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  • Stop the Auction!: UE Seeks Solidarity

    UPDATE: The auction action has been canceled. Esterline Technologies improved its severance offer--on the condition that UE Local 204 not attempt to stop the auction. The local said that more than $600,000 for 85 members is at stake. More information will be forthcoming.

  • Threat of Mass Mobilization Backs Company Down

    Last month United Electrical Workers Local 204 in Taunton, Massachusetts, called for mass picketing and blockading of entrances to a shuttered factory to stop the auction of its machines. In response, the company has postponed the auction, in a temporary victory for the union and the city, which is moving forward to take the plant equipment by eminent domain.

  • Unable to Cut Hourly Wages to $8, Hugo Boss Tries to Flee Overseas
    After unsuccessfully demanding workers take a 33 percent pay cut, Hugo Boss gave notice of their intent to shutter their plant and lay off 400 workers. Cleveland Jobs with Justice is standing with the workers and their union in a fight to save the last clothing manufacturer in the city.
  • Stella D’oro Strikers Win, Only to Face Plant Closing
    Sara Vitale
    Jul 17 2009 - 3:16pm

    After a grueling 11 months on strike, workers at the Stella D’oro cookie factory in New York returned to their jobs victorious in early July. But the win may be short-lived: they were greeted by a notice from the company that it intends to close the plant in 90 days.

  • ‘Manufacture American’ to Create Jobs

    Al Cholger

    In the wreckage of this old economy, there is a vision of a new one worth fighting for. It is time for a new Social Industrial Revolution that fixes our bridges and builds our rail with concrete and steel made in mills in our heartland.


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