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  • French Muslims face job discrimination
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Days of rioting in the bleaker suburbs of Paris have highlighted discontent among many French youths of North African origin.
    As part of a series on French Muslims, the BBC News website’s Henri Astier looks at the issue of discrimination, a leading source of frustration in France’s unemployment-riddled ghettos.
    Sadek recently quit his job delivering groceries near Saint-Denis, just north of Paris. He was tired of climbing stairs with heavy bags.
    Sadek, 31, has a secondary school (…)

  • Why Are Democrats Working For Wal-Mart?
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jonathan Tasini
    I’m going to spend a second day here on the Beast of Bentonville. If you want to know why the Democratic Party will continue to be the minority party in the country, look no further than the raft of Democratic operatives and elected representatives who do the bidding of Wal-Mart. At the end of this rant, I’ll propose a solution to cut off money to any of these Democrats who have ties to Wal-Mart.
    Yesterday, I attended the screening of Robert Greenwald’s new film, (…)

  • AFL-CIO calls for Dec. 10 Mobilization: Largest-Ever for Workers’ Rights
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Working families and their allies are gearing up for the nation’s largest-ever mobilization to support workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively. Throughout the week of Dec. 5-10, thousands of workers in 63 cities—and the number is growing daily—will take the fight to restore workers’ freedom to form unions to the White House, statehouses and front doors of employers that deny workers’ rights.
    The nationwide events are part of a massive global mobilization on Dec. 10, (…)

  • Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with High Court Nomination of Right-Wing Activist Alito
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    PFAW will wage massive national effort to defeat nominee who would dramatically shift balance of Court WASHINGTON - October 31 - President Bush put the demands of his far-right political base above Americans’ constitutional rights and legal protections by nominating federal appeals court Judge Samuel Alito to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, said People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas. “Right-wing leaders vetoed Miers because she failed their (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • For Blacks, a Dream in Decline
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LOUIS UCHITELLE
    THE Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. set forth the goal. Civil rights and union membership were to be intertwined. The labor movement, Dr. King wrote in 1958, "must concentrate its powerful forces on bringing economic emancipation to white and Negro by organizing them together in social equality."
    That happened in the 1960’s and 1970’s. But then unions lost bargaining power and members. And while labor leaders called attention to the overall decline, few took notice (…)

  • Australian government launches major assault on workers’ conditions and rights
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Terry Cook
    A 68-page booklet, entitled “Workchoices: A new workplace relations system,” released on the weekend of October 8-9 confirms the sweeping attacks on working conditions and workers’ rights at the core of the Howard government’s draconian industrial relations (IR) “reforms”, due to go before parliament later this month.
    On the eve of the booklet’s release, Prime Minister John Howard and Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews met with leading employer bodies in a one-hour (…)

  • Haliburton’s New Low In Treachery
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Monday, October 17, 2005 by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin) Halliburton’s New Low in Treachery by Dave Zweifel
    The Chicago Tribune produced an incredible story last week detailing how unsuspecting young men from poor countries are tricked into working in dangerous jobs for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq.
    The two-part series retraced the journey of a group of Nepalese men who were lured to the Mideast with fraudulent paperwork that promised them jobs at a luxury hotel (…)

  • Wal-Mart Can Hide, But It Can’t Run
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Robert Greenwald’s upcoming documentary about Wal-Mart’s predatory practices is part of an unprecedented progressive media campaign.
    By Don Hazen
    Wal-Mart has taken advantage of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina to try to distract the public from the myriad controversies that have plagued it recently. The extent of Wal-Mart’s sins includes lawsuits about discrimination, union busting, worker anger over backlogs of unpaid overtime, and health care and compensation policies that send many (…)

  • Both Labor Federations Fail Test of Strike Solidarity
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Steve Early
    Having two labor federations, instead of one, is not a new idea in America—or necessarily a negative development.
    Prior to the 1955 merger of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), union competition was more often the norm in the U.S. than not. As a result, workers often had a wider range of options when they decided to organize or became dissatisfied with their existing union representation.
    In the 1880s and ’90s, for (…)