Unions march for health care in Philly
PHILADELPHIA – A cold wind and April showers failed to dampen the spirits of Service Employees Local 36 and Healthcare and Hospital Workers Union Local 1199C and their supporters who participated in the Family March for Healthcare Reform here on April 17
Steelworkers win humane merger
The future of 8,600 steelworker families and tens of thousands of retirees at National Steel was resolved this week.
Dead and injured remembered in Texas
TYLER, Texas – On April 26, a bell tolled here for workers who had been killed on the job during the past year. Leaders of the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) read a name, then waited for the sad, piercing song of the bell, then read another name. The bell rang more than 40 times while the crowd of 300 silent unionists attending a Workers Memorial Day commemoration stood silently in remembrance of the dead, the injured and to rededicate themselves to ending workplace tragedies.
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The call for a shorter workweek with no cut in pay arises periodically in the working class, their trade unions and among labor and progressive economists. What generally gives rise to those calls is sharp increases in joblessness underscored by long-term sustained unemployment for millions of workers.
Union-busting, war profiteering: a corporate tie
News Analysis Many Americans had never heard of Stevedoring Services of America (SSA), until it was awarded a $4.8 million contract to open and operate the port of Umm Qasr in war-torn Iraq.
ILWU convenes with eye on future battles
The experiences of a hard-fought contract battle against a gang up that included the Pacific Maritime Association, a coalition of retailers and the Bush administration will loom large in the minds of delegates to 32nd Convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), April 28 – May 2, as they map strategy for the coming year.
Teamsters beat anti-union campaign
CLEVELAND – In a powerful display of unity, union salt miners have twice in three weeks beaten back an effort, led by the head of David Duke’s local white supremacist organization, to decertify the Teamsters at Cargill Corp.’s facility beneath Lake Erie.
Labor slams Oakland police
OAKLAND, Calif. – Accusing the Oakland Police Department of acting as “private security guards for multi-national corporations,” delegates to the Alameda County Central Labor Council (CLC) unanimously condemned the April 7 police attack on anti-war demonstrators and longshore workers at the docks, here. Community outrage is also mounting after new revelations of collusion between the police, employers and possibly the Bush administration’s Office of Homeland Security, surfaced.
Oakland to probe police brutality
OAKLAND, Calif. – After an outraged cross section of Oakland residents took to the streets on April 26 to protest and then made their case at an emotionally charged hearing, the Oakland City Council voted 7-1 on April 29 to hire an independent panel to investigate the unprovoked police attack on peaceful anti-war demonstrators and on dock workers waiting to go to work April 7. Dozens of protestors and nine workers, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), were injured when police opened fire using wooden dowels, rubber bullets and concussion grenades.
ILWU: Dump Bush in 2004
SAN FRANCISCO – Delegates to the 32nd Convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), celebrated their recent contract victory and targeted the 2004 elections as the next major battle facing their members.
