Some people love Twitter, some hate it, some use it constantly, some use it intelligently. One of the smartest uses of Twitter is talking place this Labor Day Weekend. American Rights at Work is organizing a Labor Day weekend tweetathon using #unionmember. By the way, Talking Union is on Twitter here. The # or hashtag [...]
CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers since the onset of the economic crisis took home 42 percent more pay in 2009 than their peers at S&P 500 firms, according to CEO Pay and the Great Recession, the 17th in a series of annual Executive Excess reports from the Institute [...]
by Joseph Riedel Solidarity. That was the message AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka sent in a statement welcoming the Laborers’ international Union of North America (LIUNA) back into the fold, after the organization announced on August 13, 2010, that it will rejoin the AFL-CIO, effective October 1, 2010. In his statement, Trumka said, “We are very [...]
by Amanda Tattersall In Power in Coalition, I argue that not all coalitions are made equal. While alliances between unions and community organizations are an important and useful strategy for social change, their power and success varies greatly depending on the strategic choices of those involved. The most successful coalitions are ones that seek to [...]
By David Green Over 10, 000 Detroiters marched down Washington Boulevard from the UAW-Ford National Programs Center to Grand Circus Park on Saturday, August 28th to demand jobs, peace, and justice. The march was organized by United Auto Workers (UAW) President Bob King and Operation PUSH founder and director Reverend Jesse Jackson. It commemorated the [...]
Cover via Amazon Responding to the Great Recession: Book Reviews. by Duane Campbell The current Great Recession was created by finance capital and banking, mostly on Wall Street, ie. Chase Banks, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, AIG, and others. Finance capital owned the banks, and they robbed the banks through investment and trading schemes including [...]
by Arieh Lebowitz August 19th, NYC: The Jewish Labor Committee joined nearly 100 people at a demo in front of a newly opened Trader Joe’s store in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, to inform consumers about the human rights abuses against farm workers harvesting the tomatoes sold by the company, and to demand that the company sign [...]
by Leo Casey This post originally appeared on Dissent’s Arguing the World blog. In upstate New York, a bitter strike between Mott’s Apple Juice and its production workers has become the latest battle against the “race to the bottom,” the process of undercutting labor market standards that has plagued American labor for the last three [...]
by Richard Negri Someone sent me an email earlier entitled, “U.S. Senate Declares National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week.” The big week of recognition is slotted to begin September 12th. In the announcement for “Recognition Week,” Senator Ben Nelson says, “Direct support professionals provide an invaluable service to the millions of Americans living with disabilities. [...]
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