Labor

                
  • Auto workers hit with one-two punch

    Auto workers hit with one-two punch

    December 2, 2005

    Delphi wage-cut scheme, GM plan to cut 30,000 DETROIT (PAI) — United Auto Workers members were hit with a one-two punch in late November as bankrupt Delphi Auto Parts disclosed its latest wage proposals — which...

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  • AFL-CIO clears way for solidarity charters

    AFL-CIO clears way for solidarity charters

    November 24, 2005

    WASHINGTON — Some details remain to be settled, but the AFL-CIO announced Nov. 16 that it will begin issuing “solidarity charters” to locals whose international unions recently disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO and joined the Change to...

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  • Autoworkers hit with one-two punch

    Autoworkers hit with one-two punch

    November 24, 2005

    Delphi wage cut scheme, GM layoff plan DETROIT (PAI) — United Auto Workers members were hit with a one-two punch in late November, as bankrupt Delphi Auto Parts disclosed its latest wage proposals — which would...

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  • Labor Update

    Labor Update

    September 23, 2005

    Boeing grounded for third week Production remains totally shut down at Boeing facilities across the U.S. as a strike of 18,000 aerospace workers enters its third week, according to Machinist Union spokesperson Connie Kelliher. Strikers are...

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  • EDITORIAL: Support the Northwest Airline strikers

    EDITORIAL: Support the Northwest Airline strikers

    August 26, 2005

    “If we had only stopped them at PATCO” became a common labor refrain in the union-busting years of the Reagan administration. Most in labor will now acknowledge that the lack of full labor solidarity was a...

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