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  • GM’s Health-Care Shakedown Shows Systemic Flaws In Bush’s America
    21 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GM’s Health-Care Shakedown Shows Systemic Flaws In Bush’s America Bill Gallagher June 21, 2005 Detroit - General Motors and the United Autoworkers are on a collision course over health-care costs and the issue underscores the refusal of George W. Bush and the Republicans in Congress to do anything to fundamentally change our failed system. It also shows how gutless GM executives and the other suits in corporate America are in refusing even to discuss the issue in real terms. What’s good (…)

  • The US Labor Force: One Foot In The Third World
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US Labor Force: One Foot In The Third World Paul Graig Roberts June 8, 2005 In May the Bush economy eked out a paltry 73,000 private sector jobs: 20,000 jobs in construction (primarily for Mexican immigrants), 21,000 jobs in wholesale and retail trade, and 32,500 jobs in health care and social assistance. Local government added 5,000 for a grand total of 78,000. Not a single one of these jobs produces an exportable good or service. With Americans increasingly divorced from the (…)

  • Australia : thousands flock to May Day rallies
    2 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thousands of workers flocked to May Day rallies across Australia on Sunday to protest against the Howard government’s planned industrial relations reforms.
    The demonstrations marked International Workers Day and followed in the tradition of the first May Day rally in London in 1890.
    ACTU president Sharan Burrow warned Australians that many of their basic workplace rights would be threatened if the federal government went ahead with its plan for reform.
    The federal government intends to (…)

  • Americans find innovative ways to fight unemployment
    1 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The economy is strong...and it is getting stronger" George W Bush
    Upstate New York man gets the poop on outsourcing Sat April 30, 2005 1:19 AM GMT+05:30
    By Holly McKenna
    DELMAR, N.Y. (Reuters) - Computer programmer Steve Relles has the poop on what to do when your job is outsourced to India.
    Relles, one of a rising number of Americans seeking new opportunities as their work shifts to countries with cheaper labor, has spent the past year making his living scooping up dog droppings (…)

  • DFA: US concerned over pullout of OFWs in Iraq
    27 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The United States has expressed concern over Manila’s move to bring home all Filipino workers from Iraq amid increasing insurgency there, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo said Tuesday.
    Romulo said US Embassy officials have raised the issue several times since Manila offered to fly home the estimated 6,000 Filipino workers after two died in apparent attacks earlier this month.
    The Filipinos represent the biggest number of foreigners working for US-run military installations in (…)

  • One Sided CLASS WAR
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Working harder for less while business lines its pockets
    THREE YEARS into an economic recovery, workers are losing ground—so much so that the mainstream media are finally having to take notice.
    Once inflation is taken into account, compensation for nonsupervisory workers in the private sector—about 80 percent of the workforce—dropped 0.4 percent in 2004. Analyses in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times blamed the usual suspects: globalization and the outsourcing of jobs overseas, a (…)

  • Iraq’s Oilworkers Will Defend the Country’s Oil
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interview with Hassan Juma’a Awad
    Q: How was the Southern Oil Company Union organized?
    A: Two weeks after the occupying forces entered Basra on the 9th of April, 2003, Iraqi activists in the oil industry met to reestablish the union. We organized the workers for two reasons. First, we had to deal with the administration put in place by the occupying forces. Second, we fear that the purpose of the occupation is to take control of the oil industry. Without organizing ourselves, we would (…)

  • Wages Lagging Behind Prices
    11 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Inflation has outpaced the rise in salaries for the first time in 14 years. And workers are paying a bigger share of the cost of their healthcare.
    By Nicholas Riccardi Times Staff Writer
    For the first time in 14 years, the American workforce has in effect gotten an across-the-board pay cut.
    The growth in wages in 2004 and the first two months of this year trailed inflation, compounding the squeeze from higher housing, energy and other costs.
    The result is that people like Victor (…)

  • Fighting for Unions
    7 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stewart Acuff
    Some 57 million nonunion workers in the United States say they would form a union tomorrow if given the chance, according to new poll conducted in February by Peter D. Hart and Associates. For many of them, especially women and people of color, having a union is often the difference between living in or out of poverty. Yet the truth is that a sophisticated and systematic effort to deny workers their basic freedom of association is rampant in this country.
    Employers and (…)

  • The New Slavery
    1 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The average American in the year 2005 lives a fragile existence, in a struggle for survival that can be ended by missing a few paychecks. The carrot at the end of the stick which was formerly known as “the American dream” has been replaced by a whip that can best be described as the American nightmare of homelessness, and slow, early death. You no longer work to achieve a better life for yourselves and your children. You work to keep a roof over your head, and you pray that you don’t lose (…)