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  • Rank and file - Part 3
    17 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The institution of tighter job regulation for workers accompanied by greater discretion for managers in universities to make decisions over employment issues, represent an irrational postmodern transformation of universities into capitalist corporations, while the ideological neoliberal project driving such developments, functions to alienate academics and other university workers.
    Academics find themselves working involuntarily in the interests of the capital imperative; for institutions (…)

  • Egyptian workers wage ’biggest struggle since British rule’
    10 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Egyptian workers wage ’biggest struggle since British rule’
    By G. Dunkel
    Published Jun 8, 2008 9:13 PM
    A workers’ movement in Egypt that disdains the official trade union is building its own independent organizations and is confident enough of its strength that it recently attempted a general strike. Faced with a wave of strikes that are growing larger and more intense, the U.S.-backed regime of President Hosni Mubarak has responded with concessions for some workers and repression (…)

  • Video : Labor Leader : “Wall St. Has Hijacked the Economy!”
    3 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaTpgZHyeE
    Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasure of the AFL-CIO, was one of the featured speakers at the “International Workers Day Celebration” event, held on May 1, 2008, at the National Labor College, in Silver Spring, MD. He ripped into the evils of Globalization and the harmful effects that it is having on the economy and in particular on the lives of working class Americans. Mr. Trumka also charged: “Wall St. has hijacked the economy!” He is the former (…)

  • US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
    2 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
    By Fred Williams 2 May 2008
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) carried out an eight-hour work stoppage at West Coast ports on May 1 to demand an end to the war in Iraq.
    The work action halted activity at 29 ports from San Diego, California to Washington State. According to both the ILWU and the employers’ organization, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), 25,000 dockworkers represented by (…)

  • David Boren Dusts Off Oklahoma’s "Criminal Syndicalism" Law
    27 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma — mpwright8@aol.com
    April 2008
    According to Webster, a political revolution does not have to be violent:
    It says (2b) that a revolution is "a fundamental change in political organization; especially : the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed."
    According to this Oklahoma law (paragraph B), it is a felony crime for anyone over the age of 18 to advocate revolution on a college or (…)

  • AFL-CIO’s John J. Sweeney Fears “an American Nightmare!”
    16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Labor can not stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.” - Harry Bridges
    Baltimore, MD - On April 8, 2008, the President of the AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney spoke at the U. of Baltimore Law School, as part of its inaugural “Leaders in Labor” lecture series. He said that, as he travels around the country, he finds more and more people are “worried to death about the economy and tired of spending too many hours on the job for too little pay.” Mr. Sweeney underscored that the (…)

  • A teamsters’ blockade in the United States
    15 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A teamsters’ blockade in the United States
    Great article below and great coverage of the recent U.S. independent trucker action. However it is inaccurate to translate "camionero" as "teamsters" since in the U.s. "teamsters" would be taken and "Teamsters’ Union". the truckers wert NOT members of the Teamsters Union and actually the Teamsters Union OPPOSED the independent trucker action.
    And much. much bigger independent trucker actions are planned for May Day 2008, of course.
    Will any (…)

  • Union Group Stages Countrywide Protest in San Francisco
    20 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Labor union “Unite Here” held a protest outside Countrywide’s financial center in San Francisco today (19 dec), expanding their ongoing “Don’t Deposit at Countrywide” campaign.
    Protestors held signs that read “Don’t feed the bank that bites you” and passed out leaflets to passer-bys with the message, “Don’t Feed the Animals.”
    The group wants Countrywide to help the scores of at-risk borrowers who are already behind on their mortgages, a group the union believes will be ignored in favor (…)

  • The Future of Global Unions: Is Solidarity Still Forever?
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Alan Howard
    Last November in Vienna, fifteen years after the demise of the Soviet Union and well into the third decade of corporate-driven globalization, the international trade union movement was reorganized to eliminate its debilitating cold war political divisions and to enhance coordination across industrial lines made obsolete by globalization. The founding of this new organization, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which represents 168 million workers in 153 (…)

  • GM’s U.S. Workers Strike After Contract Talks Fail
    25 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GM’s U.S. Workers Strike After Contract Talks Fail
    By Jeff Green and John Lippert
    Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp.’s U.S. factory employees staged their first nationwide strike in 37 years after the largest U.S. automaker failed to reach a new labor agreement with the United Auto Workers.
    The walkout, at 11 a.m. New York time, came 10 days after the union extended the old contract past its expiration while the two sides negotiated. The latest round of bargaining had run for (…)