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March 22, 2004
Labor Roundup
Strikes, Organizing and Contract Negotiations
Nursing home unions grow in Florida.
Successful home health care organizing in Washington State by SEIU.
Mexican government encourages immigrant janitors to join union-led class action lawsuit against supermarket chains.
Washington State grocery workers prep for contract negotiation and possible strike. Clergy across region urge members to respect the picket lines.
Conflicting strategies by local airline attendant union leaders at US Airways.
Chicago hotel workers, along with other union workers, take pickets overseas to confront corporate opponents.
Trash workers joining Teamsters in Atlanta.
International journalists organization condemns union busting at CNN.
Grad student employees vote to unionize at University of Washington.
A transcript of a discussion on how Homeland Security is impacting labor rights for federal employees.
Federal judge ordered Sodexho Inc. to recognize and bargain with UNITE, citing numerous labor law violations at its Phoenix laundry plant.
Cincinnati’s Latino Immigrants Begin To Organize
Labor and Politics
AFL-CIO Executive Council plans three-prong strategy to expand right to organize, combining legislative advocacy, new organizer recruitment, and expanded cooperation between unions.
Firefighters union emerges as hot political player.
Jobs and the Economy
Killer Jobs: Mexican immigrant workers are dying in hazardous work across the country.
Trade and Labor
AFL-CIO on why When China Represses Workers’ Rights, U.S. Workers Lose Jobs. Analysis on union WTO charge by Business Week.
"Magical Mystery Tour" by student and labor activists highlight job losses in the Rust Belt.
US tech professional groups says coordinated national strategy needed to overcome "offshoring" of US tech jobs.
Pennsylvania proposes measure to require government contractors to employ US residents.
International Labor Conflicts
Lessons from Argentina- workers are taking over factories in that country in a remarkable response to that economy's collapse.
Burma government condemns 9 union activists to death for contacting the International Labor Organization.
China condemned for convicting labor activists to “re-education through labour” ranging from 12 to 21 months.
Teachers in Mosal in Iraq threaten strike over unpaid wages
Engineers in Egypt seek independent union.
Union Politics and Democracy
Exec Director of NYC AFSCME Council stripped of powers over internal power struggle at public employees umbrella union.
Rank-and-File Teamsters Campaign Against Pension Cuts
New Magazine Articles
How the Wagner Act Became a Management Tool- a historical analysis and political manifesto for change all in one.
The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements- review of new book on changes in the labor movement.
Posted by Nathan at March 22, 2004 06:51 PM
