Labor Notes Archive

February, 2005

End to Garment Quota System Spells More Competition, More Poverty
Two-Tier Contract at Caterpillar Worsens; Retirees Stiffed
Northern California Contract Continues Concessions in Grocery Industry
Union Made in El Salvador
Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap
Independent Union Struggles Against Partnership Schemes And Union-Busting on Russia’s Docks

January, 2005

Dispatches From The Shop Floor
Mandated Programs Push Classroom De-Skilling
San Francisco Hotel Lockout Boxed Employers In
Strategy Debate: What Will Save the Labor Movement?
Mandated Programs Push Classroom De-Skilling
Working For Change: Interview With An SEIU Reformer
Making the Case for Insourcing
Auto Workers Walk Off Line at Ford’s Showcase Truck Plant over Overtime Violation

December, 2004

Railroads Reduce Crew Sizes with New Technology
Airline Changes Break Up Crews and Solidarity
Atlantic City Casino Strike Settled
Editorial: What Will Make Unions a Power in Politics?
Dispatches from the Shop Floor
What Labor Needs: Thousands of New Shop Stewards

November, 2004

Using Quality Language To Exert Shop Floor Power
Postal Unions Need Not Surrender to Automation
Hotel/Casino Workers Strike Both Coasts as Union Puts National Strategy to Work
L.A. Nurses Take Direct Action on the Hospital Floor To Protect Patients, Themselves
Steward System Is Key to Building Downtown Workers Union in Vermont
Discontent Spreads in East Coast Longshore Union

October, 2004

Surrendering the Shop Floor Means Surrendering the Future

September, 2004

8000 ‘Guest Workers’ Join Farm Union in North Carolina
Support the Million Worker March
AFL-CIO Forms Special Committee To Ward Off Independent Unions

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