Labor

Dont steal the big box ordinance

September 8, 2006

CHICAGO — Despite a monthlong million-dollar campaign to scare residents into opposing the “big box” living wage ordinance passed by the City Council July 26, a new poll of Chicago voters shows overwhelming support for the...

Womens groups protest plan to downsize Womens Bureau

September 8, 2006

Several leading women’s organizations, including the Coalition of Labor Union Women, are vigorously protesting the latest scheme by GOP President George W. Bush and his Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to downsize and outsource much of her...

Gary teachers win nine-day strike

September 8, 2006 By Paul S. Kaczocha

GARY, Ind. — Meeting at the city’s largest high school on Sept. 1, 1,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 4 loudly and unanimously approved a new one-year contract that everyone agreed was a tremendous...

Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers

September 8, 2006 By Art Perlo

For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.

Standoff continues in Oaxaca, Mexico

September 7, 2006

After a brutal police attack against a radio and television station, a tense standoff continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where striking teachers and popular organizations are demanding that right-wing Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz...