Students Speak Out this Week in Support of the Employee Free Choice Act

by the Student Labor Action Project with additional reporting by Adam Wright The broad coalition of workers, community, faith groups, notable economists, and legislators supporting the Employee Free Choice Act has gained another vocal and energized member: the student movement. Big business is spending millions on its campaign of misinformation on the Employee Free Choice [...]

The CNA/SEIU Accord: Statesmanship, Stab in the Back or Both?

by Paul Garver Duane Campbell’s comment on this blog references Steven Greenhouse’s article in the New York Times welcoming the alliance. Indeed we must applaud the decision by SEIU and the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) to bury the hatchet after years of negative campaigning against each other. Agreeing to work together to [...]

Palestine: Women Can Do It!

by Rannfrid Thelle “We don’t have time to wait for a social revolution”, say a group of fired-up Palestinian women of different ages.  For decades, Palestinian women have shared in the struggle for national liberation, and have put off the struggle for their rights as women to a time after they have a state. Lately, [...]

Kim Bobo Featured at Chicago’s 51st Debs-Thomas-Harrington Dinner

Kim Bobo, Executive Director of  Interfaith Workers Justice, will be the featured speaker at Chicago’s 51st Annual Debs – Thomas – Harrington Dinner.   Chicago Democratic Socialists of America is the sponsor  for the dinner.  The inner will be held on Friday evening, May 1st, at the Crowne Plaza Metro Chicago hotel, 733 W. Madison in [...]

April 2 Boston Demo Targets Bank of America

by David Duhalde Bank of America is one of the largest recipients of government bailout money and is using its funding to lobby against working people’s right to unionize. It is also foreclosing on homes and not allowing renters to stay even if it’s the landlords who are insolvent. As part of the Massachusetts Coalition [...]

The Demerger of UNITE HERE: Worse than a Messy Divorce?

by Paul Garver The break-up of the marriage of convenience between UNITE and HERE is over power within the relationship, over money and over custody (jurisdiction). The initial 2004 merger between a union facing decline in its garment sector but owning the Amalgamated Bank (UNITE), with a union with growing membership prospects but weak financial [...]

Sacramento March for Chávez, EFCA

More than 700 labor activists and youth marched through downtown Sacramento, California on Sat, March 28, in honor of César Chávez and to demand passage of the Employee Free Choice Act and a fair immigration proposal. California and six other states recognize and celebrate a César Chávez holiday for workers on the anniversary of his [...]

César Chávez: Organizing

By Duane E. Campbell The spirit of César Chávez lives on in the struggle for union rights and justice in the fields of California. Along with Dolores Huerta, Philip Vera Cruz, and others, César created the United Farm Workers (UFW), the first successful union of farm workers in U.S. history. There had been more than [...]

Justice for Farmworkers

On Tuesday, March 31st, Jerry Cohen (UFW General Counsel from 1967-1981) and LeRoy Chatfield will announce a national initiative called LABOR JUSTICE that will seek to reverse 74 years of government-sanctioned racial and economic discrimination directed at farmworkers and domestics because of their exclusion from the protections of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. So [...]

Labor Film Festival, Worker Support Key WSU Student Labor Week of Action

by Stuart Elliott The Young Democratic Socialists chapter at Wichita State University is planning an array of exciting events for the 2009 Student Labor Week of Action. In 2008, WSU students participated in the national campaign organized by Jobs with Justice for the first time.  This year, Campus Progress and other campus groups are joining [...]