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  • No Relief in Sight as Postal Service Pushes Ahead with Cuts
    Theresa Moran
    May 24 2012 - 12:48pm
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    When the Senate passed a bill on April 25 meant to provide relief to the financially struggling post office, postal activists shrugged.

    Neither chamber of Congress is adequately addressing the root cause of the Postal Service budget crisis, they say. Absent a fix, Postmaster General Patrick Donohoe’s plans for massive cuts to jobs and services soon will be underway for postal workers and communities nationwide.

  • How to Bargain Concessions (If You Must)
    Richard de Vries
    May 15 2012 - 4:10pm

    Can concessions save jobs? Almost always they cannot, and certainly not in the big picture. Concessions can’t fix a collapsed market or stop offshoring, nor the 1%’s relentless assault on the working class. But concessions may save jobs in the short term if the union bargains hard in areas not traditional to our thinking and gets specific, concrete guarantees.

  • Unions Struggle to Regroup As Verizon’s Hits Keep Coming
    Pat Fahy
    Apr 4 2012 - 12:09pm

    Seven months after last August’s bitter Verizon strike, the company's attack continues relentlessly. Hundreds of layoffs in New Jersey are underway as union leaders and rank-and-file rabble-rousers debate how to regain leverage.

  • Can Labor Organize the Unemployed?
    Jenny Brown
    Feb 14 2012 - 9:20am

    Wrenching testimonies from laid-off workers are overflowing the internet, crying out from the pages of policy reports, and popping up in commercial media. But unions are still grappling with how to organize the unemployed into a political force.

  • Clericals Say UAW Should Practice What It Preaches

    Clerical workers at United Auto Workers headquarters in Detroit are protesting layoffs that will take effect Friday. They picketed this month carrying signs that read “What about shared sacrifice?” and “Justice for ALL workers.”

  • Koreans Brave Pepper Spray, Thugs to Rally at Crane Sit-In

    About 15,000 rallied in the South Korean port city of Busan last weekend to support a woman welder whose lone sit-in atop a shipyard crane has lasted 208 days.

  • Protests Pay off as California Gets More $ for Education

    Three days after statewide protests and lobbying by California teachers, Governor Jerry Brown earmarked an additional $3 billion for education--a result of many months of massive protests and lobbying across the state.

  • Teachers Are Singled Out in Attacks on Public Employees
    Howard Ryan
    May 4 2011 - 3:00pm

    Like other public employees, teachers find their bargaining rights under fire in the Republican-governed states. But the attacks on teacher job security and the drive to replace public schools with charters are universal—and bipartisan.

  • Mass Teacher Layoffs and School Closures Hit Detroit
    Howard Ryan
    Apr 19 2011 - 6:08pm

    Detroit is now a trendsetter in the dismantling of public schools and stripping of teachers’ union rights. The schools' chief handed layoff notices to all 5,466 teachers and staff, in a bid to pick and choose who stays and who goes.

  • Don't Target Our Mentors, Say Young Teachers

    What damage is done to schools if teaching becomes a revolving door job? Young teachers say they’d prefer not to find out. A group in New York schools called on state leaders this week to preserve “last in, first out” seniority rules.