Labor, Unions, and Social Change

Labor, Unions, and Social Change
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2008

2007

2006

Transit Union Dissidents Urge Members to Reject Contract	What Labor Cannot Say	Protesters lash out against wage cuts
Batay Ouvriye's Smoking Gun: The 100,000 NED Grant	Criticism of Cesar Chavez Compiled in Links: Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots "Cesar Chavez's Fall From Grace", /Village Voice/. Part 1, August 14, 1984 Part 2, August 21, 1984	United Farm Workers Leave AFL-CIO
WORKING CLASS VIDEOS — MOVIES & DOCUMENTARIES (*INCLUDING LABOR VIDEOS)	Northwest Gets Another Concession Contract from Union	Michael Yates" The trouble with Chavez: a union is not a 'movement
NYC transit workers reject contract by margin of 7 votes	Kim Scipes on the AFLCIO in Haiti and Beyond	Unions kept pace with growing U.S. workforce in 2005
UAW Responds To 30000 Ford Layoffs	Laid Off Ford Workers to Get Paid	Unions Hire the Homeless to Serve as Picketers
Unions Hire Temps to Picket	SEIU gives members to Mass. Teachers' Assn.	Center for Union Facts (a corporate sponsored site)
Two Trade Unions Break Away From Alliance	UAW pushes 'Marshall Plan' for auto industry	Michigan Carpenter Union Bosses Convicted
Prison guards lock up bundle in OT pay	F.B.I., in Bid-Rigging Inquiry, Raids Offices of Labor Leader	SEIU-CSEA California Dues War
SEIU's Stern champions union reforms in the new economy	Salt of the Earth -- movie available for downloading online	UAW and GM Bosses Battle Auto Retirees to Cut Health Benefits
Twenty five years too late..............maybe thirty.......... Concessions spark UAW bickering	Employers Sharply Criticize Shift in Unionizing Method to Cards From Elections	Union Chief Will Seek New Vote on Rejected Transit Contract
Labor Films Library of Congress	WSW on the AFL Split	Interview of Robert Fitch , author of Solidarity for Sale
Marx' Reserve Arny of Labor Goes Global	The Spectacle of Labor at the Trough	SEIU and Catholic Church Lobby to Halt Mayday Actions
UAW takes cooperative stance	Lenin On Taylorism and Science	Unionists Challenge AFL-CIO-CIA Foreign Policy
May Day Rallies Are Mostly Peaceful	James Green on Haymarket and Mayday	SDS and "Fist-ory"
Mobbing in Academia	Italiano Steps Down	2005 Wages of Big Labor Bosses $239,106 Average
Immigrants, Other Minorities Must Find Unity	Buy American (all over again)	Andy Stern, the New Boss
Counterpunch On Immigrant Rights	UAW Shrinks as Membership Retires	SEIU Threatens California Strike
The Laborers' Union and the Mob	Failed Solidarity: The ICFTU, AFL-CIO, ILO, and ORIT in Haiti	U.A.W. Facing Tough Choices, Leader Warns
Somber Tone and Protest as U.A.W. Convenes	U.A.W. to Begin Drive to Recruit New Workers	UAW Calls for Federal Aid to Auto Bosses
Detroit News Analysis of UAW 2006	AFL-CIO to invest $700 million in Big Easy rebuilding projects	Union dissidents wage lonely battle
The New Face of Solidarity	A.F.L.-C.I.O. Files a Trade Complaint Against China's Labor Practices	HOW THE UNIONS KILLED THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT
UAW dissenters speak out	No Retreat, No Surrender (They Hope)	The AFL-CIO’s Second Century
Line of March on the Labor Aristocracy Part One	47,600 Take Offer Of Buyouts	Labor Films
Delphi Hires 2000 Temps	UAW Strike Fund At One Billion Dollars For A Union that Cannot Strike	LaborTalk: Can Teamsters Run Major Campaigns?
DETROIT AFSCME URGES MORE PAY CUTS CONCESSIONS	Anti-Granholm ad taps Nazi images	NYC schoolbus drivers demand action against indicted officers
Delphi top execs get more bonuses	GM Builds Plant In Mexico	I can pay one half the working class to guard the other
Gov.'s Healthcare Summit Reveals Union Divisions	UAW says it's open to help ailing Ford	AFL-CIO Embraces Immigrants In Pact With Day-Laborer Group
EIA on the AFT Bosses	UAW Sells Out Retiree Health Care	UAW Lets Ford Gut Retiree Health Care Ford Builds Plant in Mexico
Members for Change	Ford buyout plan chills UAW locals	AFL-CIO’s 10-Union Organizing Structures Have Built-in Obstacles that Limit Success
UAW Sellouts Have Workers Fighting For Ten Bucks an Hour	Chinese Union Will Unionize All Wal-Mart Outlets	Documents reveal details of U.S. aid stirring suspicion in Venezuela
Sweeney Took Huge Payoffs from Former Local For 13 Years While Serving as SEIU President	Michigan Prefers Optional Union Dues	AFL To Waste $40 million on Democrats
Another UAW Strike Collapses	LaborTalk: A Conspiracy of Silence to Suppress One of Labor’s Worst Scandals	UAW Bans Marines
LaborTalk: Unions Add New Millions for Organizing, But Will It Result in Winning Campaigns?	Carpenter Union Boss Off To Jail	Kim Scipes: The AFL-CIA and Venezuela
UAW Strike Drags on 6 Months	US Supreme Court Hands BackPay to Detroit Newspaper strikers	LaborTalk: Volunteers Need Better ‘Talking Points’ Voters
Brian McLaughlin, NYC Central Labor Hack, Indicted for More Criminal Theft	NYC labor honcho indicted	A UNION CHIEF WHO THINKS LIKE MANAGEMENT
AFL Gangsters Seek to Cover NY Boss' Crimes	SEIU: Party Central	CTW’s Tight Control by Seven Male Leaders
Andy Stern: Changing How America Works (really?)	Open Letter to Institute of Policy Studies	School Bus Drivers Angered by Corruption in Union
ICFTU Replaced by a New Global Labor Organization	The Enigma of Andy Stern 2: Stern's NUP Plan to Reform Labor Follows Corporate Model and Flops	The Enigma of Andy Stern 3: Andy Stern Brashly Split the AFL-CIO In a Reckless Gamble He’d Do Better
The Enigma of Andy Stern 4: Stern’s ‘Change to Win’ Has Serious Flaws; Why He Can’t Achieve His Big-Time Goals	The Enigma of Andy Stern 5: Stern Hopes to Make A Partnership Deal Between Labor and Corporate America	Ford: 38,000 UAW members take buyouts
The Enigma of Andy Stern 6: Stern’s Book Places Him in New Role For ‘Getting America Back on Track’	Bob King Urges Members to Quit Ford	AFL-CIO Leaders Fail to Denounce Stern on Health Care & Pensions
LaborTalk: Stern Tells Bosses to Drop Health-Care Plans; Millions of Workers Could Lose Coverage	US Army might break Goodyear strike	UAW Set to Give More Concessions to Chrysler
Goodyear, Steelworkers Union Reach Tentative Deal	Photos From The Rouge

2005

In These Times: The Fight for Labor's Future: 2005	Union membership drops again 2005	Labor Leaders Reject Rival Plan to Shift More Money to Organizing
Working Life---Notes On Labor Today	AFL-CIO Foreign Policy Leaders Help Develop Bush's Foreign Policy, Target Foreign Unions for Political Control	United Association for Labor Education
CTA Dumps Big Bucks In LA Mayor Campaign, Battles AFL-CIO	Scipes on US Labor, NED, CIA	United Can Dump Pension Plans, Bankruptcy Judge Says
Can a 'Third Way' Save the AFL-CIO from Break-Up and Open Warfare?	American Labor Studies Center	Labor Educator
UAW Plans Health Benefit Concessions at GM	Labor Splits Open	90% of Solidarity Center’s Annual Budget Comes from Payoffs by U.S. Government
San Francisco Labor History and Tour	A More Perfect Union	DC 37 backs Billionaire Bloomberg
Staughton Lynd’s remarks on Solidarity Unionism	AFL-CIO rift threatens labor	Teamsters, SEIU Decide to Bolt From AFL-CIO
Ambitions Are Fueling a Division of Labor	Labor Jobs In Ca	AFL Split and Its International Spy Policy
Top 10 Problems with the Current Debate in the Labor Movement	AFL-CIO CONVENTION CALLS FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ	AFL-CIO puts limits on working with disaffiliated unions
AFL-CIO conference passes pro-war resolution	Let the Raiding Begin SEIU Splits, Hits Afscme	Corzine Gave $470,000 Loan to Head of Union
AFL-CIO Foreign Policy--Final Report from Convention	David Bacon on the Union War	WHAT THE I. W. W. IS
Fiery airline mechanics go it alone	Labor takes hit as solidarity split	Unions, Bosses, and Feds Work Together to Smash Northwest Strike
Dozens Hurt After China Factory Protest	Unionized Cops of the World Uniting	Youngstown State University Strike collapses
Boeing Machinists Vote to Strike	US HSA Unions: We'll be Fascists, Just Give Us A Contract	The AFL-CIO and the Iraq war
Ex-Teamsters official convicted in union election swindle	Airline Strikes Start to Unravel 2005	UFCWA Forces Another Vote On Detroit Sellout Contract
27th Annual North American Labor History Conference	The United Association for Labor Education	SOLIDARITY, SO OVER By GEORGE F. WILL
4th Union Quits A.F.L.-C.I.O. in a Dispute Over Organizing	Anna Burger to Head Breakaway Labor Group	LA Labor Fights Each Other, and Arnold Too
Delphi head warns UAW against strike	The Hammer Of Bankruptcy At Delphi	GM/UAW Gut Retiree Health Care, Plan 25,000 Layoffs, To Spin Off GMAC
U.S. Labor Is in Retreat as Global Forces Squeeze Pay and Benefits	TOM WALSH: GM retirees bear brunt of deal	Union Offers Details of Health Deal With G.M.
UAW Maneuvers to Halt Retiree Suits on Benefit Sellout	Rose Ann Demarco, CNA The Top Ten Problems of the Phony Split in the AFL-CIO	Discussion on the Future of the Labor Movement
A Living Wage: No Longer on the Auto Industry’s Agenda	Demands for Labor Givebacks Grow More Aggressive; Union Leaders Increasingly Must Push for Concessions In Wake of GM-UAW Pact	UFCW Lines Up Farmer Jack Workers for Ten Percent Concessions
NYU GRAD AIDES WALK	GM Workers Buy UAW Health Care Betrayal	UAW Lost Another 30,000 Members in 2004
History of the IWW Free Speech FIght in Fresno	GM, the Past and the Future of the UAW	General strike in Italy
Houston Janitors Form Union	help to head off a fiasco at NYU	Labor to Press for Workers' Right to Join Unions
Firestone Hit with Lawsuit over Slave-Like Conditions at Rubber Plantation	UAW Sells Out Health Care at Fords to Top 2005	Jeb Sprague, the AFL-CIO, NED, and Haiti
Retiree Suit Exposes UAW GM Secret Deal	Ralphs indicted on federal charges in 2003 SoCal grocery strike	Not Without A Fight: Rank & File Meet To Beat Delphi & UAW
Blue-collar workers turn backs on UAW	Uniquely Aggrieved, and Empowered, Union Digs in Again	Ford UAW workers narrowly approve health-care agreement
WORKERS DISPUTE UAW VOTE: Some threaten to appeal Ford health care deal's slim win	Big Labor's Big Secret

Rouge blast will be among costliest	Honda plant threatens UAW	State, Ford at odds in probe: Rouge workers worried about safety before blast
Another Rouge suit filed: Injured worker says maintenance neglected	INTERNATIONALLY- RECOGNISED CORE LABOUR STANDARDS IN THE UNITED STATES: REPORT FOR THE WTO GENERAL COUNCIL REVIEW OF THE TRADE POLICIES OF THE UNITED STATES	Pay Gap Between Workers and Bosses Explodes
Ford Rouge Fined For Deadly Explosion	Americans Work Longest Hours	Labor Unions and the Net
Corruption in AFSCME DC37	Bosses in Non-Profits Steal the Milk Money	California Labor History Outline
Rouge Meltsdown Again	Ex-Teamster official convicted	Another Worker Hurt at Rouge
UAW Members Reject Lordstown Contract	Lawsuit for Dead Worker, Ford Says "All Lies"	Another Fire at the Rouge
Ford Paid 8,000$ Bonus to Living Workers in 2000 Saved the money by Killing a Few Others	AFSCME Gangsters	UAW Attacks Unionist to Cover Up Rouge Blast
AFL-CIO Wants your vote (ie, money and mind)	USA: Major Work Stoppages 1999	Ex-Teamsters Official Sentenced to 3 Years
UAW Lost 10% in 1999	UAW Probed for More Corruption While the Real Corruption is Untouched	IWW How to Organize a Union
Historiography of the IWW	Bogus Low Wage Unionism: The Facts Behind the Justice For Janitors Campaign	AFCME/SEIU/TEAMSTER Corruption
rouge blows up again	AFL-CIO Hits New Membership Low in 2000	Teamster Dilema: The I.S.' Gangster, or the Gangster?
Autoworkers Sue The UAW	UAW Loses Another 10% of its Members	More AFSCME OFFICERS Stealing
Staughton Lynd On Union Reform AN OPEN LETTER TO RANK-AND-FILE LABOR ACTIVISTS	UAW Racketeers Running Company Union?	Corrupt UAW Buys off Itself
UAW Investigation Part 3	The UAW and for-profit Radio What a Tangled Web	Jo Labadie and His Gift to Michigan
AFL-CIO backs Oil Drilling in Alaska .	U.S. Labor History: Research Institutions	UAW Bids On Palm Springs Resort
Teamsters Get Cozy with Republicans, again	UAW Crushed in Nissan Vote (unions Section)	National Guard Scabbed on Minnesota Strike
The Rebellion in Los Angeles	To Rebuild Is Not Enough (On the LA Crisis)	Child Labor
Robin Kelley Interviews Herbert Aptheker on History (1)	Robin Kelley Interviews Herbert Aptheker on History (2)	Rose Freedman, Last Survivor of Triangle Fire, Dies at 107
National Guard Scabbed on Minnesota Strike	Death on the Job, 5915 in 2000	Mike Quinn on the San Francisco General Strike
How Industrial Unionism Was Won: THE GREAT FLINT SIT-DOWN STRIKE AGAINST GM 1936-37 by Walter Linder	The Press and the San Francisco General Strike	Tire Workers Make Concessions, Lose Jobs and Pensions
Unions Unfit to Meet Attacks on Workers	2002: Union Size Stagnates	As Far As He Could See by Gregg Shotwell (a poem)
National Endowment for Democracy Behind the Venezuela Coup	Social Democrats USA: Group Watch Report	New UAW Boss Profiled
Union Boss Salary Figures For 2000	SF Labor Council, Cowardly Retreat on the War	Teamsters Seize Northwest Local
The Wheatland California Farmworker Rebellion	Mexican-American Organizing in California	Feds Threaten Military Scabs for Dock Strike
Working People In California in the 1930's (WPA Guide)	UAW Steve Yokich Dies, Not a Single Worker Quoted in Memorials	Labor History Timeline
IWW preamble	Three UAW Bosses Face Indictment	UAW Bosses Indicted For Scamming Workers
Gender and Class in US Labor History	Unions go Republicans	West Coast Dock strife could return as year end crisis (stratfor)
Dockworkers Slowdown Boils Up	Cornell Grad students say no to the UAW by a wide margin	The Corporatization of the Unions by Jim Smith
Jane Slaughter: Labor's Enron	AFL-CIO Salaries	History of the AFL-CIO "Leadership"
Mechanics Reject Union Sellout at United	United, the Union, and Machinists at Odds on Vote	Calif Prison Guards Pay Off Legislators on Maui
United Bankrupcy: why mechanics rejected givebacks	Jim Prickett: Communists and the Communist Issue in the American Labor Movement, 1920-1950	First strike in 20 years against GE, one striker killed
US Unions turning against war	How to Get Your Union Boss's Salary and Related Figures: Assoc. For Union Democracy	Forbes Magazine on the State of the Unions
2003: Union Membership Drops Again	Labor Bosses Mildly Criticize War: Fascist AFT Remains in Hawk Camp	Palace Coup at AFL-CIO
Sweeney Scabs on Anti-War Movement	Ullilco Scam Splits AFL-CIO Bosses	UAW Backs Move to Cut Pensions For Blue Collar Workers
Labor's Cold War	Why America Outpaces Europe (Clue: The God Factor)	UAW says it will fight health cuts
More Ford job cuts needed, execs told	IWW SONGBOOK	Holt Labor Library -- Labor Studies and Radical History
Analysis of the Chrysler Bailout	Firestorm over foreign workers	Vincent Chin and the Chrysler Bailout
Michigan's Racketeer AFL Cancels Labor Day	UAW's Largest Local Faces Concessions Bargaining	CIA Agent Tells How National Endowment for Democracy Works as a Spy
UAW Can't Organize the South, Or Anybody	DaimlerChrysler to pay $300 million to settle suit by investors over 1998 merge	Detroit News: Unions and DoDo Birds
The Victory of Speedup and Layoffs: Productivity	Fire in the Hole, on the IWW	Characteristics Of Minimum Wage Workers: Dept of Labor
Workers Pay 50% More for Health Care	Detroit News Praises UAW Sellout Pact	UAW Racketeer Sellout Finalizes Corporate Unionism 2003
Who Won What: Details of the UAW Sellout	NYTimes Praises Corporate-State Unionism/UAW Pact	UAW Racketeers Agreed to Lose 50,000 Jobs
The UAW Lied on Lost Jobs in the Contract	The Flint Sit-Down Strike Audio Gallery	Judge Overturns Rank and File Suit vs Gm and Racketeer UAW Bosses
Delphi Local Rejects UAW Sellout	More Details on UAW Sellout	Union Lied: Nothing In UAW Pact to Organize Chrysler
Counterpunch on New Unity Partnership	Retires Pay the Price of UAW Pact as More Secrets Leak	GM Boasts About Sellout UAW Contract
Role Playing the Great Flint Strike	Judge Cuts Loose UAW Racketeers	General strike in Italy
Class Struggle 101 by Barbara Ehrenreich	Wal-Martization of the USA, or NY Times for cheap labor but not so bluntly	UAW's Largest Local Makes Wage and Benefit Concessions
Staughton Lynd Against the AFL-CIO A Speech to the Wobblies	Union Guts Pay for Picketeers	Brits' Teacher Union Abandons Exam Boycott: Teachers Support the Big Tests
Grocery Bosses Shut Down Striker Health Benefits	Scab Nuckols Runs Show for Ralphs	Teamsters Decide to Scab, UFCW Begs to Make Concessions--Grocery Bosses Hammer Down
Union Corruption Updates Online