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Aug 19 2006
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ARCHIVE OF COVERAGE: Unions & the Labor Movement |
This page is a partial archive of labor- and union-related news coverage from US-based IMCs. It is not a complete archive of such coverage. If you know of a story that is missing, please contact the editorial collective at imc-us-editorial((at))lists.indymedia.org.Labor & Workers' Organizations: AFL-CIO | Change to Win Federation | Industrial Workers of the World | Interfaith Worker Justice | Jobs With Justice | National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Labor & Workers' Media: CommunicateOrDie.com Labor Notes | New Beginnings Journal | Workers Independent News | Labor Notes | Brain Labor Report
Photo by Michael Gould-Wartofsky -- Oct 23, 2007: Images from NYC Taxi Workers' Strike, Take Two
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local and national features
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Mar 15 2010
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Protest: "Money for People's Needs, Not for War and Corporate Bailouts" |
On Saturday, March 20th, thousands of people will be marching in cities across the country calling for an end to wars occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq and everywhere. The protest marks the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In San Francisco, the Executive Board of UNITE-HERE Local 2 and many other unions have endorsed the March 20 march and rally. The march will be going to two of the boycotted hotels, the Hilton and the Westin-St. Francis in solidarity with the hotel workers.
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Mar 15 2010
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Media Workers for Social Change, Chapter 4 |
Chapter four of this series is Peter M's profile of Oakland's Favianna Rodriguez. By any measure she is a successful poster artist, businesswoman and organizer. She organizes other progressive artists into projects, such as the mural that went up last year on the side of the Oakland Museum. She is a role model for up-and-coming Latina artists, proving in her life that sí se puede-yes it can be done.
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Mar 12 2010
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First Texas SFA Regional Encuentro A Success |
by Texas SFA from the Open Publishing Newswire: The first-ever Texas SFA Regional Encuentro brought students and youth from cities accross Central, South and North Texas to the University of Houston for a weekend of strategizing, conviviendo and taking action around the CIW-led Campaign for Fair Food.
Saturday’s Encuentro started with an introduction to SFA, CIW, and the Campaign for Fair Food. We had folks brand new to the campaign as well as veteran@s from the days of the Taco Bell Boycott - including UTSA, where mechistas successfully organized to keep Taco Bell off their campus [PDF] - who shared history and their reflection on what SFA and the CIW have meant to them over the years. The most exciting part of our Encuentro on Saturday was the March to Kroger in the afternoon. Over 20 students and community allies marched the streets of Houston passing out cards to people in the community and putting pressure on the local Kroger. We were kicked off the Kroger property by the manager and then monitored by the police but we were able to get the manager to talk to us and make a couple of calls to his supervisors. People in the local community came out and were supportive of the rally. Several shoppers turned away after we passed out information on why we were protesting. [Read the Full Story with photos]
More from the newswire: One Mile March for Farmworkers rights and against modern day slavery from UH to Kroger | Report on Successful Texas SFA Regional Encuentro
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Mar 11 2010
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Sweeping victory for SEIU reformers |
IN A stunning upset, union reformers in Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 swept to victory in their local's first-ever elections--an outcome that will rattle the top leaders of the 2 million-member union. The reformers in Local 1021 were expected to do well given the Northern California local's poor performance in defending jobs and public services, and local officials' seeming inability to resist concessions.
Meanwhile, in the middle of the state, reformers in SEIU Local 521 captured a number of seats on the local's executive board after an uphill fight. The Voices of the Members slate had to battle an army of paid union staff. The reformers were unsuccessful in winning any of the officers' positions, but their gains, coming alongside the win in Local 1021, signal growing dissatisfaction with the SEIU's bureaucratic methods.
Meanwhile, in the middle of the state, reformers in SEIU Local 521 captured a number of seats on the local's executive board after an uphill fight. The Voices of the Members slate had to battle an army of paid union staff. The reformers were unsuccessful in winning any of the officers' positions, but their gains, coming alongside the win in Local 1021, signal growing dissatisfaction with the SEIU's bureaucratic methods.
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Mar 11 2010
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Movement for Living Wages, Community Space, Grows at Queens Center Mall |
The coalition fighting for living wages and community space at the Queens Center Mall confronted the mall owner, the Macerich Company, Monday demanding a meeting to begin discussions on how to transform the publicly subsidized poverty wage center into a responsible development that pays employees a living wage and benefits the community.
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Mar 10 2010
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Low Wage UC Service Workers Pressure Regent Richard Blum |
On March 9th at Golden Gate National Recreational Area's Fort Baker in Marin County, nearly a hundred UC service workers, students and supporters from UCB, UCSF, UCSC, UC Davis entered the hired meeting space of Blum Capital Partnership, the Cavallo Point Lodge at Fort Baker in Sausalito, and picketed the street in front. Richard Blum is a UC Regent and the husband of California Senator Diane Feinstein.
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Mar 09 2010
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Shaw's Workers on Strike |
On March 7, 2010, by a vote of 228 to 8, the workers of the Shaw’s Supermarkets' Methuen Distribution Center, represented by UFCW Local 791, voted overwhelmingly to reject a final contract offer by Shaw’s Supermarkets and voted to strike following the expiration of the current contract at midnight on March 6, 2010.
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Mar 06 2010
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UPDATE: Students, Workers, Supporters March on the MTA (Images + Video) |
Yesterday, as college students were walking out, teaching in and rallying at universities citywide and nationwide, thousands of local high school students were streaming out of school gates and into the streets of New York. It was by far the largest protest to hit the State or the MTA since the Authority's decision to eliminate the free Student MetroCard last December. Joined by teachers, parents, transit workers, CUNY students and others, the students rallied at the office of embattled Governor Paterson and marched to the MTA hearings. Rush-hour traffic was blocked from Third Avenue to Seventh Avenue.
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Mar 04 2010
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Students, Education Workers Nationwide Rise Up to Defend Public Education on March 4 |
Nationwide demonstrations took place on Thursday, as students and education workers rose up against budget cuts, layoffs, fee hikes, and the system that prioritizes war and prisons over schools. Demonstrations took place at over 100 campuses in at least 39 states. The most militant actions took place in California. In Oakland, over 200 people shut down Interstate 880, resulting in a mass arrest. In Davis, protesters also tried to take over an Interstate. Thousands rallied in Sacramento, and in Santa Cruz, the UCSC campus was effectively shut down by 5am.Sizable demonstrations also happened in Chicago, Minneapolis, New York City, Portland, Syracuse, Champaign, Baltimore and in Milwaukee, where 18 protesters were arrested.
See local IMCs for open-published coverage of all the March 4 actions: Southern California Actions: LA Indymedia (Crowdsourced Live Reports) | Northern California Actions: Indybay | Urbana-Champaign | Twin Cities | New York City (Pregame, Reportback) | Portland | Rochester | Santa Cruz
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Mar 03 2010
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Rally & March Against Attack On Workers And Public Transit |
On March 1st, hundreds of MUNI workers from TWU Local 250-A, riders, and community organizations rallied and marched in downtown San Francisco to oppose the MTA proposed budget cuts and threatened layoffs. The march began at Powell and Market and went to MTA offices. The march then went to City Hall for a forum led by union organizer Eric Williams who called for unity between MUNI workers and riders.
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Mar 02 2010
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Banner dropped at Umass Boston |
On the first school morning of March, activists representing the UMass Boston Committee to Have Fun dropped a banner from the Wheatley building reading “No Paycuts or Tuition Hikes. March 4th!” as a sign of things to come this week as schools across the country prepare for the March 4th day of action to defend public education.
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Mar 01 2010
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Come to PSU on the 4th to defend public education! |
Hundreds Gather at the Education is a Right Rally!
In the defense of Education on March 4th A National Day of Action
WHO: Students, community leaders, and activists will rally to defend education in coalition with thousands from across the country on March 4th, A National Day of Action on behalf of Higher Education. Our local coalition is composed of the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), Students for Unity (SFU), International Socialist Organization (ISO), Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER), Pan American Solidarity Organization (PASO), Radical Women, Faculty members, and volunteers through Jobs with Justice.
WHAT: In commemoration of the protests in California last year on UC campuses across the state, students return to continue to protest lack of an accessible, affordable education. Hundreds will gather to take a stand that education is a right!
WHERE: Portland State Park Blocks on the Center Stage
WHEN: Rally and speakers at 1P.M. Followed by a march and bands until 3 P.M, March 4th 2010
In the defense of Education on March 4th A National Day of Action
WHO: Students, community leaders, and activists will rally to defend education in coalition with thousands from across the country on March 4th, A National Day of Action on behalf of Higher Education. Our local coalition is composed of the Associated Students of Portland State University (ASPSU), Students for Unity (SFU), International Socialist Organization (ISO), Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER), Pan American Solidarity Organization (PASO), Radical Women, Faculty members, and volunteers through Jobs with Justice.
WHAT: In commemoration of the protests in California last year on UC campuses across the state, students return to continue to protest lack of an accessible, affordable education. Hundreds will gather to take a stand that education is a right!
WHERE: Portland State Park Blocks on the Center Stage
WHEN: Rally and speakers at 1P.M. Followed by a march and bands until 3 P.M, March 4th 2010
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Mar 01 2010
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Hundreds Caravan to Desert Mining Town To Support Locked Out Miners |
BORON, CA - February 24th - A caravan of four big rig trucks and around 150 cars carried over 200 people and $30,000 in food to support lock out miners in the town of Boron last week. The miners have been lock out since January 31st by the Rio Tinto Corporation, a giant foreign-owned mining firm that operates one of the world’s largest borax mines near the town of Boron in California’s Mojave Desert. Miners were lockout and scabs bused in from out of state after new contact negotiations with Rio Tinto broke down. The situation, although barely mentioned in local corporate media, has drawn international attention in what many see as a clear case of illegal union busting. At stake is the livelihood of nearly 600 families. Reports from the newswire: Caravan to Rio Tinto to support miners locked out | | UFCW Delivers Food to Locked Out Miners in Desert
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Mar 01 2010
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SEIU Janitors Issue Statement on Weekend Contract Victory |
Twin Cities’ Janitors Win Full-Time Green Jobs, Better Health Insurance in New Contract
In a major victory for good jobs in the new green economy, Twin Cities’ janitors won support for the use of environmentally friendly cleaning products and transitions to day shift cleaning in a new tentative contract agreement reached in the early hours of Sunday morning after about 26 hours straight of bargaining.
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Feb 27 2010
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Students and Education Workers Gear Up for March 4th |
In anticipation for the statewide strike and day of action on March 4th activists have stepped up their actions with a renewed round of occupations in California. An occupation of a construction site at UC Berkeley resulted in a "mass riot" on Telegraph Avenue with hundreds of youth fighting the police. March 4th actions are planned throughout the Bay Area, California and beyond. In the East Bay strikes and walkouts are planned to converge in Downtown Oakland and an evening rally is planned for San Francisco.Related: UCSC Banner Drop to Mobilize for March 4th | Banner dropped at Umass Boston | March 4 Crowdsourced News
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