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Delta Flight Attendants Vote 98% For Union -- And Lose »

March 1, 2002 | Rodney Ward

Fifty Delta Airlines flight attendants gathered with members and organizers from the Association of Flight Attendants at the National Mediation Board (NMB) February 1, to witness the vote count for their union representation election. The vote capped a four-year campaign among Delta’s 19,033...

It's Enron-Ron »

March 1, 2002 | Julie McCall

Who’s the corporation that went belly-up?
It’s Enron-ron-ron, it’s Enron-ron.
Employees and investors all are out of luck,
It’s Enron-ron-ron, it’s Enron-ron.
Yeah, those millionaires
All cashed in their shares.
A real bankrupt affair,
It’s Enron-ron-ron, it’s Enron-ron.

The Battle of the Plaza de Mayo »

February 1, 2002 | Daniel Ximenez

In a period of a few short weeks in December and January, Argentina’s middle class, workers, and unemployed finally got fed up with years of government cuts, layoffs, privatization, and other schemes designed to integrate Argentina into the global economy...

La Batalla de Plaza de Mayo »

February 1, 2002 | Daniel Ximenez

Finalmente la resistencia del pueblo argentino, la lucha defensiva de todos estos años, se transformo en ofensiva. Las ultimas medidas de ajuste y represion que intento imponer el gobierno los ultimos dias fueron la gota que desbordo el vaso. La experiencia acumulada, en las luchas contra...

Steel Crisis Deepens As LTV Shuts Down; Health Care and Pension Benefits in Danger »

February 1, 2002 | Bob Parker

LTV Steel, the third largest integrated steelmaker in the U.S., stopped making steel in early December...

Around the World, Mass Political Strikes Challenge the Effects of Globalization »

February 1, 2002 | Kim Moody

Around the world in the last few years, labor has responded to globalization and its impact with general or mass political strikes...

The Global Economy Must Market Democratic Values »

February 1, 2002 | Leo W. Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers

The Steelworkers’ commitment to the global justice movement is a logical extension of the principles of economic and social justice that our union has always championed...

Entrevista con Daniel Ximenez »

February 1, 2002 |


Labor Notes: ¿Cual ha sido el papel de los sindicatos tanto positivo como negativo?¿ Porque no han estado mas involucrados en el movimiento?

Globalizadores Cuando Les Conviene »

February 1, 2002 | Daniel Ximenez

He aqui una pequeña muestra sobre como funciona la famosa e "inevitable" globalizacion...

AFL-CIO Stays the Course »

January 1, 2002 | Hal Leyshon

Despite an ample dose of progressive rhetoric, and some genuine outrage at the Bush Administration's anti-worker agenda, the AFL-CIO's December 3-6 convention in Las Vegas lacked inspiration. Whatever genuine discussion may have occurred went on within the Executive Council beforehand; almost...

Teachers in Handcuffs »

January 1, 2002 | Freda Coodin

Although strikes by public employees are illegal in New Jersey, the members of the Middletown Township Education Association could not have expected that their strike, which began November 29, would land 228 of them in jail...

Hoffa Now Must Negotiate the Big Teamster Contracts »

January 1, 2002 | Ken Paff

James Hoffa's reelection as Teamster president came as no surprise. Hoffa took nearly 65 percent of the vote among the 25 percent of Teamsters who voted...

Winning a Living Wage Ordinance from the Grassroots »

January 1, 2002 | Gyula Nagy

Thousands of tourists visit "Old Town" Alexandria, Virginia to stroll the quaint colonial-era district. Workers like Mussie Habetezion tend the visitors' cars in the city-owned parking lot. He, like many of his co-workers, left Ethiopia and landed a $7 an hour job in Alexandria. After working...

Lucent Technologies Workers Fight Plant Closing to the Bitter End »

January 1, 2002 | Gary Nilsson

The Merrimack Valley Works (MVW)--now owned by Lucent Technologies-- has a long history in North Andover, Massachusetts. It began fifty years ago with a 2 million square foot factory and has been this region's largest employer for a long time, with up to 12,000 total employees in the 1970s....

A Scripted, Upbeat Labor Convention »

January 1, 2002 | Harry Kelber

In an aura of unity and solidarity, the 1,000 delegates to the AFL-CIO convention spent the opening hours in emotional eulogies to the 630 union members who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. There were also expressions of pride for the enormous assistance that unions have extended to the...

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