Labor Notes Magazine, October 2009, No. 367

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Housekeepers' Giant “Hope Quilt” Puts Hotel Job Injuries in Spotlight
Chris Kutalik
 | October 16, 2009
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Mexican Government Seizes Power Plants, Liquidates Dissident Union
Dan La Botz
 | October 13, 2009
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Florida Tomato Pickers Score ‘Greatest Victory’ in Decades
Sean Sellers
 | October 6, 2009
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Puerto Rico to Lay Off 17,000; Splintered Labor Movement Scrambles to Respond
José A. Laguarta Ramírez
 | October 6, 2009
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Outpouring of Protests, then Police "Payback" at G-20 Meeting
Kipp Dawson, Al Hart, and Paul LeBlanc
 | September 30, 2009
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Mexican Government Prepares to Seize Power Stations and Break Electrical Workers Union
Dan LaBotz
 | September 29, 2009
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Magazine
Too Late, Non-Union Delphi Retirees Learn the Value of Organizing
Gregg Shotwell
 | October 2, 2009
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In July non-union retirees from Delphi Corp. lost health insurance, life insurance, and a large portion of their pension as the company's 2005 bankruptcy came to its culmination. They responded by organizing. Trouble is, they responded ten years too late and one contract shy of a legal case.

Teacher Reformers Prepare for Battle over Public Education
Paul Abowd
 | October 14, 2009
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Longshore Reformers Shut Down Secret Contract Deal
Mischa Gaus
 | September 27, 2009
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Multi-Union Coalition at UC Strikes Back at Devastating Cuts
Jack Gerson, Tanya Smith
 | September 24, 2009
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Miners Strike To Defeat Two-Tier
Mischa Gaus
 | October 23, 2009
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Labor History: September 11, a volunteer's story
Jo Cagan
 | September 15, 2009
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Defined-Benefits Squeeze
Mark Brenner
 | September 15, 2009
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State and City Pensions Drenched in Red
Mark Brenner
 | September 15, 2009
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Pensions: The Next Casualty of Wall Street
Mark Brenner
 | September 26, 2009
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AFL-CIO Sidesteps Tough Issues
Mischa Gaus, Jane Slaughter
 | September 27, 2009
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New Law Raises Pension Oversight, and Problems
Mark Brenner
 | September 26, 2009
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Review: Michael Moore Calls Out Capitalism
Jane Slaughter
 | September 26, 2009
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Grocery Unions Join with Community To Build Better Supermarkets
Tiffany Ten Eyck
 | September 26, 2009
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Solidarity Network
Stand with the Mexican Electrical Workers Union
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Boston-area Workers to March and Rally against "Jobless Recovery"
Rand Wilson
 | September 27, 2009
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