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July 22, 2002
Labor Monday (7-22)
Roundup for July 22
"New Labour" Tony Blair has lost key union supporters, as a staunch union leader ally of the prime minister was ousted by a leftwing challenger, part of a wave of labor-left challenges to Blair's relationship with union funders of his party. See the BBC, The Scotsman, and The Guardian on the story.
Boston janitors at SEIU are mounting a new drive to expand organizing into the suburbs, a new militancy following a trusteeship of the Boston local a year ago.
NYU adjunct teachers voted to elect the United Auto Workers (UAW) as their union representatives.
The United Farm Workers organized workers at four Texas Catholic parishes, the first parishes in the country ever unionized.
A profile of Wal-Mart's unionbusting across the country.
The federal agency that guarantees the assets of pension funds for companies that go backrupt is unsuprisingly facing budget pressures as its reserves are drained by pension bailouts.
One consequence of the tech collapse is a new interest by tech workers in unionization.
An interesting analysis of the gains and limits of the UPS contract recently negotiated by the Teamsters.
Given Bush's killing of national ergonomic protections for injured workers, the battle has moved to the states, where in Washington State, a judge has rejected a challenge to that state's tough ergonomics rules.
An indepth feature on the community-church organizing that led to a union organizing victory among immigrant meatpackers at ConAgra in Omaha.
Most recent AFL-CIO Work in Progress on weekly organizing victories.
Posted by Nathan at July 22, 2002 08:28 AM
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