Posted on April 30, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Barbara Ehrenreich has been arguing that the left and the Democratic Party ought to be paying attention to the travails and protests of the truckers. She blogged today about the protest in DC.
Three truckers – two white and one black – speak about their dwindling livelihoods and the need for immediate government action to [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Struggling to make ends meet while working in the wealthiest corporate headquarters…
Concerned about the effect of corporate giant ARAMARK’s business practices in New York and in communities across the nation, non-union ARAMARK workers at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Citigroup cafeterias will be joined on April 22 by striking ARAMARK workers from Bank of New York and CBS [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
By David Morrill Schlitt
On March 24, despite having reached an agreement on ten out of twelve of the articles in the contract for graduate student instructors (GSIs), the University of Michigan’s bargaining team walked away from the table-three hours before our contract was set to expire. We in U-M’s Graduate Employees Organization (GEO - AFT [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2008 by dcampbell1
Chicano Students rally to almond workers’ cause
The nation’s largest Chicano student group brought some 400 students protestors on March 21,2008. to the Sacramento plant in support of the Blue Diamond workers’ long fight to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
Since its founding in [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
New York, NY: Clergy members will lead a special blessing of the Aramark workers at PricewaterhouseCoopers for their sacrifice and struggle for justice at a 3:30 o.m. rally on March 19 at 300 Madison Avenue. Easter lilies and daffodils will be handed to participants, as their beauty embodies the tradition [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
by Mike Hirsch
Cafeteria workers taking on Aramark, the food service giant that pays starvation wages to fatten rich corporate executives, were joined in front of Wall Street’s First Bank of New York today by a giant inflatable animal. No, it wasn’t the looming, fanged, ubiquitous rat that New York City [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Teachers in Puerto Rico walked off the job on February 21, Michael Hirsch wrote about the background a week before the strike. Talking Union will have an update in the near future.
“Underpaid and dissed, Puerto Rico’s teachers may walk out in defiance of anti-strike ban”
Michael Hirsch
New York Teacher
Feb 14, 2008
After two years [...]
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