Airlines on Final Approach to Monopoly of the Skies

By Carl Finamore The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, April 29 that United Airlines (UAL) is very likely to soon announce their merger with Continental Airlines, making it the world’s largest airline by number of passengers carried. UAL is the nation’s third-largest airline while Continental is number four. If actually successful, the single carrier [...]

Global Unions May Day Message

Jobs, Justice and Public Service – Getting the Economy to Work Global Unions, the voice of the global labour movement,  issued the following statement to mark May 1st 2010: On today of all days trade unionists around the world demand fresh steps to reform the global economy in favour of social justice, investment in jobs and [...]

Make Wall Street Pay

Watch the union movement’s March on Wall Street today.http://aflcio.org/wallstreet Richard Trumka: So now we learn that as millions of America’s families were losing their homes, Goldman Sachs cheered because it stood to make huge money betting on a housing market gone bad. Is that Wall Street’s vision of American values? It’s not mine. And it’s [...]

The Fiscal Crises of the States: Neoliberalism’s Next Terrain of Struggle, and Ours

By Michael Hirsch Social peace as corporate America’s prescription for sound labor relations was always more mist than material, but even that fog lifted after the Reagan Administration destroyed the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization in 1981. The PATCO attack declared open season on union hunting, leading to a radical shrinking of union density in the private [...]

Wooster aims to become “sweat-free” campus

By Alexandra DeGrandchamp Senior Staff Writer, The Wooster Voice The Wooster Democratic Socialists is actively campaigning across campus to affiliate The College of Wooster with the Workers Rights Consortium. According to Celeste Tannenbaum ’13, the WRC is a labor-rights organization that investigates collegiate apparel suppliers to ensure fair labor standards are instituted across the globe. [...]

Arizona conflict and immigration law

Activists Face Tough Choices on Immigrant Rights By Randy Shaw In April 2006, immigrant rights supporters took to the streets in an unprecedented public demand for legislation that would protect 8-12 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. The marches were followed by two national elections in which anti-immigrant Republican Congress members were defeated for re-election by [...]

Strategic Research Summer School at Cornell

The AFL-CIO and Cornell University are sponsoring a Strategic Corporate Research Summer School on June 13-18, 2010 in Ithaca, New York. The course (credit or non-credit) is designed for undergrad and grad students who are interested in working as union researchers and campaigners. The application deadline is May 1. Credit scholarships are available. To obtain [...]

Too big to fail is too big to exist

13 Bankers. The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.  (2010.) Johnson and Kwak. Reviewed by Duane Campbell The currently proposed reforms of Wall Street by the Obama Administration are too limited.   To protect our society we need to: 1.     Re-establish the Glass Steagal act of 1933 which separates savings banks from commercial banks. [...]

March for California’s Future reaches Sacramento

by Duane Campbell. The March for California’s Future covered in prior posts on Talking Union  arrived at the California State Capitol on April 21, 2010. Over 8,000 teachers and other public workers  demonstrated in support of  the marchers and for a fair tax system to respond to the economic crisis.  Eight  marchers  walked over 300 [...]

Union Summer Application Deadline is May 7

What are you doing with your summer? The Union Summer for Jobs Internship is a 10-week educational internship to participate in and develop skills useful for union organizing drives and other campaigns for workers’ rights and social justice. Union Summer is a ten week educational internship in which participants are introduced to the labor movement.  [...]