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Friday, April 23 at 1:00pm
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Labor Notes Troublemaker Blogging: How Dare You, Transit Striker!
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Hey, did you hear about the World Series fans that were nearly stranded in South Philadelphia due to a transit shutdown? Probably. See any stories on striking drivers or mechanics, or their struggles to endure? Probably not. The pressure on the union during Philadelphia's transit strike is relentles...
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Troublemakers of the world, uniting: http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2009/11/
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Chicago saw an unusual meeting of the minds last week between two groups of workers who have taken extraordinary steps when faced with a plant closing.
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While Congress and health care executives played political volleyball with health care reform, workers at SK Hand Tools in Chicago took matters into their own hands.
Labor Notes Hotel workers strike in San Francisco
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Hotel workers Grand Hyatt Union Square in San Francisco walked off the job, announcing a three-day strike. The action comes during a major push at the city's hotels, where union workers are fighting a host of concession demands in citywide talks.
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http://labornotes.org/blogs/2009/11/rank
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The two newest additions to the Chicago teachers pension fund trustees come from a rank-and-file movement inside the Chicago Teachers Union, the first time that incumbents who were members of the ruling caucus in the CTU lost their seats to a reform group.
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From the Troublemakers Blog:
www.labornotes.org/blogs/2009/11/delta-a
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It may soon become much easier for workers in the airline and railroad industries to form unions, and the most immediate impact may come at Delta Air Lines.
Labor Notes Postal Unions Battle Cuts to Jobs, Service, http://www.labornotes.org/node/2522
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The Postal Service, in a financial crunch that threatens both jobs and service to the public, is looking to Congress for help. If postal unions want to avoid the auto workers’ fate, they need to find allies and make their case publicly.
Labor Notes Monday's blogging: "Asking for concessions while telling the world of your profitability simply isn’t smart."
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Looking at Ford's increased sales and profits, workers at the company rejected giving back more from their contract. Media should be applauding union members for doing something they have not done in over 30 years – voting against the wishes of their top union leaders.
Labor Notes From Friday's blog: reform slate headed by an under 30-year old wins in Teamsters Local 814.
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“It’s time to close the concessions stand," said the New Directions Slate, and members of Teamsters Local 814 in New York City agreed—they’ve just voted 406-154 for a reform slate headed by Jason Ide and Richie Johnson.
Labor Notes What lean production is for workers...from day 2 of the new Labor Notes blog.
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The Internet can make for some truly random points of contact. Under normal circumstances rabble-rousing labor journalists/activists rarely inhabit the same room as management efficiency gurus--let alone exchange words.
Labor Notes USLAW Sets Its Sights on Afghanistan: http://www.labornotes.org/node/2515
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U.S. Labor Against the War is preparing for its third national assembly in December as the original motivation for its founding—the Iraq war—is winding down to a more limited but permanent presence. No worries that the nearly seven-year-old USLAW coalition has outlived its usefulness, though: delega...
Labor Notes Check out today's web story on Labor Notes' brand-new redesigned website! See www.labornotes.org and let us know what you think.
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As dozens of contracts with hotel giants Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, and Starwood expired in three cities in late summer, UNITE HERE launched another round of battles over health care, pay, and working conditions. ...
Labor Notes From the Troublemaker's Blog: http://www.labornotes.org/node/2529
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Andy Stern and Rich Trumka, together again. Both the AFL-CIO and Change to Win backed a big protest rally outside the American Bankers Association conference in Chicago October 27. Photo: Jim West
Labor Notes Philly Guards Win! http://labornotes.org/node/2513
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Seventeen years after security guards at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art lost their union in a Democratic mayor’s privatization spree, they joined students and a tireless Jobs with Justice chapter to beat long odds and vote in an independent union in October.
Labor Notes New link for update on Mexican electrical workers: http://labornotes.org/node/2521
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Leaders of the besieged Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) are calling on other unions throughout Mexico to mount a national strike to force the government to revoke its liquidation of the Light and Power Company. ...
