (…)