Labor Notes Archive

January, 2005

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
Strikes Loom at Major Hotel Chains on Both Coasts
Understanding the New Overtime Rules

August, 2004

Companies Dump Pension Obligations on Taxpayers
Deserting the Sick and Elderly, Some Unions Join Employers Seeking to Limit Lawsuits
Toyota Organizing and the United Auto Workers
Why Organizing Toyota Should Be Job 1 for the United Auto Workers
Volunteer Organizers Report Progress Slow, But Improving at Plant in Georgetown, Kentucky
Skilled Trades Have Different Problem

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