PEOPLES HEALTH
Putting “the coal industry in charge” of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is leading to dangerous conditions for the nation’s coal miners, United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts told lawmakers at a Jan. 23 Senate committee hearing on the Sago, W.Va. mining disaster.
Labor Update
Boeing grounded for third week AFSCME, SEIU sign pact Toast the Farmworkers Steelworkers vote ‘no’ 140-0 International support for NYU union Unite Here leaves AFL-CIO
LABOR UPDATE
Conyers to speak at Boston hearing on health care crisis. Meet me in St. Louis. Break time at last. Steel solidarity.
B.D. AmisBlack Communist & labor leader
While little known today, during the late 1920s and the 1930s, B.D. Amis was one of a small cadre of African Americans leading the fight for workers’ rights and racial justice. Urbane in demeanor and a dynamic speaker, he was one of the most important Black activists of his time. His commitment was to the working class and, in particular, the Black working class.
Colombia deports 4 unionists
Aidan White, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, condemned the Colombian government last week for deporting four senior international trade unionists from the international airport in Bogotá in early November.
Venezuelan unionists champion democracy
NEW YORK – New York’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU) hosted a panel discussion of Venezuelan labor leaders here May 26. The delegation included leading members of the Venezuelan Transport Workers, Public Service Workers, Grain and Food Workers, Health Care Workers and Teachers unions, all affiliates of the National Union of Workers (UNT).
Labor says: Create more jobs: fire Bush!
WASHINGTON – About 1,000 Machinist union members marched from Capitol Hill to a rally near the White House May 12 to demand jobs with benefits and to cheer calls for the ouster of George W. Bush Nov. 2.
LABOR UPDATE
No security for IMF security guards / Tilt! / Caterpillar-UAW talks extended / Calif. teachers hit NED funding / Student-labor unity in St. Louis / Support building in Congress for EFCA
Jobs report not so rosy
In Ohio, one of the presidential battleground states, the news that the economy created 308,000 new jobs last month was met with a healthy dose of working-class skepticism.
