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  • DALLAS A HORRIBLE WORLD
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DALLAS A HORRIBLE WORLD!
    Culture of the fear, denouncement, organization of petition against pay during their stop disease, installation of the talks of return after a stop disease, here the daily newspaper of certain American companies which are windy to apply a modern management... Now discover the back of the decoration... Saturday January 14, 2006 21:02 Statute: "Confidential Company information", here the title of the memo that the employees of the group office Depot France could (…)

  • RIGHT-TO-WORK, PREVAILING WAGE FIGHT MAY STIR ALL CAMPAIGNS
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Labor becomes election issue
    By Ryan Alessi
    FRANKFORT — Regardless of whether it was intended, Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s forceful push for legislation targeted at organized labor is morphing into more of an election issue than a legislative one.
    Fletcher’s aggressive support for the repeal of the prevailing wage law and enactment of so-called "right to work" legislation has pleased many business leaders, who often show appreciation through campaign donations.
    Some Democrats have said (…)

  • What Was the Matter with Ohio?: Unions and Evangelicals in the Rust Belt
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by James Straub
    It was a fittingly ironic end to an election full of grotesque twists: When George W. Bush was narrowly reelected president of the United States, it was the electoral votes of the state he had harmed most that gave him the final nudge across the finish line. Ohio went for the second election in a row to the Republican clown prince. But if the first Bush victory was tragedy, the one in 2004 was surely farce: has world history ever turned before on the artful elevation of gay (…)

  • Harry Belafonte : THE SITUATION ROOM
    26 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Harry Belafonte Lashes Out; President Bush’s Answers Questions; Wildfire Blazing in Southern California; FDA Debates Weight Loss Pill
    Aired January 23, 2006 - 19:00 ET
    THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
    WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you the day’s top stories. Happening now, it’s 7:00 p.m. in Michigan where an icon of American industry is struggling. Ford (…)

  • Third World America
    22 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I just happened to stumble upon this web site and I now feel compelled to write what I KNOW to be truth. I am an American. Born in the state of Kentucky and I have lived here all my life. I have been in 49 of the other states and during those travels I did see a similarity to my own beloved home of Kentucky. Those similarities are as follows.. Here in my state poverty is RAMPANT. There are no jobs of any decent calibur, only WalMart, McDonalds and the like. The majority of people can afford (…)

  • Inside Coke’s Labor Struggles
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BusinessWeek travels to Colombia to speak with labor leaders, politicians, workers and others who can shed light on the controversy
    To shed more light on the conflicting claims in the Colombia Coca-Cola (KO ) controversy, BusinessWeek sent Mexico City-based Latin America Correspondent Geri Smith to Colombia for a week in late October. She interviewed more than a dozen people, including labor unionists, academics, diplomats, economists, current and former Coke workers, and the country’s (…)

  • Even Without a Union, Florida Wal-Mart Workers Use Collective Action to Enforce Rights
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Nick Robinson
    Workers at Wal-Mart and other big-box retail chains-like workers in any mostly nonunion industry with low pay and tense, dreary working conditions-are generally a disgruntled lot. In central Florida, Wal-Mart workers are fighting and sometimes winning campaigns using collective action to solve both shop floor and larger industry-wide problems.
    In one rural Florida town, over 20 percent of workers in the local Wal-Mart had their hours cut. In response, workers went into (…)

  • A Joint Statement Concerning the Programs of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Iraq
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Iraqi Trade Unions
    The Iraqi economy has been severely affected by decades of sanctions, wars and occupation. The Iraqi trade unions and federations believe in the capacity of the country with all its oil and mineral resources to provide a decent living standard for Iraqis.
    The federations and unions consider that the wars and occupation have caused a dramatic decrease in the living and social standards of Iraqis and especially of workers.
    The federations and unions stress the (…)

  • GM, the Delphi Concessions, and North American Workers: Round Two?
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sam Gindin
    It is important to recall that, until the 1970s, collective bargaining in the United States and Canada was largely about workers demanding improvements from their employers. But a new era in collective bargaining erupted at the end of the 1970s that was soon dubbed "concessionary bargaining." Corporations were now the ones making the demands. Tensions had been building through the decade, with corporations increasingly asserting that they could no longer both maintain profit (…)

  • Working-Class Hero
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by WILLIAM P. JONES
    The recent transit workers’ strike in New York City was a vivid reminder that unions maintain considerable leverage despite their shrinking numbers. Buried beneath the stories about tense negotiations, holiday shopping disruptions and commuters hoofing it over the Brooklyn Bridge was one of labor’s past glories—the creation of Martin Luther King Day. When Transport Workers’ Union president Roger Toussaint demanded recognition of the holiday, he cited the Metropolitan (…)