war

  • Transit Union Takes Education On the Road
    Jane Slaughter
    Sep 13 2011 - 9:56am

    The Amalgamated Transit Union is educating local leaders around the country about what’s wrong with the economy, helping bus drivers and mechanics who’ve seen transit funding slashed to understand some ugly truths. Squarely in the center is the impact of military spending on public budgets.

  • A Few Thanks, as We Try to Ride Out the Storm

    When the House decided before Thanksgiving not to extend unemployment benefits, anxiety set upon my family. My husband will reach his 99 weeks at the end of December, with no job prospects in sight. This is brewing up to be the perfect disaster—and my family and I are trying to survive the storm.

  • Endless War
    Julius Margolin
    Feb 1 2010 - 11:44am

    Julius Margolin walked and sailed the planet for 93 years before his death in 2009. He was a CIO organizer and member of the NMU.

  • "Why Are We in Afghanistan?" Debuts at US Labor Against the War Conference

    I just returned from the US Labor Against the War Assembly in Chicago, December 4-6. There were lots of high points, including the fact that oil workers from the U.S. got together with the heads of the oil unions in Iraq and Venezuela.

  • Escalating the War in Afghanistan Is Wrong

    President Obama’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan is wrong for many reasons. At its October 15 meeting, the Executive Board of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO adopted a simple statement that sums up many of those reasons: “We need to stop the war in Afghanistan and focus the nation’s attention on the fight for jobs, education, health care and pensions.”

  • Pakistan’s Union Activists Face Death Penalty

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    Thousands of Pakistani citizens have been arrested for joining widespread protests against the declaration of emergency rule in Pakistan. When President Pervez Musharraf suspended the constitution, fired supreme court judges, and enacted martial law in early November, crackdowns on labor ensued as well.

    Two days after the decree, outspoken union leader Rana Ayub Aki was arrested and jailed. Aki is the leader of the 130,000-strong union inside the Pakistani Water and Development Authority. In the wake of these crackdowns, many labor leaders are being forced into hiding.

    Union members and other activists organized a protest in early November at the Karachi Press Club, where police violently disrupted the gathering and arrested journalists, lawyers, and two labor leaders. One, Liaqat Ali Sahi, a leader at the State Bank of Pakistan and in the Hotel Workers Solidarity Committee, has been charged with treason for calling for the return of democracy at the November 5 rally. Musharraf’s emergency rule has given military courts the power to try civilians, and Sahi and three others face the death penalty.

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  • Viewpoint: Unity Is Achieved by Confronting Differences, Not Avoiding Them

    Paul Bigman, Lynne Dodson, Mary Ann Schroeder, and Lonnie Nelson

    While we certainly agree that labor must continue our coalition work on globalization, we have concerns with some of the views in Russ Davis’s April Viewpoint...

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  • How Do We Talk about Terrorism and War?

    by Cathy Austin

    In my workplace, discussions about the war in Afghanistan vary from comments that acknowledge the complexities and causes of this war to "bomb the shit out of them" to no opinion at all. Our members for the most part are reluctant to talk about sensitive issues at work because they want to protect the long-term relationships that we have with each other. The employer already divides us along many lines; care needs to be taken in discussing this issue, as we want to come together, not further divide ourselves.


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  • An Historical Perspective on War.

    April, 1898: The International Association of Machinists editorial on the sinking of the Maine; the event that led us into the Spanish-American War.


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