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Labor, Unions, and Social Change
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2010
2009
2008
- SEIU Andy Stern is a threat to labor soul
- The Labor Agenda
- UAW leadership begs to make more concessions
- The UAW's Bailout Surrender
- Greek Workers Occupy Union Offices
- UAW Complains of Unfair Conditions In Auto Bailout
- General strike in Italy
- Vitters Would Rather Pay a Hooker than an Auto Worker
- SEIU Charity Scam
- History of Sit Down Strikes: An Early Account
- SEIU Linked to Illinois Gov Corruption Scandal
- JP Morgan Promises Concessions to Chicago SitDowners
- Idled Workers Occupy Factory in Chicago
- Michael Moore Wants the Full Corporate State
- UAW Begs to Make More Concessions
- UAW Schemes More Concessions
- 4,000 SEIU Members March for Reforms
- Crime In SEIU Starts With Stern
- The UAW Losses At Black Lake
- SEIU And AUD
- More SEIU Hacks Removed in CA
- Third SEIU Hack Quits Job in California
- NEA Locals Slowly Start to Join AFL-CIO
- Labor Department reportedly joins investigation of SEIU payments
- SEIU Spending Scandal Hits Michigan
- Gettlefinger, Labor Boss, Waives the Flag and Howls Obamagogue
- SEIU California Hack Retreats From Union Charges
- US Investigates LA SEIU Bogus Elections
- More SEIU Corruption in California
- AFT, AFSCME, SEIU, Sucker Colorado Workers
- UAW for Obamagogue
- CLNews: Reflections on a Rigged SEIU Convention
- Mexico Auto Workers Mimic UAW and Wages Drop Lower Still
- Union blockades GM headquarters in Oshawa
- LaborTalk: Stern Imposes Corporate Model on Union; Sets Up Call Centers to Handle Grievances
- Corporate entitlement behind American Axle strike
- I Blame the UAW...bye bye 1/4 GM workers, 1/2 Am Axel
- Andy Stern's Bogus Company Unionism in Philly
- Newly elected Palm Beach County FLA pres now under attack but interesting video
- American Axel Sellout Finalized -- Note:
The UAW forced the strikers to live on 200 dollars a week. The UAW has
nearly a billion dollars in the bank, the strike fund is $914, 244,
968.00, to be precise
- UAW Sells Out American Axel Strike
- Has Canadian labour given up the fight?
- Unions Forge Secret Pacts With Major Employers
- Dockworkers Shut Down West Coast Ports on Mayday
- Fighting for Worker Rights
- US Airways Pilots Replace Their Union
- Staughton Lynd: Another World Is Possible
- On Insubordination
- Court Grants Injunction Vs SEIU Goons
- An Open Letter to SEIU Members and Leaders on the Violence at the Labor Notes Conference
- NYTimes on Fascist Attack on Labor Notes
- Detroit NewsPaper Strike
- CNA's press release
- SEIU Press Release on their Goons Attack
- UFT-AFT Boss Weingarten to Make $600,000 a Year
- SEIU Attacks Nurses At Labor Notes Conference in Michigan
- SEIU International Attacks Labor Notes Gathering, Conference Goers Assaulted
- Labor Talk: Is Andy Stern’s SEIU Organizing Model
Good or Harmful for Workers and Unions?
- IWW Pamphlets Online
- Stakes rising in AAM strike, hiring of scabs planned
- UAW ranks decline 14% Fewer jobs, struggles with organizing are reasons
- UAW Membership Collapses Below 500,000
- Massive general strike in Greece
- AFL-CIO Council Plans Campaign to Win Election and Legislative Victories in 2009
- CNA and SEIU Battle in Ohio
- Public sector strike brings chaos to Germany
- SEIU's Rivera deal with governor to screw Puerto Rico teachers
- DAVID BACON and BILL FLETCHER TO SPEAK ON LABOR SOLIDARITY -- laughable
- Douglas A. Fraser, 91, Union Chief Who Helped Chrysler, Is Dead
- Elections Are Not The Answer
- SEIU official accusing union president of power grab
- A Case of Labor Colonialism: AFL-CIO-AFT and Change to Win-SEIU vs. the FMPR
- The AFL-CIO Has No Plan to Organize Workers Until Congress Passes Employee Free Choice Act
- Union Leadership Remains Passive and Silent
While Workers Feel Impact of Economic Crisis
- The Good News and the Bad News About Labor’s Organizing Efforts
- After twelve years: Where is that labor-intellectual alliance?
- Union Members Percentages 2007
- For first time in UFT history, a black or Latina could lead it
- LaborTalk: Unions Aren’t Reaching Unorganized Workers With a Message That Deals with Their Concerns
- Mexican Government Moves To Smash Copper Strike
- Future of the Union On VEBA
- Judge's Gag Order Hides VEBA/UAW Details
- LaborTalk: Many Unions Put Organizing on Hold, Waiting for a Law to Curb Employers
- Teachers Sue to Block Hotel Workers’ Union Vote in Nevada Caucus
- Gangster Unions Shaken By Obama Win
2007
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2006
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What Labor Cannot Say |
Protesters lash out against wage cuts |
Batay Ouvriye's Smoking Gun:
The 100,000 NED Grant |
Criticism of Cesar Chavez Compiled in Links:
- Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots
- "Cesar Chavez's Fall From Grace", /Village Voice/.
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United Farm Workers Leave AFL-CIO |
| WORKING CLASS VIDEOS — MOVIES & DOCUMENTARIES (*INCLUDING LABOR VIDEOS) |
Northwest Gets Another Concession Contract from Union |
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Unions kept pace with growing U.S. workforce in 2005
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Prison guards lock up bundle in OT pay
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F.B.I., in Bid-Rigging Inquiry, Raids Offices of Labor Leader |
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SEIU's Stern champions union reforms in the new economy |
Salt of the Earth -- movie available for downloading online |
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Concessions spark UAW bickering |
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Union Chief Will Seek New Vote on Rejected Transit Contract |
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| Marx' Reserve Arny of Labor Goes Global |
The Spectacle of Labor at the Trough |
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| May Day Rallies Are Mostly Peaceful |
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Mobbing in Academia
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Italiano Steps Down |
2005 Wages of Big Labor Bosses $239,106 Average |
| Buy American (all over again) |
Andy Stern, the New Boss |
| UAW Shrinks as Membership Retires |
SEIU Threatens California Strike |
| Failed Solidarity: The ICFTU, AFL-CIO, ILO, and ORIT in Haiti |
U.A.W. Facing Tough Choices, Leader Warns |
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| AFL-CIO to invest $700 million in Big Easy rebuilding projects |
Union dissidents wage lonely battle
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| A.F.L.-C.I.O. Files a Trade Complaint Against China's Labor Practices |
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| No Retreat, No Surrender (They Hope) |
The AFL-CIO’s Second Century |
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NYC schoolbus drivers demand action against indicted officers
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| GM Builds Plant In Mexico |
I can pay one half the working class to guard the other |
| UAW says it's open to help ailing Ford |
AFL-CIO Embraces Immigrants In Pact With Day-Laborer Group |
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| Ford buyout plan chills UAW locals |
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Kim Scipes: The AFL-CIA and Venezuela |
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| NYC labor honcho indicted |
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| SEIU: Party Central |
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School Bus Drivers Angered by Corruption in Union |
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| US Army might break Goodyear strike |
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2005
| In These Times: The Fight for Labor's Future: 2005 |
Union membership drops again 2005 |
Labor Leaders Reject Rival Plan to Shift More Money to Organizing
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AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Help Develop Bush's Foreign Policy, Target Foreign Unions for Political Control |
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| CTA Dumps Big Bucks In LA Mayor Campaign, Battles AFL-CIO |
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United Can Dump Pension Plans, Bankruptcy Judge Says
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Can a 'Third Way' Save the AFL-CIO from Break-Up and Open Warfare?
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American Labor Studies Center |
Labor Educator
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Labor Splits Open |
90% of Solidarity Center’s Annual Budget
Comes from Payoffs by U.S. Government |
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A More Perfect Union
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DC 37 backs Billionaire Bloomberg |
| Staughton Lynd’s remarks on Solidarity Unionism |
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| Top 10 Problems with the Current Debate in the Labor Movement |
AFL-CIO CONVENTION CALLS FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ |
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| AFL-CIO conference passes pro-war resolution |
Let the Raiding Begin
SEIU Splits, Hits Afscme |
Corzine Gave $470,000 Loan to Head of Union
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David Bacon on the Union War
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WHAT THE I. W. W. IS |
| Fiery airline mechanics go it alone
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Labor takes hit as solidarity split |
Unions, Bosses, and Feds Work Together to Smash Northwest Strike |
Dozens Hurt After China Factory Protest |
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| Boeing Machinists Vote to Strike |
US HSA Unions: We'll be Fascists, Just Give Us A Contract
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The AFL-CIO and the Iraq war |
| Ex-Teamsters official convicted in union election swindle |
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UFCWA Forces Another Vote On Detroit Sellout Contract
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27th Annual North American Labor History Conference |
The United Association for Labor Education |
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4th Union Quits A.F.L.-C.I.O. in a Dispute Over Organizing
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Anna Burger to Head Breakaway Labor Group
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GM/UAW Gut Retiree Health Care, Plan 25,000 Layoffs, To Spin Off GMAC |
| U.S. Labor Is in Retreat as Global Forces Squeeze Pay and Benefits |
TOM WALSH: GM retirees bear brunt of deal |
Union Offers Details of Health Deal With G.M.
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UAW Maneuvers to Halt Retiree Suits on Benefit Sellout
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Demands for Labor Givebacks Grow More Aggressive; Union Leaders Increasingly Must Push for Concessions In Wake of GM-UAW Pact
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| NYU GRAD AIDES WALK |
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UAW Lost Another 30,000 Members in 2004 |
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Ralphs indicted on federal charges in 2003 SoCal grocery strike |
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Uniquely Aggrieved, and Empowered, Union Digs in Again |
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| WORKERS DISPUTE UAW VOTE: Some threaten to appeal Ford health care deal's slim win |
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| Rouge
blast will be among costliest |
Honda
plant threatens UAW |
State, Ford at
odds in probe:
Rouge
workers worried about safety before blast |
Another Rouge suit
filed:
Injured
worker says maintenance neglected |
INTERNATIONALLY-
RECOGNISED CORE LABOUR STANDARDS IN THE UNITED STATES:
REPORT FOR
THE WTO GENERAL COUNCIL REVIEW OF THE TRADE POLICIES OF THE UNITED
STATES |
Pay
Gap Between Workers and Bosses Explodes |
| Ford
Rouge Fined For Deadly Explosion |
Americans
Work Longest Hours |
Labor
Unions and the Net |
| Corruption
in AFSCME DC37 |
Bosses
in Non-Profits Steal the Milk Money |
California
Labor History Outline |
| Rouge
Meltsdown Again |
Ex-Teamster
official convicted |
Another
Worker Hurt at Rouge |
| UAW Members
Reject Lordstown Contract |
Lawsuit
for Dead Worker, Ford Says "All Lies" |
Another
Fire at the Rouge |
Ford
Paid 8,000$ Bonus to Living Workers in 2000
Saved
the money by Killing a Few Others |
AFSCME
Gangsters |
UAW
Attacks Unionist to Cover Up Rouge Blast |
| AFL-CIO
Wants your vote (ie, money and mind) |
USA: Major Work
Stoppages 1999 |
Ex-Teamsters
Official Sentenced to 3 Years |
| UAW Lost 10%
in 1999 |
UAW Probed for
More Corruption
While
the Real Corruption is Untouched |
IWW
How to Organize
a Union |
| Historiography
of the IWW |
Bogus Low
Wage Unionism: The Facts Behind the Justice For Janitors Campaign |
AFCME/SEIU/TEAMSTER
Corruption |
| rouge
blows up again |
AFL-CIO
Hits New Membership Low in 2000 |
Teamster
Dilema: The I.S.' Gangster, or the Gangster? |
| Autoworkers
Sue The UAW |
UAW Loses
Another 10% of its Members |
More
AFSCME OFFICERS Stealing |
Staughton Lynd
On Union Reform
AN OPEN LETTER
TO RANK-AND-FILE LABOR ACTIVISTS |
UAW Racketeers
Running Company Union? |
Corrupt UAW
Buys off Itself |
| UAW
Investigation Part 3 |
The UAW and
for-profit Radio
What a
Tangled Web |
Jo
Labadie and His Gift to Michigan |
| AFL-CIO
backs Oil Drilling in Alaska . |
U.S.
Labor History: Research Institutions |
UAW Bids
On Palm Springs Resort |
| Teamsters
Get Cozy with Republicans, again |
UAW Crushed in
Nissan Vote (unions Section) |
National
Guard Scabbed on Minnesota Strike |
| The
Rebellion in Los Angeles |
To Rebuild Is
Not Enough
(On the LA
Crisis) |
Child
Labor |
| Robin
Kelley Interviews Herbert Aptheker on History (1) |
Robin
Kelley Interviews Herbert Aptheker on History (2) |
Rose
Freedman, Last Survivor of Triangle Fire, Dies at 107 |
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Guard
Scabbed on Minnesota Strike |
Death
on the Job, 5915 in 2000 |
Mike Quinn on
the San Francisco General Strike |
How
Industrial Unionism Was Won:
THE GREAT FLINT SIT-DOWN STRIKE AGAINST GM 1936-37
by Walter Linder |
The
Press and the San Francisco General Strike |
Tire Workers Make
Concessions, Lose Jobs and Pensions |
| Unions
Unfit to Meet Attacks on Workers |
2002:
Union Size Stagnates |
As
Far As
He Could See by Gregg Shotwell (a poem) |
| National
Endowment for Democracy Behind the Venezuela Coup |
Social
Democrats USA: Group Watch Report |
New UAW Boss
Profiled |
| Union
Boss Salary Figures For 2000 |
SF Labor
Council, Cowardly Retreat on the War |
Teamsters
Seize Northwest Local |
| The
Wheatland California Farmworker Rebellion |
Mexican-American
Organizing in California |
Feds
Threaten Military Scabs for Dock Strike |
| Working
People In California in the 1930's (WPA Guide) |
UAW
Steve Yokich Dies, Not a Single Worker Quoted in Memorials |
Labor
History Timeline |
| IWW
preamble |
Three
UAW Bosses Face Indictment |
UAW Bosses
Indicted For Scamming Workers |
| Gender
and Class in US Labor History |
Unions
go Republicans |
West Coast
Dock
strife could return as year end crisis (stratfor) |
| Dockworkers
Slowdown Boils Up |
Cornell
Grad students say no to the UAW by a wide margin |
The
Corporatization of the Unions by Jim Smith |
| Jane
Slaughter: Labor's Enron |
AFL-CIO
Salaries |
History
of the AFL-CIO "Leadership" |
| Mechanics
Reject
Union Sellout at United |
United,
the Union, and Machinists at Odds on Vote |
Calif
Prison Guards
Pay Off Legislators on Maui |
| United
Bankrupcy: why mechanics rejected givebacks |
Jim
Prickett: Communists and the Communist Issue in the American Labor
Movement, 1920-1950 |
First strike in
20 years against GE, one striker killed |
| US
Unions turning against war |
How to Get Your
Union Boss's Salary and Related Figures: Assoc. For Union
Democracy |
Forbes
Magazine on the State of the Unions |
| 2003: Union
Membership Drops Again |
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Palace
Coup at AFL-CIO
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Sweeney
Scabs on Anti-War Movement
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Ullilco
Scam Splits AFL-CIO Bosses
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UAW Backs
Move to Cut Pensions For Blue Collar Workers
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Labor's
Cold War
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Why America
Outpaces Europe (Clue: The God Factor)
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UAW
says it will fight health cuts
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More
Ford job cuts needed, execs told
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IWW SONGBOOK
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Holt Labor
Library
-- Labor Studies and Radical History
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Analysis
of the Chrysler Bailout
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Firestorm
over foreign workers |
Vincent
Chin and the Chrysler Bailout
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UAW's Largest Local Faces Concessions
Bargaining
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| UAW Can't Organize the South, Or Anybody |
DaimlerChrysler
to pay $300 million to settle suit by investors over 1998 merge |
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The Victory of Speedup and Layoffs:
Productivity
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Characteristics Of
Minimum Wage Workers: Dept of Labor |
Workers
Pay 50% More for Health Care
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UAW Racketeer Sellout Finalizes Corporate
Unionism 2003 |
| Who Won What: Details of the UAW Sellout |
NYTimes Praises Corporate-State Unionism/UAW
Pact |
UAW Racketeers Agreed to Lose 50,000 Jobs
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The UAW Lied on Lost Jobs in the Contract
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The Flint Sit-Down
Strike Audio Gallery |
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Union Lied: Nothing In UAW Pact to Organize
Chrysler |
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General
strike in Italy |
Class Struggle 101 by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Wal-Martization
of the USA, or NY Times for cheap labor but not so bluntly |
UAW's Largest Local Makes Wage and Benefit
Concessions |
Staughton Lynd Against the AFL-CIO
A Speech to the Wobblies
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Brits'
Teacher Union Abandons Exam Boycott: Teachers Support the Big Tests |
| Grocery Bosses Shut Down Striker Health
Benefits |
Scab Nuckols Runs Show for Ralphs |
Teamsters
Decide to Scab, UFCW Begs to Make Concessions--Grocery Bosses Hammer
Down
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UFCW Bargains Massive Wage Cut in Detroit
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UAW Loses 1 Million Members, May Cut Staff
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Secret Concessions Talk Collapse,
Background on Grocery Strike |
Ca Prison Cops Hit By Judges Ruling |
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What for union racketeers after defeat of
Gephardt and Dean? |
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UAW Sell Outs Cut 3 Tier Wage Deal
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Background on the Grocery Strike
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| Grocery
Strike Sellout Pending |
Supermarkets,
Union Reach Tentative Pact |
Grocery
Union Racketeers SellOut Rank and File After 5 Month Strike |
Workers
Ratify Grocery Sellout
"Theyre all thieves, the bosses and the union..." |
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UAW
Sells Out Visteon-Ford Workers With Two-tier Wage System |
AFL-CIA
in Venezuela |
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US
and Canadian Auto Worker Unions Go To War Mimicking the Imperial Bosses |
UAW Drops to Lowest Numbers Since 1942
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| DC 37
Kneels to Two Tier Wage System |
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Union Critic at Sell Out Jeep Unit Attacked
with Brick and Bullets
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UAW Racketeers To Set Up Two Tier 7 Year
Deal at Delphi, Visteon
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Investigators
Quit Bogus Teamster Corruption Task Force |
Latino
Short-Haul Truckers Take Direct Action For Mayday in LA |
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The
Deadly Parallel: Comparing the IWW and the AFL in Wartime |
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UAW
Racketeers Fail Again at Toyota in 2004
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Cal Prison
Guards Unions Rules Jails |
CWA Cuts
Five Year Deal with SBC |
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UAW Slashes Staff--Budget In Crisis
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Chrysler
boss ; Union Boss |
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South African
Public Workers' Strike |
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SEIU
Boss Threatens AFL |
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Thieves
Fall Out: Stern Slugs Sweeney at AFL |
Flippy Guerrilla Street Theater |
| Stores,
Workers Still Feel Sting of Supermarket Labor Fight |
National Endowment for Death Squads and
AFL-CIO |
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