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  • Winning the P.R. War in a Contract Campaign
    Randy Robinson
    Dec 14 2011 - 3:47pm

    How does a union win a public relations war in the mainstream media? An Ontario union trained members, emphasized internal mobilizing, and communicated directly with the public to spread a campaign that communities need good jobs.

  • Illinois Faculty Unions Resist University Attacks
    Nancy Traver
    Nov 24 2011 - 10:53am

    At colleges around Illinois, faculty are under siege and looking to their unions for support. They're organizing, striking, resisting cuts, and defending contingent adjunct professors. “It’s the ripple effect,” said a faculty union president.

  • Student Labor Week of Action Hits the Streets

    Matt Abbott, Sameerah Ahmad, and Laura McSpedon

    The "Resistance and Recovery" week of action burst with 250 events in early April. As the corporate attack on workers intensifies with the economic crisis, Jobs with Justice and Student Labor Action Project activists took the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination as occasion to push back.


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  • Part-Time Professors: Little Pay, No Pensions, No Health Care, No Seniority, Now Organizing Unions.

    Paul Abowd

    One at a time, the teachers came out of the sub-zero January cold and into the lobby of Wayne State University’s McGregor Hall in Detroit. By the time the board of governors meeting began—where the teachers had three minutes total to detail their concerns—they were together in force. . . .


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  • Trabajadores de Limpieza en Boston Dicen que el Acuerdo que Terminó su Huelga no es una Victoria

    Amy Offner Traducido por Ric Urrutia y Julian Gonzalez

    El 9 de noviembre, trabajadores de la limpieza en Boston ratificaron un contrato de cinco años dos semanas después de terminar una huelga de 23 dias que atrajo atención nacional. Los administradores de la union de los trabajadores de la limpieza, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254, dijeron que el acuerdo fue una victoria porque le ofrece seguro de salud a 1,000 mas trabajadores de tiempo parcial.


    Yes
  • Musicians Hope Their "Craft Union" Will 'Get Real'

    Leah Samuel

    In 1997, a group of union musicians formed a task force to analyze the structure of the American Federation of Musicians. They were looking for ways the AFM could better serve its membership. The task force presented its proposals for change at the AFM convention last August--but the AFM leadership rejected them.


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