Labor
Trade unions to G20: Half measures will not fix broken global economy
March 24, 2009Brussels, 23 March 2009 (ITUC OnLine): In a worldwide push for action by G20 governments to pull the global economy out of recession and chart a new course for job creation, financial regulation and global governance,...
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Report from the front: Workers arrested as factory assets auctioned off
March 22, 2009Reposted from rifuture.org A dozen workers from the Colibri jewelry plant in East Providence, Rhode Island were arrested today as their plant’s assets were auctioned off by a State appointed receiver. As bidders drove into the...
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Unionists protest big bonuses to bad execs
March 21, 2009WASHINGTON (PAI) — Chanting and waving signs saying that it’s time to “take back our economy” for workers, unionists in Washington and dozens of other cities nationwide spent March 19 protesting big bonuses to lousy executives.
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CWA members welcome Obamas Middle Class Task Force to St. Cloud plant
March 21, 2009ST. CLOUD, Minn. (PAI) — Members of Communications Workers of America Local 7304 welcomed Vice President Joseph Biden and members of the Obama administration’s Middle Class Task Force” for a town hall meeting March 19 at...
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Wal-Mart forced to bargain, finally, with Texas meat cutters
March 21, 2009JACKSONVILLE, Texas (PAI) — It took almost nine years, a National Labor Relations Board ruling and several court orders, but Wal-Mart was finally forced to bargain with its unionized meat cutters in Texas. Talks opened in...
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