Labor Notes Magazine, December 2007, No. 345

After Wildcat Strike Against Concessions, Freightliner Workers Fight for Their Jobs

-- Tiffany Ten Eyck

Cleveland, a small town with less than 1,000 residents in western North Carolina, is an unlikely home for an active autoworkers’ union. . . . Read More

Writers Walk Pickets For Share of New Media

-- Mark Brenner

TV lovers get ready for more re-runs ahead. On November 5 more than 12,000 television and screenwriters, members of the Writers Guild of America, traded in their pens for picket signs. Industry insiders predict the strike could last well into 2008, and writers are preparing for a long battle. . . . Read More

Teamsters Trade Gains of 1997 UPS Strike for Deal to Organize Members at Freight Division

-- Mark Brenner

In mid-November Teamsters at United Parcel Service approved a controversial five-year agreement, more than eight months before the expiration of their current contract. . . . Read More

Canadian Auto Workers Surrender Right to Strike, Shop Floor Independence in Magna Agreement

-- Herman Rosenfeld

The Canadian Auto Workers unveiled a plan in mid-October for organizing Magna, the largest automotive employer north of the border and a notoriously anti-union company. . . . Read More

New York School Aide Booted from Ballot

-- Mischa Gaus

Tripping up an insurgent campaign among school aides, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 372 disqualified in mid-November a dissident candidate for the union’s executive board. . . . Read More

Fallout From 2005 Strike: Judge Denies Dues Check-Off to New York Transit Union

-- Ari Paul

Two-Tier Wages, Benefits Apply To All New Hires: UAW Approves Even-Deeper Concessions at Ford

-- Tiffany Ten Eyck

Retirement Rules At Issue: Strike Wave Hits Public Sector In France

-- Frank Slegers

Beware of Big Brother: Surveillance Technologies Threaten Job Rights

-- Jon Forster

No Merit To Merit Pay For Teachers

-- Joshua Pechthalt

Viewpoint: Whatever Happened To The Eight-Hour Day?

-- Steve Early, Suzanne Gordon

Setting Up No-Match Action Networks

-- Jerry Mead-Lucero

When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in August a policy that gave employers a freer hand to punish workers with mismatched social security numbers, a committee of unions, workers’ centers, and immigrant rights groups in Chicago swung into action. . . . Read More