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Five Reasons To Care About The Verizon Strike

April 14, 2016 Mackenzie Baris, www.jwj.org , ,
By Mackenzie Baris for Jobs With Justice - Today, unions of working people at Verizon announced that theywill strike on Wednesday morning if their bosses fail to come to the table to negotiate a mutually beneficial agreement. More than 39,000 Verizon employees, members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), are ready to take the streets to demand a fair return on their work. During the last round of contract negotiations in 2011, Verizon came to the table with a long list of demands that would have undone decades of hard-earned progress.

Bangladesh Coal Plant Protests Continue After Demonstrators Killed

April 13, 2016 John Vidal, www.theguardian.com , , ,
By John Vidal for The Guardian - Bangladeshi villagers staged further protests on Tuesday after police opened fire and killed at least four people demonstrating against the planned construction of two large Chinese-financed coal-fired power stations. According to police and eyewitness reports, several thousand villagers gathered in the coastal town of Gandamara near Chittagong on Monday, to protest against the two power plants. These are expected to force the eviction of several thousand people in a fertile coastal farming areas and the demolition of temples and schools.

Verizon Workers Announce Strike Deadline Of Wednesday, April 13th

April 12, 2016 Staff, www.fiercetelecom.com , ,
By Staff of Fierce Telecom - After trying for ten months to reach a fair contract, nearly 40,000 Verizon workers from Massachusetts to Virginia will go on strike at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, April 13 if a fair agreement is not reached by then. The Verizon strike will be by far the largest work stoppage in the country in recent years. "We're standing up for working families and standing up to Verizon's corporate greed," said CWA District 1 Vice President Dennis Trainor.

Occupy Buenos Aires: Workers’ Movement Transformed City

April 11, 2016 Matt Kennard and Ana Caistor-Arendar, www.theguardian.com , , ,
By Matt Kennard and Ana Caistor-Arendar for The Guardian - The Hotel Bauen in downtown Buenos Aires looks like its best days are behind it. The art deco interior is crumbling, three of the lifts are out, and the whole place looks like it could do with a lick of paint. It’s an unlikely candidate to be at the centre of perhaps the most successful worker occupation movement in the world. Bauen was opened in 1978, thanks in no small part to a subsidy from the military junta of the time, to provide five-star accommodation for travellers to the World Cup held in the country that same year.

Roots And Contours Of Worker Rebellion In A Changing China

April 9, 2016 Herman Rosenfeld, www.socialistproject.ca , ,
By Herman Rosenfeld for The Socialist Project - It is impossible to ignore the large and growing wave of worker strikes and protests now rocking China. Just last year there were over 2700 actions, double the numbers of 2014 and more than 500 during this past January alone. They are in response to the Chinese government's restructuring program of wage cuts, worker layoffs, and workplace closures during an economic slowdown and plans to move away from the export-oriented strategy followed in this stage of the reform period.

“Gig Economy”; Another Vicious Attack On Ordinary Working Slobs

April 8, 2016 Mike Whitney, www.counterpunch.org , ,
By Mike Whitney for Counter Punch - “Contrary to the rising-tide hypothesis, the rising tide has only lifted the large yachts, while many of the smaller boats have been dashed on the rocks.” Joseph Stiglitz, economist American plutocrats and their political lackeys in congress have implemented a plan that’s putting pressure on wages and further decimating the already-battered middle class. By sustaining high levels of unemployment over a long period of time, US elites have “restructured the labor force”...

Berry Farmworkers Toil 12 Hours A Day For $6. Now Demanding Raise

April 5, 2016 Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, www.thinkprogress.org , ,
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee for Think Progress - Some of the farmworkers who make it possible for U.S. consumers to have berries for breakfast are paid about $6 a day. Those farmworkers include children toiling for 12 hours a day at 85 percent the amount of money that adults get paid. Many farmworkers do not get lunch and rest breaks and are subjected to terrible housing conditions. Hoping to rectify these issues, farmworkers in the United States and in Mexico have been on a three-year-long fight to get Driscolls — the world’s largest berry distributor — to recognize their unions...

Chicago Airport Workers Join 9-City Strike For Higher Wages And Union

April 4, 2016 Branko Marcetic, www.inthesetimes.com , , , ,
By Branko Marcetic for In This Times - Barnett says she’s currently relying financially on her daughter, who works. She hopes that with a raise and benefits, such as health care, sick leave and paid time off, her daughter will be able to go back to college and get an undergraduate and and even a graduate degree. Sadaf Subijano, 42, told a similar story. Despite being a security officer who has been at the airport for 20 years, Subijano makes only $12 an hour, a wage she says she would have a “difficult time” on without the financial support of her husband.

Thousands Take To Streets In France To Protest Labor Reform

April 4, 2016 Sylvie Corbet, www.newson6.com , , ,
By Sylvie Corbet for Associated Press PARIS (AP) - Tens of thousands of workers and youths took to the streets of France to protest, sometimes violently, a government reform meant to make it easier to hire and fire employees and to relax the country's strict 35-hour workweek. As train drivers, teachers and others went on strike, student organizations and seven employee unions combined to condemn the Socialist government's bill, which they argue will badly erode hard-won worker protections.

$7,8 Million Wage Theft Settlement For Chinese Workers

March 29, 2016 Staff, www.aapress.com ,
By Staff of Asian American Press - LOS ANGELES (March 18, 2016) — A diverse crowd of workers, advocates and journalists gathered at the UCLA Labor Center to celebrate a class action victory for more than 200 employees of Chinese Daily News. After more than a decade of hard fought litigation, they obtained a $7.8 million settlement against one of the leading Chinese language newspapers in the country. This class action victory represents one of the largest wage justice settlements in Asian American history.

California Reaches Deal To Raise Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour

March 28, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Hoping to avoid a costly ballot fight, California lawmakers and labor unions on Saturdayreportedly reached an agreement to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour gradually by 2023. Governor Jerry Brown is expected to make a formal announcement on Monday, but a source close to the negotiations revealed the content of the deal to the Los Angeles Times two days ahead. "According to a document obtained by The Times, the negotiated deal would boost California's statewide minimum wage from $10 an hour to $10.50 on Jan. 1, 2017

Immigrant Workers In NYC Unmask A New Movement

March 24, 2016 Arianna Schindle and Basma Eid, www.wagingnonviolence.org , ,
By Arianna Schindle and Basma Eid for Waging Nonviolence - Omar Trinidad, pulls off a mask, as he speaks to a room of restaurant, retail, day labor, street vendor and domestic workers from across New York City. “Being a day-laborer does not make me invisible, it makes me indispensable. Being a street vendor does not make anyone less worthy, it makes us unstoppable. To build a movement, let’s take off the mask of fear! Basta ya.” For Trinidad, a member-leader at New Immigrant Community Empowerment, or NICE, ending exploitation of day laborers is not enough.

Farmworkers Fight For Food And Job Justice

March 23, 2016 Staff, www.boycottsakumaberries.com , , ,
By Staff of Boycott Sakuma Berries - Burlington, WA- Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) an independent farmworker union comprised of 450 migrant farmworkers based in Burlington is embarking on a month long tour throughout the West Coast to organize a major offensive against the Ag giant Driscoll’s Berries. After two and half years of waging a historic fight to end wage theft, poverty wages, inhumane production standards, and retaliation for organizing at Driscoll’s supplier Sakuma Bros Berry Farm

China: Mass Mining Workers’ Demonstration In Heilongjiang Coal Mine Town

March 16, 2016 Parson Young, www.marxist.com , , ,
By Parson Young for In Defense of Marxism - The Shuang Mining Corporation, a state-owned mining company which employs over 61,000 workers, is valued at 7.5 billion RMB (roughly $11 billion USD) and is listed as the 38th most prominent mining company of China. The company has reportedly been owed its workers significant amount of monthly wages since 2014. The company has only provided workers 800 RMB ($123 USD) per month for living expenses when workers were supposed to receive a monthly salary of up to 1000 RMB ($154 USD). Many reported that they have not received their salaries for over two years.

Farmworkers Protest By Home Of Wendy’s Billionaire Chairman

March 14, 2016 Staff, www.cbsnews.com , , ,
By Staff of CBS and AP - PALM BEACH, Fla. - Hundreds of protesters, many farmworkers, led by Ethel Kennedy, demonstrated near the home of Wendy's fast food chain's chairman in hopes of convincing the company to pay a penny-per-pound fee for its tomatoes to supplement some farmworkers' wages. The Palm Beach Post reports the Immokalee Coalition of Farmworker' march near billionaire Nelson Peltz's home was peaceful Saturday. A federal judge had ruled the coalition could use loudspeakers but said marchers must remain on the sidewalk.
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