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Friday, April 23 at 1:00pm
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Despite many expressions of support and much advocacy for a single-payer health plan, it hasn't captivated the country in the lengthy health care debate nor moved a bill through Congress. The onus is on single-payer supporters to “take a step back," an AFL staffer argued.
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Rank-and-file longshore workers pushed to reject a contract that top officials negotiated 10 months early, but longshore (ILA) members approved a two-year deal. "They scared these people to death," said Longshore Workers Coalition co-chair Leonard Riley. He noted that reform efforts are raising expe...
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Graduate employees wrapped up a two-day strike at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after the university agreed to the union's key demands. Strikers said it shows that assertive unions can turn back the erosion of conditions on campus.
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Labor Notes Conference 2008 all over again: http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2009/11/
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Attendees at an NUHW forum in Los Angeles had to pass a demonstration of a few hundred SEIU staffers and members who had arrived on buses. The SEIUers chanted, beat on drums, and threw eggs and water bottles in an unsuccessful effort to intimidate people from attending.
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Rank-and-file longshore workers are pushing to reject another contract, after sending top officials in the East Coast Longshoremen’s union back to the bargaining table in September. Bargaining still hasn't address members' biggest concerns, they say.
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Steelworkers at nickel giant Vale Inco’s operations in Sudbury and Voisey Bay in Canada have been on strike since July. After rejecting contracts calling for deep concessions, Steelworkers there find themselves in the midst of one of their largest battles in their history, and are taking their figh...
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Forty warehouse workers and their supporters picketed Wednesday in front of the Bissell distribution center in Joliet, Illinois, one of dozens of mammoth buildings that have sprung up off of I-55 south of Chicago. ...
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http://www.labornotes.org/2009/11/nation
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Tens of thousands of Mexican workers joined a national work stoppage on November 11 to pressure the Felipe Calderón government into reversing its seizure and liquidation of the Light and Power Company.
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Q: How does cutting sick leave for new hires solve your budget crisis? A: It doesn't. http://labornotes.org/blogs/2009/11/detr
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Detroit’s public sector workers have won a battle in a months-long war with Mayor Dave Bing. The recently re-elected mayor had threatened for a month to terminate contracts if city unions didn’t accept his proposed 26 furlough days—amounting to a 10 percent wage cut. ...
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Troublemakers Blog: antidote to the strike-bashing http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2009/11/
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We’ve known for a while now that the economic crisis has dampened the willingness of workers to head out on strike. That’s partly due to the business class and the corporate press, who take every opportunity to poison the atmosphere against rank and filers who dare to resist corporate demands.
Labor Notes Peanut butter on the tour bus: http://www.labornotes.org/node/2524
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The elegant on-stage evening dress worn by musicians in unionized symphony orchestras may be a lot more frayed than it looks from far away. The recession has killed or weakened many orchestras, and even ...
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.
