Troublemakers Blog
January 04, 2013 /
Unions in El Salvador are fighting a bill that would auction off everything from highways, ports, and airports to municipal services and higher education to private companies—mainly foreign multinationals.
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December 31, 2012 /
Collusion between the United Auto Workers and a Ford contractor to cut wages and oust Teamsters members was flagrant, says the NLRB—so flagrant that the board is seeking an injunction to get displaced Teamsters their jobs back more quickly.
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December 28, 2012 /
Picket lines can be lonely places, but not when the New York City Labor Chorus shows up to serenade you with solidarity.
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December 26, 2012 / Dan La Botz
Mexico is poised to pass a national “education reform” bill that will assert government control over the education system, wresting it from the hands of a corrupt teachers union leadership.
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December 18, 2012 / Mark Brenner
Protesters tried to stop the unloading of a ship carrying garments from Bangladesh, where a recent factory fire killed 112 workers.
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December 13, 2012 /
How workers on a university campus in Colorado are collaborating with a theater troupe to air their grievances and build their power.
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December 12, 2012 / Mark Brenner
I was on Fox News last night debating Vinny Vernuccio from the Mackinac Center about the passage of “right-to-work” in the labor movement’s backyard. »
December 07, 2012 /
When airport workers in Oakland, California, rallied yesterday to threaten a strike, they were joined by non-union workers from food outlets like Subway and Auntie Anne's. Their action came on the heels of a solidarity picket where workers from one union helped another in a 24-hour strike.
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December 03, 2012 / Jane Slaughter
Workers who make underbodies for the Mustang pulled off a mini-strike and work-to-rule last Friday. These are the sorts of wildcat actions that were frequent in the United Auto Workers’ early days—and a lot faster than the “obey now, grieve later, wait months for a solution” grievance procedure.
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November 30, 2012 /
Activists protested at the steps of GM’s world headquarters in Detroit yesterday, chanting “down with exploitation, up with mediation!” Jorge Parra, former GM worker from Colombia, in the eighth day of his third hunger strike, led the demonstration.
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