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Boeing’s Streak of Greediness and Arrogance
Ask Not What Your Company Can Do For You … The Boeing StrikeBy David Macaray / September 15, 2008 There’s an axiom in labor relations: When business is suffering, management will approach the workers and ask them to make the … Continue reading
Wal-Mart and the Loss of U.S. Jobs
‘Report shows Wal-Mart has played a major role in creating a record trade deficit with China’By S.M. Willhelm / The Rag Blog / September 11, 2008 Wal-Mart claims it creates jobs across America, but a new report shows a much … Continue reading
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Tagged AFL-CIO, China, Economy, Labor, Labor Unions, Trade Deficit, Wal-Mart
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Labor Day: Stop Corporate Bullying of Employees
Labor Day 2008: Support Employee Free ChoiceBy Michael Honey / September 1, 2008 Labor Day 2008 marks a moment of crisis for middle and working-class Americans. Housing, health care, transportation, education and job needs are growing acute in an economy … Continue reading
Democrats and Labor : Wal*Mart Running Scared
Of all companies to be whining about money. WAL*MART the so-called American company with 600 factories in CHINA and zero in America, they have the audacity to be pushing this line on their underpaid front-line employees. While Lee Scott and … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Business, Congress, Corporate Power, Democratic Party, Labor, Labor Unions, Presidential Campaign, Wal-Mart
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Social Change in America : Learning from History
Populist handbills. A flyer informing workers of a meeting that was to end in the Haymarket Riotof 1886. Police were called in when fighting broke out between striking workers and strikebreakers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in Haymarket, Illinois. … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics, FDR, History, Labor, Labor History, Labor Unions, Left, Michelle Obama, Progressive Movement, Progressives
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Truckers Blockade Traffic in Europe
Truck drivers parked on a highway leading out of Madrid yesterday, one of a number of roads they blocked. Other roads included some leading into the center of Barcelona and the border with France. Photo by Denis Doyle/Getty Images.Two truck … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Disobedience, Energy, Europe, Fuel Costs, Labor, Social Action
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Doug Zachary on the Passing of Folk Legend Utah Phillips
Reflections on Utah PhillipsBy Doug Zachary / The Rag Blog / May 27, 2008 [Singer, songwriter, labor organizer, Korean war vet and man of peace Utah Phillips died of congestive heart failure on May 23 at his home in Nevada … Continue reading
R.I.P. Utah Phillips
One of the great hobos, labor organizers, union men and singer/writer/mentors Utah Phillips passed away on Friday night. He was 73 years old and I suspect any reader of Songs:Illinois will be well aware of the work of Utah. Newer … Continue reading
May Day : Iraqi Workers Declare Solidarity With U.S. Unions
Union solidarity in the face of war From The Rag Blog / May Day / May 1, 2008 The following comes to us from U.S. Labor Against the War. It includes two May Day communications from the working people of … Continue reading
