News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
By SONYA QUICK, FERMIN LEAL, ERIC CARPENTER and CINDY CARCAMO / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER ANAHEIM – Police Chief John Welter said Sunday afternoon that a man killed by officers was chased because of suspicious activity. The dead man was… Read More ›
[Translated by PC (AP)] INTERVIEW JACOB JUGASHVILI, THE GREAT GRANDSON OF THE MAN OF STEEL Vladimir Ilich Lenin Cell Chilean Comunista Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP) La Serena – Chile Jacob Jugashvili is a graduate professional artist, his native country… Read More ›
ENTREVISTA JACOB JUGASHVILI, EL BISNIETO DEL HOMBRE DE ACERO Por Celula Vladimir Ilich Lenin Partido Comunista Chileno PC (AP) La Serena-Chile Jacob Jugashvili es un artista (pintor) profesional graduado en su país natal Georgia e Inglaterra. Hoy en día su… Read More ›
Governor Mitt Romney got all the press at the NAACP convention in Houston on Wednesday, but janitor Alice McAfee got a standing-o. She spoke to a packed auditorium about her plight and that of over 3,000 fellow janitors in the… Read More ›
“He wasn’t a troublemaker. This was cold-blooded murder.” ~Rufino Lara’s nephew Houston police officers at the scene claim they gave orders to this man to stop in both English and Spanish; they claim he was shot fatally only after he… Read More ›
By MICHAEL COOPER and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH When the city of Scranton, Pa., found itself down to its last $5,000 in the bank last week, its Democratic mayor took a highly unusual step: he unilaterally cut the pay of city… Read More ›
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday lowered its estimates for US economic growth for this year and next, and urged policy makers to do more to help the housing sector and support the tepid recovery. In its annual… Read More ›
By Laura Gottesdiener As foreclosures continue to put historic pressure on the nation’s rental market, slumlords now have more opportunity than ever to prey on the most vulnerable of tenants. The electrical box in the basement of multifamily brownstone on… Read More ›
Introduction: A Fetish for the Individual Above All People in the United States are taught that all of life’s fortunes and misfortunes are brought about solely by the actions of the individual. We are taught that a person, by virtue… Read More ›
On Monday, the 25th of June, 2012, the American Party of Labor successfully concluded its Third Party Congress. The “Congress of the Flags,” as the Third Party Congress has been named, was held in Chicago, Illinois between 22 and 25… Read More ›
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›
HARTFORD, Conn. — About 700 staff members at five Connecticut nursing homes followed through with a threatened strike on Tuesday to protest what they say are labor concessions imposed by the New Jersey company that owns the facilities. Nurses, nursing… Read More ›
by Saki Knafo and Joy Resmovits Back in November of 2005, Diane Nilan had what she now concedes may have struck some people as a “crazy notion.” She’d been working as advocate for homeless families in Illinois, getting frustrated by… Read More ›
For a certain segment of the Ron Paul fanbase, no evidence of his disseminating hateful, paranoid material will ever be enough. Citing James Kirchick’s piece in The New Republic wasn’t sufficient, because Kirchick could have just been “making everything up.”… Read More ›
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