News relating to Organized Labor, Strikes, Unionization, and Worker’s Struggles in the Workplace.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Skid Row resident Dadisi Komolafe points indignantly to the sign reading “Union Rescue Mission,” and grumbles that the name no longer fits since the shelter started charging for a nightly stay. “They should change it to… Read More ›
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota began what is expected to become the broadest shutdown of state services in its history early Friday, after Republicans and Democrats there failed to agree on how to solve the state’s budget woes in time for the… Read More ›
“Zionism” is a political movement that calls for the establishment of a Jewish state, manifested mostly in support for the current state of Israel, established in 1948. Zionism, in claiming to establish a Jewish state in the lands of Palestine,… Read More ›
(Reuters) – New Jersey’s Democratic-led Legislature gave final approval on Thursday to a plan that would force public workers to pay more for benefits — a signature issue for Republican Governor Chris Christie. The bill, which was bitterly opposed by… Read More ›
Editor’s Note: June 28, 2011 is the two-year anniversary of the coup in Honduras. The small town of San Marco, near Honduras’ western border with El Salvador and Guatemala, has no distinguishing factors that set it apart from the other… Read More ›
On the early morning of New Year’s Day 2009, Oscar Grant, after being detained along with a group of his friends by police officers of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Unit, was fatally shot in the back by officer Johannes… Read More ›
US military forces are now waging simultaneous drone missile attacks, bombings, special forces assassination raids and ground combat in five separate countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. President Barack Obama, who owed his 2008 election victory in large measure… Read More ›
If you have eaten a tomato this winter, chances are very good that it was picked by a person who lives in virtual slavery. Driving from Naples, Florida, the nation’s second-wealthiest metropolitan area, to Immokalee takes less than an hour… Read More ›
Orlando police say they violated a city ordinance restricting the feedings Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park. Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin… Read More ›
Presidential candidate Herman Cain, speaking Monday at CNN’s Republican presidential candidates’ debate in New Hampshire, spoke thusly of privatizing Social Security: “I support a personal retirement system option in order to phase (out) the current system. We know that this… Read More ›
From: Moratorium on Deportations Campaign and May Day 2011 March Organizers This Flag Day, Tuesday, June 14 at noon, join with the May Day 2011 Organizing Committee and the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign and allies to “FLAG” THE CHICAGO POLICE… Read More ›
“We are dealing with a complete range from exploitation, physical, psychological, sexual in some areas to carrying very heavy loads, to being exposed to chemicals…to working long hours…to working in repetitive tasks, to working in isolation…young children require that brain… Read More ›
Upper Big Branch report By Samuel Davidson 31 May 2011 Autopsies performed on 24 of the 29 miners killed in the April 5, 2010, blast at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia last year revealed that 17 had… Read More ›
Santiago, Chile, May 7, 2011 May 7, 2011 successfully concluded the series of events that the Communist Party of Chile (Proletarian Action) held in commemoration of the 66th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi-Fascism. As part of the cultural celebrations,… Read More ›
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