June 2012
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How Can the Chicago Teachers Union Win? →
Chicago teachers rally and march through the loop in May (Photo: Bartosz Brzezinski/Socialist Worker)
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Lee Sustar
June 28, 2012
Big strike authorization votes by unions in tough contract battles aren’t unusual. But the recent 90 percent vote by members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) to back a possible walkout was different—and it sets the stage for a contract...
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Can SEIU Help Vermonters Win Single Payer? ...or... →
Posted on June 26, 2012 by dsalaborblogmoderator
by Steve Early
Steve Early
MONTPELIER, VT.–While the nation waits for an overdue Supreme Court decision that will decide the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), another health care drama with wide implications for universal care is just starting in Vermont.
Prodded by a strong grassroots movement, the Vermont legislature...
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Organizing Wildfire and Wildcat Strikes Spread... →
Posted on June 25, 2012 by dsalaborblogmoderator
by Mike Elk
Mike Elk
After nearly two decades of Cablevision workers attempting to organize in New York City, it suddenly appears that they’re meeting success. This story perhaps precipitates a broader trend about how, given the hope of the Wisconsin Uprising and Occupy Wall Street, workers are reinvigorated to fight back against slashed wages...
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I wasn’t always a union thug →
By Dan Greenberg, Sylvania Education Association
When I started my career, teaching in a school across the street from a jail in Adelanto, California, I had the choice to pay $50 a month in union dues or not. Either way I was going to receive the same pay and benefits. So at 22 years old, right out of college, with several maxed-out credit cards, I couldn’t think of any way that I would be...
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“There’s a kind of a deeper point, that Social Security is based on the principle...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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What happens if America loses its unions →
By Harold Meyerson, Published: June 12
Are American unions history?
In the wake of labor’s defeated effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) last week, both pro- and anti-union pundits have opined that unions are in an all-but-irreversible decline. Privately, a number of my friends and acquaintances in the labor movement have voiced similar sentiments. Most don’t think that decline...
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1938 Maytag Strike →
Account of 1938 Maytag strike in Newton, Iowa by workers affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). The strike involved anti-communist rhetoric from state politicians and the company, political maneuvering by the Democratic Party, and eventually, military intervention, which broke the strike.
As layoffs hindered workers’ momentum in late...
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Watchthenationmagazine:
Is Obama using targeted killing to assassinate people who might otherwise have been detained? Jeremy Scahill says yes, and explains what that means for the war on terror (hint: it’s not good).
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Benefits withdrawn to punish low-waged workers for... →
The “right to strike” in the UK comes under further attack today, as Iain Duncan Smith announces plans to withdraw Working Tax Credit for workers who take strike action.
The new Universal Credit model of benefit payments, part of a massive overhaul of the welfare state which is systematically attacking the living standards of the most vulnerable sections of the working...
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Labour Start Petition: China: Who killed Li... →
Tell the Chinese Government to stop the oppression of labor activists! What a joke of “socialist” country. The Chinese state controlled unions do nothing for workers, and when workers try to actually better the conditions of their fellow human, they suddenly “commit suicide” and their bodies are rushed away. It’s defacto support for countries like these that is part...
