Troublemakers Blog
June 22, 2012 / Steve Early
While the nation waits for an overdue Supreme Court decision that will decide the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, another health care drama with wide implications for universal health care is just starting in Vermont.
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June 18, 2012 / Theresa Moran
AFSCME delegates will vote Thursday at their convention in Los Angeles for a new president to replace 30-year incumbent Gerry McEntee. Labor Notes interviewed Alice Goff, who is running for secretary-treasurer on a ticket that challenges incumbent Secretary-Treasurer and McEntee favorite Lee Saunders, about how her slate would make a difference for AFSCME »
June 13, 2012 /
United Academics was certified April 27 to represent more than 1,800 professors and researchers at the University of Oregon. The union represents teaching employees across the board: full-time and part-time, tenure track and non-tenure track. The drive was motivated by U of O's creeping corporatization.
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June 08, 2012 /
The results of the Wisconsin recall election were very similar to the first run of this matchup in November 2010, when Scott Walker beat Tom Barrett. How can a government of the 1% receive so much support from the 99%?
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June 07, 2012 / Jenny Brown
The food that reaches our tables travels a labyrinth of abusive employers, low-paying jobs, and general disregard for the workers and the food. On Monday Mexican guest workers at a seafood processor in Louisiana walked off the job, driven to the wall by a manager's threats of violence.
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June 05, 2012 /
GM is offering its salaried retirees a deal. Not a gratuity or a bonus after a record-breaking year of profit, but a cash-in-your-chips kiss-off: one lump-sum payment in lieu of their monthly checks. Rumor has it that union hourly retirees are next.
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June 04, 2012 /
Tomorrow’s Wisconsin recall election will be a replay of November 2010—Governor Scott Walker vs. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
If the million voters who signed recall petitions, plus another half million, come out and vote for Barrett, Walker will be toast.
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May 31, 2012 / Mischa Gaus
Teamsters on the Canadian Pacific Railway will be ordered to end their nine-day strike shortly, when Parliament sends them back to work. Government back-to-work legislation is becoming a trend in Canada, with CP the third private company to receive that form of government help against its workforce since the Conservatives were elected in 2006.
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May 24, 2012 / Mischa Gaus
The Chicago Teachers Union filled an auditorium with 4,000 teachers yesterday, in a show of numbers marking the next step in the union’s struggle for educational justice.
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May 22, 2012 /
Do workers need a union to negotiate “market-based” wages? Machinists at a Caterpillar hydraulic parts factory in Joliet, Illinois, struck May 1 to tell the heavy-equipment giant they deserve better. They're hampered by the fact that Cat workers represented by the United Auto Workers accepted wages pegged to an annual employer survey back in 2004.
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