worker rights
World Notes: Brazil, Turkey, Laos – and more
April 28, 2011Some 80,000 workers stopped work in mid March at hydroelectric plants, refineries, and electric generating facilities in "the biggest social protest by workers in many years," according to upsidedownworld.org.
Read moreRelocating production line to avoid union breaks labor law
April 25, 2011The NLRB says Boeing's decision to locate its second assembly line for its new model "Dreamliner" super-jumbo passenger plane in non-union South Carolina, and not in its unionized plants in the Pacific Northwest, breaks labor law.
Read moreVideo: “From Wisconsin to Washington, stand up for jobs, workers’ rights and peace”
April 16, 2011NEW YORK - The CPUSA held its First Annual Conference in New York City, today, April 16.
Read moreThousands at Michigan Capitol: We are the people
April 13, 2011A cross-section of the people's movement poured into the Michigan Capitol grounds today with this message: "We are the people - protect us, not the CEOs."
Read moreNews flash: Americans aren’t anti-worker
April 12, 2011Polls have found Wisconsin Gov. Walker's union-busting tactics to be widely unpopular despite the major media's presumption that the opposite would be true.
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