Sep
26
From Labor 411 on facebook.
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Feb
3
Candidate for United States Senate Elizabeth Warren, visits the Local 25 Picketline at Certainteed Saint-Gobain in Norwood, Massachusetts to show support for the 89 Teamsters on strike. The French owned Saint-Gobain is attempting to gut the workers healthcare plan. STOP THE WAR ON WORKERS! Thank you for your support Elizabeth Warren. — from Pro Labor Alliance Inc.
Sep
6
Unions are divided on the KeystoneXL tar sands pipeline: “Not only do we hurt the environment, but we lose our allies.”- Amalgamated Transit Union President Larry Hanley
More from Mike Elk of In These Times
Aug
19
I see non-corporate-persons.
“For nearly two weeks, Verizon employees have stood hand in hand in defiance against Verizon in an effort to get the giant corporation to bargain in good faith. Currently, there are nearly 45,000 striking union members, who have not received a paycheck since the strike began.” from GlobalProv.com
There’s a real do-or-die spirit in these videos from the August 16-18 United Steel Worker convention which has the theme “Stand Up Fight Back!” It’s that time in history where we will pivot–either falling further under corporate power or pulling together our own power. That has to include labor and that means we’re talking about collective bargaining. “Collective bargaining” is the phrase that was censored in this summer’s Wisconsin recalls. I suggest we remember to say loud and proud every right held dear. Rights you’re not able to name will be taken away from you. More of Bernie’s speech at bluecheddar.net - also video of Wisconsin Senator Lena Taylor and USW Prez Leo Gerard.
Aug
9
John Nichols poses for a pic with an IBEW member this morning in Madison. :) #wiunion #wirecall
Jul
23
“There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”-Abraham Lincoln Artist: Michael Glenwood
Jul
8
Graffiti: I dream of a nation with a living wage…
Jul
7
One speech by TUC head Brendan Barber might have sounded familiar in Wisconsin or Ohio:
“The burden of deficit reduction is being piled unfairly on to millions of low- and medium-paid public sector workers who did nothing to cause the crash.”….
Even the doctors’ union, the staid British Medical Association, voted overwhelmingly at its recent convention to ballot for “all forms of industrial action” if the government does not retreat on pensions.
Britain’s public employees will soon be joining their European counterparts in escalating labor unrest. More from
British Strike Begins Drive to Save Public Pensions
at labornotes
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