Scott Marshall

Scott has been a life long trade unionist and was active in rank and file reform movements in the Teamsters, Machinists and Steelworkers unions in the 1970s and '80s. He was co-chair of the Save Our Jobs committee of USWA local 1834 at Pullman Standard in Chicago and active in nationwide organizing against plant shutdowns and layoffs. He was a founder of the unemployed organization Jobs or Income Now (Join), in Chicago, and the National Congress of Unemployed Organizations in the 1980s. Scott remains active in SOAR (Steelworkers Active Organized Retirees). He lives in Chicago.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Scott Marshall

Labor

Honeywell lockout threatens thousands in Illinois and Kentucky
January 21, 2011 By Scott Marshall
United Steelworkers local 7-669 and the Steelworkers international Union issued a well researched report this week outlining the health and safety hazards posed by the use of scab replacement workers to operate Honeywell's Metropolis Illinois plant.
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Opinion

Martin Luther King Jr. and the attack on public workers
January 17, 2011 By Scott Marshall
As we celebrate the life and historic contributions of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, public workers are under fierce attack across the country.
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Opinion

Public workers in the bull’s-eye
January 5, 2011 By Scott Marshall
Taking advantage of the economic crisis, the Republicans and Wall Street have placed public workers in the bull's-eye of their attack.
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U.S.

Stopping a Chicago eviction
December 6, 2010 By Scott Marshall
CHICAGO - The Tellez family are vowing not to be evicted from their Northwest Side home, and Alvaro Tellez says he is fighting for his children and their future.
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Opinion

Government wage freeze — a bad idea
November 30, 2010 By Scott Marshall
Obama announced his proposal for a two year wage freeze for all non-military government workers. The proposal is a terrible idea. It's bad for the economy and feeds into racist, anti-worker stereotypes of the "lazy" public...
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Labor

Republican attack on labor goes way beyond Congress
November 24, 2010 By Scott Marshall
During the Great Depression, big business used the crisis to attack workers' wages and living standards directly, cutting wages even while turning big profits. And exactly the same thing is happening again.
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Labor

Republicans target labor
November 16, 2010 By Scott Marshall
Before the dust had settled on the 2010 elections, the Chamber of Commerce, the corporate-secret-donor political action committees and the far right began to move into attack mode against the labor movement. After all, they expect...
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U.S.

Unemployed rally in Chicago after elections
November 10, 2010 By Scott Marshall
The Chicago Unemployed Workers Council, a project of Chicago Jobs with Justice, staged a jobs demonstration last Friday to coincide with the release of unemployed figures for October.
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