Troublemakers Blog
September 20, 2010 /
After football players raised an index finger (“one” for unity) in a brief pre-game gesture of union solidarity on the season’s opening day, we hear that ESPN radio says 99 percent of the calls and emails ESPN got were critical of the players. A startling revelation indeed: who »
September 17, 2010 / Mischa Gaus
Not a tea party but a pineapple party: Longshoremen’s (ILA) Local 1291 in Philadelphia dumped pineapples into the Delaware River on Labor Day to protest the Del Monte fruit company’s plans to go non-union.
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September 15, 2010 /
The UAW International is forcing a mail-in vote on a concessionary contract reopener at a GM local—after the membership there voted overwhelmingly not to reopen.
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September 14, 2010 / Mischa Gaus
Labor Notes' Mark Brenner was on Democracy Now! this morning to analyze the decisive showdown between the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the Service Employees (SEIU) coming to a head this week in California.
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September 13, 2010 / Jenny Brown
The fight is on at Delta Airlines, where, under new election rules that no longer count abstentions as "no's," 20,000 flight attendants have their best chance yet to win union representation.
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September 07, 2010 /
A strike is likely for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, after musicians voted to reject a management offer that would tumble the DSO out of its top-ten status.
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September 03, 2010 /
Ed Sadlowski came very close to winning the presidency of the Steelworkers in 1977, running a campaign that galvanized rank-and-filers. Now "Oil Can Eddie" is in California, volunteering on the campaign of the National Union of Healthcare Workers to unseat the Service Employees at Kaiser Permanente—an effort to represent more than 43,000 workers.
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September 03, 2010 /
What part of “NO” doesn’t Justin Norman understand? The CEO of JD Norman Industries is pleading with GM workers to accept his offer of a 50 percent pay cut—though they'd just booed his buddies off the stage two days before.
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September 02, 2010 / Jane Slaughter
It’s 12 feet long, with a tail, claws, and sharp teeth. It’s only a gray balloon, but the rat strikes fear in the hearts of New York City building managers.
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September 01, 2010 / Tiffany Ten Eyck
Forty-seven years after Martin Luther King, Jr. uttered the words “I have a dream” to an overflow crowd on the Washington Mall, August 28 still has resonance for civil rights activists, the union movement, and, now, the Tea Party.
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