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  • New York City transit strike was quashed by the unions
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Bill Van Auken
    A group of top union officials in New York City played the key role in bringing about the abrupt end of the New York City transit strike, brokering a deal that leaves 34,000 subway and bus workers exposed to punishing financial penalties and the continued drive by their employer, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), to extract far-reaching concessions.
    This was the first shutdown of the nation’s largest mass transit system in 25 years. It expressed the (…)

  • MTA Strike: The Politics of No-Tomorrow
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Wayne Barrett
    Would this strike be happening if Governor George Pataki were running for re-election next year? Would Mike Bloomberg’s city be shut down if the expiration date on the Transport Workers Union’s contract were September or October, when he reached pre-election settlements with half a dozen city unions?
    If your answer is no to either question, then you believe, as anyone with a memory in New York knows, that politics is the only explanation for this maddening and (…)

  • New York Rising, and Going Back to Bed
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WOID #17 -
    Strike one for the working guy.
    If the Masters of the Universe (New York’s mayor, New York State, the bosses, Wall Street and the lumpenbobos thought this was going to be "1980 Transit Strike, II" they’ve been disappointed.
    Nineteen-eighty : good little New Yorkers crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, Job über Alles, with the Mayor playing Right-to-Work Guiding the people, not much in the titty department, though.
    This time : nothing. Deserted streets. My post office closed. (…)

  • WHY I AM ON STRIKE
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michelle Fawcett
    When I moved to NYC to start a Ph.D. program at NYU in 2000, my biggest concern was not the rigors of graduate study or the challenge of moving to another new city alone. It was the fear of being unable to survive economically.
    Sure, I was going to work in addition to being a student: as a graduate assistant, or GA, for my department. GAs work as research assistants (RAs) or teaching assistants (TAs).
    The work of an RA might include co-editing an article with a (…)

  • CANNED MUSIC AT THE THEATER ISN’T A SWEET SOUND
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BY CARLTON WILKINSON
    The two-week musicians’ strike at Radio City Music Hall in November ended in a deal hammered out with the help of a mediator named by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. A job action staged by musicians union Local 802 halted a dress rehearsal, and the resulting dispute left the Rockettes dancing to prerecorded music for shows in the first two weeks of November.
    On Nov. 18, the live musicians returned to the "Christmas Spectacular," playing to packed audiences as (…)

  • Opera downsizes as Italy’s divas go on hunger strike
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Singers and staff take drastic action in protest at budget cuts
    by Barbara McMahon in Rome
    Opera lovers in Italy this season may notice something different about the performers. Many of them are looking distinctly svelte after going on hunger strike to protest about proposed cuts to the country’s arts budget. Living on only water, fruit juice and coffee, singers’ weights have shrunk.
    Barbara Vignudelli, a soprano at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, has had no solid food for two (…)

  • Belgium hit by second mass strike
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Belgian workers have caused widespread disruption with a 24-hour national strike in protest at government plans to up the retirement age from 58 to 60.
    Few buses and trams were running in most cities, and Charleroi airport, south of Brussels, was shut down.
    Trains were not affected as unions wanted them to keep running to carry people to protests in the capital.
    Tens of thousands of protesters have been marching through Brussels to get the prime minister to reconsider.
    A primary (…)

  • hunger strike
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    hi, Am busy right now, but am wondering why the mainstream media is not covering the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay?
    – http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en...

  • ’What can they do to 40,000 teachers?’
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PETTI FONG
    VANCOUVER — Teachers walked the picket lines, the NDP filibustered in Victoria and the school employers went to court yesterday in the first day of an illegal strike by the province’s 42,000 teachers.
    The provincial Liberals, after waiting out an all-night delay tactic by the NDP, passed the legislation that imposed a settlement on the province’s teachers, who have been without a contract since July, 2004.
    The school employers went to B.C. Supreme Court late yesterday to (…)

  • France : a million protesters...
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A nationwide one-day strike in France has disrupted travel and business and dealt the first major challenge to the economic program of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
    Official figures showed turn-out from the public sector, with 30 percent of railway staff and teachers, 23 percent of electricity workers and between 15 and 30 percent of post office staff joining the stoppages.
    Demonstrations were staged in cities from Marseille in the south to Le Havre in the north, with the largest (…)