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  • ATROCIOUS SLAVE LABOR AT XMAS
    18 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SLAVE LABOR FOR XMAS
    By Peter Fredson
    December 17, 2006
    We speak of the slave-type labor performed for Neocon corporations in Latin America or China, but has anyone thought of the slave-type labor performed by Santa’s Elves?
    This is the time of year when we should ask such questions for humanitarian reasons. Evidently they work 18 hours a day, all year. Do they get any vacations? Paid? Sick Leave? Pensions? Health Care? Do they have any ombudsman, lawyers? Where can they go to adjust (…)

  • Wal-Mart factory workers assaulted, fired for going on strike
    1 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Action urgently needed: Contact Wal-Mart now!
    Maquila Solidarity Network
    Workers producing clothes for Wal-Mart at the Korean-owned Chong Won Fashion garment factory in the Philippines desperately need your support to put a stop to their employers’ attempt to destroy their union through violence, mass firings and intimidation.
    This morning (September 27), a combined force of municipal and free trade zone police and private security guards attacked the strikers who were peacefully (…)

  • ISLAMABAD: Complete shutter down strike observed throughout the country
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ISLAMABAD: Complete shutter down strike was observed throughout the country, whereas partial strike was observed on Friday in Punjab and Peshawar on joint opposition strike call to protest against the killing of Former Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and government policies.
    Complete wheel jam and shutter down strike was observed throughout Balochistan against the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and amendments in the controversial Hudood Ordinance.
    All the major (…)

  • Health care reaches tipping point
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Companies can no longer afford insurance; only government can
    by Ron Gettelfinger
    This Labor Day, you can find a solution to one of the most difficult problems facing American workers and employers by reading a single magazine article: "The Risk Pool," by Malcolm Gladwell, in the Aug. 28 issue of the New Yorker magazine.
    Examining the roots of our health care and pension dilemma, Gladwell reports that when General Motors and the United Auto Workers were negotiating in 1950, corporate (…)

  • Workers Bear the Costs of War
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Labor Day marks the third year that thousands of working Americans have left their families and their jobs to fight in a war that the Bush administration will not bring to a close.
    As always, labor has borne the brunt of the war. The vast majority of the 2,600 dead and 20,000 wounded are young men and women pulled off the factory and shop floors and told that they should defend their country from a threat that proved to be nonexistent.
    More than half of those killed were under the (…)

  • Chile copper miners’ strike ends
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A strike at the world’s largest privately-owned copper mine has ended after workers voted in a secret ballot.
    Union members at Chile’s Escondida mine accepted new contracts, so ending a 25-day dispute, but it will take up to a week for full production to resume.
    Workers voted more than 13 to one to accept a new 40-month contract, with a 5% wage rise and a $17,000 bonus.
    La Escondida, owned by Anglo-Australian company BHP Billiton, produces 8% of the world’s copper supply.
    During the (…)

  • COLORS Restaurant - A new democratic worker-cooperative challenges the industry
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    COLORS Restaurant - A new democratic worker-cooperative challenges the industry By John Lawrence
    In the fall of 2005, COLORS restaurant opened in the heart of Greenwich Village, in New York City. In an elegant setting with Bauhaus and Art Deco touches, COLORS offers a creative seasonal menu based on favorite family recipes of its staff, who hail from 22 countries.
    More than an excellent restaurant, however, COLORS is one part of a labor struggle to revolutionize the New York restaurant (…)

  • Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and DAVID LEONHARDT
    With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase in real wages for most workers.
    That situation is adding to fears among Republicans that the economy will hurt vulnerable incumbents in this year’s midterm elections even though overall growth has been healthy for much of the last five years.
    The median hourly (…)

  • Iraq Oil Workers on Strike
    25 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 23—Hundreds of oil company employees went on strike Tuesday for higher pay, AP said.
    The job action cut supplies to power stations and factories as Iraq faces its worst fuel shortage since Saddam Hussein’s 2003 ouster.
    About 350 workers from the Iraqi Pipes and Lines Company in the southern city of Basra and another 200 in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, walked off the job Tuesday morning, according to the head of the workers’ union.
    The workers (…)

  • Ignoring split, labor makes election push
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rival union federations agree to coordinate get-out-the-vote and other efforts for November.
    By Amanda Paulson
    CHICAGO - One year after America’s labor movement saw its largest schism in decades, unions are gearing up for a high-stakes political battle in November.
    It’s the first test of how the split between the AFL-CIO and the new seven-union Change to Win labor federation will affect the political activities of the labor movement. It’s also a chance for unions to demonstrate that (…)