Workers Rights and Jobs

The Door-To-Door Union Killers

March 13, 2016 Steven Greenhouse, www.theguardian.com Educate! Corporatism, Labor Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Steven Greenouse for The Guardian. Seattle, WA - For several months, Shawna Murphy, a home-based childcare provider in Seattle, had received a stream of emails, letters and robocalls – some two dozen of them – telling her she had the right to stop paying union dues. Then early one afternoon, while the six children in her charge were napping, a man with a briefcase knocked on her door. At first Murphy thought he was a lawyer, but then she realized he might be a state inspector of childcare providers. So she opened the door. “He said there’s this supreme court case that will impact me, and he pulled out this leaflet and told me that I don’t have to be part of the union and don’t have to pay union dues,” said Murphy, a member of the Service Employees International Union. “I told him, ‘I’m a proud supporter of the union, and you can leave now.’”

Tens Of Thousands Protest French Plan To Lengthen Work Week

March 11, 2016 Samuel Petrequin, www.usnews.com Resist! France, Protests, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Samuel Petrequin for Associated Press - PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of people protested across France on Wednesday against President Francois Hollande's determination to achieve what his conservative predecessor didn't even dare to try — tamper with the 35-hour workweek. Workers, unemployed and youths joined forces on Wednesday, answering calls from student organizations and unions in more than 200 cities across France to try to kill the bill, which has even divided Hollande's ruling Socialist party.

Activists Protest Wendy’s For Food Justice For Farmworkers

March 7, 2016 Meagan Dellavilla, www.foodtank.com Resist! Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Food and Agriculture, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Meagan Dellavilla for Food Tank - On Thursday, March 3, hundreds are set to march to the office of Wendy’s Board Chairman, Nelson Peltz. Farmers, religious leaders, students, and consumers are hitting the streets of New York City to demand that the fast food giant joins the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) award-winning Fair Food Program (FFP). Regarded as one of the best workplace monitoring programs in the United States, the FFP is an innovative partnership between farmers, farmworkers, and fourteen major food retailers.

Unions And Coops: How Workers Can Survive And Thrive

March 5, 2016 Brian Van Slyke, www.truth-out.org Create! Cooperatives, Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Brian Van Slyke for Truthout - The year 2008 was when the big banks were bailed out, but it was also the year that catalyzed one group of window makers into democratically running their own factory. On the former industrial hub of Goose Island in Chicago, the employees of Republic Windows and Doors made headlines after they were locked out of their jobs just before Christmas without the back pay or severance they were owed. Organized by the United Electrical Workers Union, these displaced workers did exactly what the ownership hoped they wouldn't do.

Unions: Direct Or Indirect Action

February 29, 2016 Dennis Gravey, www.hamptoninstitution.org Strategize! Economics, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Dennis Gravey for The Hampton Institute - It is very possible that in the next few years millions of American workers could win significant wage increases through minimum wage legislation, and do so without militant strikes or building their capacity for shop-floor direct action. For those of us fighting for significant wage increases this is great news, but for those of us fighting for an overthrow of capitalism, this should be very worrisome. Central to this tension is a strategic question, namely, Shall unionists prioritize direct or indirect action? If we aim for revolution, we must choose the former?

Union Workers Demand SF General Hospital Hire More Nurses

February 27, 2016 Noah Arroyo, www.missionlocal.org Resist! Nurses, Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Noah Arroyo for Mission Local - Union staff and hospital workers on Thursday revived a long-standing dispute over staffing levels at San Francisco General Hospital. About 200 workers and members of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 picketed outside the hospital’s entrance at noon, calling for administrators to end a nurse shortage that has persisted for about 10 years, they said. The hospital will soon open its new facilities, named after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but protesters said that existing departments are already in a dire state and need attention now.

General Strike Cripples Business Across Guinea

February 18, 2016 Staff, www.afp.com Resist! Guinea, Protests, Strikes, Unions, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of AFP - Conakry - Shops, banks and offices remained closed and streets empty of traffic in Guinea's capital and in other cities Monday, the first day of an open-ended general strike called by trade unions. Union leaders are demanding that prices of basic commodities and fuel be brought down by the government, while also pressing home pay claims. "The strike is being followed 100 percent," Louis Mbemba Soumah, general secretary of the Syndicated Union of Workers of Guinea (USTG), told AFP.

As Coal Goes Bankrupt, They Steal From Workers & Screw Environment

February 18, 2016 Meteor Blades, www.dailykos.com Educate! Coal, Environment, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Meteor Blades for Daily Kos - Much is made of the “war on coal” in some circles, but the war on coal miners is mostly ignored. That war, of course, has been going on for more than a century in various forms. Company “gun-thugs” once battled unions with bullets, and company lawyers fought black lung legislation with pens and lobbying. Later, they did the same with environmental regulations. Today, the battered U.S. coal industry, much of it on the verge of bankruptcy or already over the precipice, is doing what it can to steal workers’ benefits...

Low-Wage Workers Earn So Little They Must Rely On Public Assistance

February 17, 2016 David Cooper, www.epi.org Educate! Income, Jobs and Wages, Workers Rights and Jobs

By David Cooper for Economic Policy Institute - There is an enduring myth that people who rely on public assistance are unwilling to work. However, there are 41.2 million working Americans (nearly 30 percent of the workforce) who receive public assistance—and nearly half of these workers (19.3 million) have full-time jobs. Not surprisingly, these workers are concentrated in jobs paying low hourly wages. A majority (53.1 percent) of workers earning less than $12.16 per hour—the bottom 30 percent of wage earners—earn so little on the job that they must rely on public assistance to make ends meet.

Labor Unrest On The Uprise In The United States

February 15, 2016 Sam Knight, www.districtsentinel.com Resist! Labor Movement, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Sam Knight for The District Sentinel - Industrial unrest in the United States was more frequent and widespread last year, according to annual data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were twelve “major work stoppages” measured by BLS, up from eleven the year before. The disputes involved about 47,000 workers—a year-over-year increase of 13,000. It was the first year since 2011 that saw the number of major work stoppages increased in the US, and the first year since 2012 to see the number of workers involved in industrial disputes go up.

Thousands Of Taxi Drivers In U.S. And U.K. Protest Uber

February 12, 2016 Gwyn Topham and Staff, www.theguardian.com, www.6abc.com Resist! Protests, Uber, United Kingdom (UK), Workers Rights and Jobs

By Gwyn Topham for The Guardian and Staff of 6 ABC News - Taxi drivers brought central London to a standstill to highlight the threats to their trade from Uber and changing regulation. Organisers said about 8,000 drivers took part in the protest on Wednesday afternoon, as traditional black cabs blocked lanes the length of Whitehall and halted much traffic around Westminster and the West End. Black-cab drivers have been incensed by the actions of Transport for London (TfL) in licensing Uber, blurring the lines between traditional taxis and private hire.

Tempers Flare, Tires Burn In French Taxi, Aviation Strikes

January 27, 2016 Staff, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! France, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of Aljazeera - Striking taxi drivers in France blocked key roads and set fire to tires on a "black Tuesday" that saw simultaneous strikes by air traffic controllers, civil servants, hospital workers and teachers. Some 300 taxi drivers furious over competition from non-licensed private hire cabs blocked the capital's ring road at a key intersection in the west of the city, lighting fires and throwing smoke bombs. "Today our survival is at stake, we are fed up of meetings and negotiations," said Ibrahima Sylla, spokesman of the Taxis de France collective.

Occupy Ghana ‘Red Friday’ Protest Against Government

January 24, 2016 Delali Adogla-Bessa, citifmonline.com Resist! Austerity, Corruption, Ghana, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Delali Adogla-Bessa foe Citifmonline.com/Ghana. On January 22, 2016, Occupy Ghana,marked Red Friday to protest what they describe as the government’s “destructive” economic policies. They also protested Government’s decision to accept what they call “two highly suspicious terrorists” in Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, “under the pretext of honouring international neighbourliness and compassion with America.” Ghanaians wore red to call to government attention concerns raised by the pressure group and the citizenry including the hikes in utility tariffs, the exorbitant taxes on petroleum products, the “shady” Ameri deal and corruption among other things.

6 Arrested At Logan Airport In Wage Protest

January 19, 2016 Andy Rosen, www.bostonglobe.com Resist! Boston, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Protests, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Andy Rosen for Boston Globe - State Police arrested six activists Monday at Logan Airport after dozens of activists flooded into a terminal to protest the treatment of workers at the travel hub, shouting slogans decrying “poverty wages” as some refused troopers’ orders to disperse. The event came as part of a national string of protests to draw attention to the wages paid to people who perform airport jobs like checking bags or cleaning terminals and airplanes. Though the employees have jobs at airports, they generally work for companies hired by airlines.

TPP & SOTU: The Facts vs. Obama

January 12, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.FlushTheTPP.org Educate! Banking, China, Climate Change, Democracy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food Safety, Globalization, Human Rights, Internet Freedom, NAFTA, TPP, Trade Deficit, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Flush The TPP. President Obama will make his push for the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a major part of the State of the Union as this is a major goal of his final year in office. This is an opportunity for a widespread discussion of the TPP and what impacts it will have on the economy, workers, the environment and more. Just yesterday the World Bank published a comprehensive analysis of the TPP and concluded that by 2030 the TPP will have a miniscule 0.4% impact on US trade. The economic impact for the United States is minimal but the impact on workers, the environment, food safety, traditional energy and the overall balance between corporate power and government is dramatic. The president’s claims about the TPP should be examined closely and measured against the facts of what the TPP will actually do and the impact similar trade agreements have had. We know from past comments by the president and the US Trade Representative that their sales pitch for the TPP is not always consistent with the facts.

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