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Labor Crisis Brewing at Manhattan’s Community Access TV Station Lyell Davies | May 28, 2009—Community television producers and a former Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) staffer assembled outside MNN to charge that the station is failing in its mission of providing media services to community organizations and is cracking down on staffers opposed to the organization’s present direction. more... 0 Comments Roundup of Coverage of May Day 2009 in New York City NYC IMC | May Day 2009 in New York City was celebrated in the rain, as over a thousand people gathered in different locations in the metropolitan area to rally for immigrant rights. more... 3 Comments Billy Wharton | Now, as the economic miracle of Wall Street has degenerated into a nightmare of zombie banks, state bailouts and toxic assets, Kate’s patrons are left to wrestle with a destruction of wealth so monumental that it swept away their stock market illusions. more... 0 Comments Carl Davidson's Report for the Left Forum
Carl Davidson | New York City's annual 'Left Forum' this year was a solid success. Under the theme "Turning Points, it drew more than 2000 participants to Pace University April 17-19, to take part in some 200 panels featuring around 600 speakers. Alex Kane | Channeling widespread populist anger at seemingly never ending bank bailouts and excessive executive compensation, hundreds of demonstrators converged on Wall St. this afternoon for a rally and march through the financial district, even as a steady rain continued throughout the day. more... 17 Comments
Sarah Secunda | The strike had been launched to protest, among other concessions, wage cuts of up to 26 percent demanded by Brynwood Partners, the private equity firm that purchased Stella D’oro from Kraft Foods, Inc. in 2006. Karen Yi | Atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center, employees from every nationality graced the tables of the Windows on the World restaurant serving exquisite wines and delicacies while speaking in their native tongues for the benefit of tourists that came to dine at one of the city’s must-see attractions. But after the 9/11 attacks, the plethora of languages was snuffed out. The fall of the towers took the lives of 73 Windows on the World employees, displacing hundreds more. In the years that followed, Windows on the World survivors found themselves still struggling to recover from the loss of their jobs and their co-workers while watching in dismay as anti-immigrant sentiments gained strength in the larger society. more... 0 Comments Striking Workers at Bronx Cookie Plant Face Difficult Christmas Season Micah Landau | It is Christmas time, but there is little holiday cheer at the Stella D’Oro cookie factory in the Bronx. The 136 workers at the famous Italian biscuit company, members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers (BCTGM) International Union Local 50, have now been on strike for more than four months and it may be several more before they head back to work. The workers’ contract extension expired at the end of July and Local 50 called the strike when the owners walked out of negotiations on August 13. more... 2 Comments We Won't Back Down: Starbucks Manager Threatens Lawsuit and t Against IWW
Worker Freedom | Statement of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union followed by threat letter received yesterday New Yorkers Reject Paterson’s “Doomsday” Budget Counterhegemonic | We must encourage democratically organized political expressions which reflect the growing anger and disillusionment of poor and working class communities. All available forms of non-violent protest – from sit-ins to occupations, from education to mass direct action – must be employed in this struggle. more... 0 Comments Occupied building of GSEE (in Greece)
@ | Since 8 o'clock in the morning the building of GSEE (Patision and Alexandras) is occupied. NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 12.14.08 NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War | Chicago Protest: U.S. Out of Middle East Now "This is the first speak out of this sort [that I know of] since Obama has been elected." more... 0 Comments In this week's Socialist WebZine.... Socialist WebZine | * Debs and Tubman Win National Holiday Poll more... 2 Comments NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 12.13.08 NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War | "We knew keeping the windows in the warehouse was a bargaining chip." more... 0 Comments The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) NOW
SPFPA | The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is legislation in the United States which aims to "amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes. Ron Carey: Visionary Teamster Leader Dies at 72
Teamsters for a Democratic Union | Ron Carey, a former UPS driver and Teamster president who set the standard for union leaders for courage and honesty and transformed the leadership of our union died yesterday at age 72. ACT NOW! - SBUX Responds to Union Action by Denying Anna; Need Further Action Daniel Gross & the Starbucks Workers Union | Anna Hurst is trying to get 2 weeks pay from Starbucks more... 0 Comments Anti-Authoritarians Disrupt Bank of America Branches in NYC Stephanie Basile | This is one of many actions that were held in solidarity with the striking UE workers in Chicago. more... 1 Comments Ron Carey: Class Struggle Teamster Leader Dies at 72 Bill Leumer, Workers Action | On December 12, 2008, the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), a reform caucus in the Teamsters Union, sent out the following message announcing the death of Ron Carey. more... 0 Comments NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 12.12.08 NYCLAW -- New York City Labor Against the War | If there is a happy ending to the Groundhog Day of repeated wars and plunder, it may well be found in the very mass movement whose enthusiasts registered voters and knocked on doors and brought Obama to power. Will they now be satisfied as spectators to the cynicism of "continuity"? more... 0 Comments Chicago Workers' Plant Occupation Ends in Victory repost, CIMC | Latest from the Republic Windows workers in Chicago more... 0 Comments Spreading the Wealth: A review of Unjust Deserts
Mark Engler | The foremost ethical question is, given that we owe most of our productivity to a common social inheritance, to what extent can we say that we have "earned" our personal wealth? Workers in Chicago Win! Local Votes to end Sit-in Counterhegemonic | Vote is 'Yes' at Republic; Plant Occupation Ends more... 0 Comments 23rd Annual Holiday Appeal Benefit Fundraiser for Class-War Prisoners
Partisan Defense Committee | Saturday, December 13th Jesús Reyes Heroles, despidos y corrupción en PEMEX Unión Nacional de Técnicos y Prof. Petroleros | El jueves 4 de noviembre a las 19:00 horas el director general de Petróleos Mexicanos, Jesús Reyes Heroles González Garza fue obligado a recibir a la Comisión de Trabajo de la Cámara de Diputados requerido para que explicara los despidos injustificados. more... 0 Comments Building Bridges Radio: People's Bailout Now; Wal-Mart Shopping Death
Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg | WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report Bank of America Agrees to Extend Credit to Republic Doors and Windows... Counterhegemonic | Have the factory occupiers won???? more... 1 Comments Page 73 |
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