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Amid the Tear Gas in Quebec, Thousands Oppose New Free Trade Deal »

June 18, 2001 | Jennifer Berkshire

It had been a wild week--3,000 union members, farmers, and NGO representatives from every country in the hemisphere gathered in Quebec City to discuss alternatives to the Free Trade Area of the Americas. If passed, the FTAA would extend NAFTA-type provisions to the whole hemisphere. By Friday,...

Company E-Mail Rules--Are They Illegal? »

June 18, 2001 | Robert M. Schwartz

Thousands of companies bar employees from using company e-mail systems for non-business purposes. A complaint recently issued by the National Labor Relations Board raises the possibility that such companies could be prosecuted if they keep workers from communicating about union activity--or...

Amid the Tear Gas in Quebec, Thousands Oppose New Free Trade Deal »

May 31, 2001 | by Jennifer Berkshire

It had been a wild week--3,000 union members, farmers, and NGO representatives from every country in the hemisphere gathered in Quebec City to discuss alternatives to the Free Trade Area of the Americas. If passed, the FTAA would extend NAFTA-type provisions to the whole hemisphere. By Friday,...

'New Economy' High-Tech Jobs Look Much Like Old Economy Low-Wage Work »

May 18, 2001 | Patrick Moran

The “new economy” is another name for an old bag of tricks where promise and reality don’t match up. E-workers counting on valuable stock options, a revolutionized workplace, and premier wages and benefits have instead gotten mediocre wages, useless stock options, relentless production pressure...

Airlines Claim Poverty After Years of Record Profits; Bush Backs Management »

May 18, 2001 | Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik

Tens of thousands of airline workers are working under open contracts, most of them at the four largest carriers. Airline workers are angry and frustrated because all the major airlines made record profits over the last seven years, after big worker concessions in the 1980s and early 90s.

Airlines Claim Poverty After Years of Record Profits; Bush Backs Management »

April 30, 2001 | Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik

Tens of thousands of airline workers are working under open contracts, most of them at the four largest carriers. Airline workers are angry and frustrated because all the major airlines made record profits over the last seven years, after big worker concessions in the 1980s and early 90s.

Union Leaders Killed at U.S.-Owned Mine in Colombia »

April 30, 2001 | Solidarity Network

The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine, and General Workers’ Unions is demanding that the Colombian government put an end to a wave of murders of Colombian unionists.

Solidarity Grows for Dockers Victimized by "Police Riots" »

April 1, 2001 | Ashaki Binta

Solidarity efforts for the Charleston Five dockworkers are mushrooming across the country, including support from unions, community and civil rights organizations, and the international community. The national AFL-CIO has endorsed the campaign and many state federations, central labor councils...

Canadian Auto Workers Brings Members Into Discussion of Union and Politics »

April 1, 2001 | by Herman Rosenfeld

The Canadian Auto Workers is in the midst of a timely and unique project--a national task force to encourage discussion and debate about the future of working class politics in Canada.


The centerpiece of the task force’s work is a series of frank and open discussions about the union and...

Solidarity Grows for Dockers Victimized by "Police Riots" »

April 1, 2001 | Ashaki Binta

Solidarity efforts for the Charleston Five dockworkers are mushrooming across the country, including support from unions, community and civil rights organizations, and the international community. The national AFL-CIO has endorsed the campaign and many state federations, central labor councils...

Canadian Auto Workers Brings Members Into Discussion of Union and Politics »

April 1, 2001 | Herman Rosenfeld

The Canadian Auto Workers is in the midst of a timely and unique project--a national task force to encourage discussion and debate about the future of working class politics in Canada.


Deregulation Bites Back in California »

March 1, 2001 | Teófilo Reyes

"Why California needed to deregulate, it was all corporate greed--the big free-market ideologues,” exclaims Bernardo Garcia, Region 5 Director for the Utility Workers Union of America.


San Francisco Bike Messengers' Union Rolls Out Direct Action, Strikes »

March 1, 2001 | Nato Green

They’ve been called urban cowboys, daredevils, and street samurai, but in fact San Francisco’s bike messengers and their car-driving co-workers toil in sweatshops on wheels. They do stressful, dangerous work for little pay and fewer benefits, for companies that routinely flout wage-and-hour...

Labor Responds to the Energy Fiasco Deregulation Bites Back in California »

March 1, 2001 | Teófilo Reyes

"Why California needed to deregulate, it was all corporate greed--the big free-market ideologues,” exclaims Bernardo Garcia, Region 5 Director for the Utility Workers Union of America.


San Francisco Bike Messengers' Union Rolls Out Direct Action, Strikes »

March 1, 2001 | Nato Green

They’ve been called urban cowboys, daredevils, and street samurai, but in fact San Francisco’s bike messengers and their car-driving co-workers toil in sweatshops on wheels. They do stressful, dangerous work for little pay and fewer benefits, for companies that routinely flout wage-and-hour...

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