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Tomato farming is tough work for the pickers and the growers. A University of Florida study showed that neither the workers' wages nor the wholesale price of tomatoes has risen for
If workers go on strike, Delphi can hire new employees and then fire them before their 90-day probation period is up, about the time Chiaravalli expects Delphi to need to reach an agreement...
Perhaps not by chance, on May 1st, when the world had it's eyes on the fate of workers in the US, an agreement was signed giving 450 poverty-wage janitors the right to form a union
May 1st 2006 felt like I was living in a democratic country again. Small restaurants, mom and pop stores like panaderias and mercados, body shops and garages, nail parlors and beauty...
Some of those with the most to lose economically are staunchly dedicated to the work boycott. At the Home Depot in Mission Valley this week, day laborers waiting for work in the parking...
Like a train without brakes, plans for an immigrant work and school boycott on May 1 continue to build steam across the nation. But some prominent pro-immigrant leaders and groups,
Nearly two months into a strike by janitors at the University of Miami, a determined band of South Florida clergy has rallied religious support for workers that crosses traditional
If passed, the legislation could usher in a new era of segregated housing. A throwback in many ways to the early 20th century model of company towns, these new communities would cluster...
In the UK there is no "right to strike", only immunity against legal recourse providing a lengthy balloting process is followed. In France they have the right to take immediate industrial...
"People were really looking for more flexibility and less stress," he said. "That just got pounded into our heads." The top three complaints of stress were too much work at 28 percent,...
With an overwhelming strike authorization vote in hand, and a bankruptcy judge's decision pending, Delta Comair flight attendants represented by Teamsters Local 513 today called on
In contrast to this image, critics say that in terms of wages and benefits, working conditions, sweatshop-style foreign suppliers, and effects on local retail communities, big box Target...
A recent independent investigation into the alleged human rights abuses at Coke's bottling plants in Colombia, led by New York City Councilman Hiram Monserrate, verified 179 separate...
Obviously those who have something to say about our regressive tax system are outnumbered, and discouraged. Unfortunately, tax and wealth distribution fairness is another victim of
To fix the problems with our tax system, the participants of ''Since Sliced Bread'' proposed many idea, some of which we presented yesterday. Today, we bring you a few more of a sampling...
There is strong consensus that our present tax system is unfair to those who work hardest in America and robs average citizens of a voice; that it rewards bad behavior and doesn't do...
''This is the first national agreement that we're aware of, that's ever dealt with workers or guest workers in this country,'' Arturo Rodriguez, UFW president
Once again we see how with the government in the hands of corporation, not only workers loose their rights and their livelihood. Our children loose too.
Cheaper labor is not the real cost problem. Other costs are. These costs are driven by management and egos of management. The first place to streamline and downsize is in administration,...
Americans with annual incomes of $1 million or more reaped 43 percent of all the savings on investment taxes in 2003. The savings for these taxpayers averaged about $41,400 each. The...
The AFL-CIO announced yesterday that it finds itself in a different possition from the Change-to-Win coalition regarding the issues. The AFL-CIO has rejected the inclusion of a guest...
''FPI's new evidence shows that a higher minimum wage not only benefits workers but can spur economic growth that benefits small business owners,'' said KRC labor economist Mark Price....
Protecting the rural sector from cheap, highly subsidized, US agricultural products would help reestablish livelihoods on small farms, allow people to stay on the land and preclude
The Teamsters Union supports measures passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee that include smart border security measures, as well as earned legalization for the 12 million undocumented...
"The study points out that wages in the region have not kept up with inflation," said Michael L. Dolfman, regional commissioner of the bureau. Annual inflation in the region, reached...
The U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit Boston, upheld findings made by the Labor Department in which it found Vieques Air Link Inc. (VAL) violated the whistleblower provisions Act...
Michigan's nonprofit community hospitals provided more than $1 billion in uncompensated care and in the unreimbursed costs of government programs (such as Medicaid and Medicare) and...
Hoping to stem persistent hunger and improve nutrition for poor children, the Chicago Public Schools and Greater Chicago Food Depository are sending kids home from school for the weekend...
Job security, health care, vacations and pensions are fragmenting and falling away. I fear the worst.
"Any way you look at this, these people's lifestyles are changing drastically and not for the better," said Gary N. Chaison, professor of labor relations at Clark University in Worcester,...
Nearly 65 million women are now in America's workforce, including three-quarters of U.S. mothers of children younger than 18.
The survey of over 1,500 families-from very low-income, to moderate- and high-income groups-also showed surprising agreement both on causes of poverty and on measures to reduce it.
How is it possible that such educated and intelligent people forget the simple fact that CEO salaries are set by a board of peers or by a group of CEO wannabes whose salaries go up
There's also good news for the janitors at the University of Miami. After three weeks of protests over low pay wages, janitors will get a raise of 25%, announced the Univeristy president...
In a show of strength that surprised even the organizers, tens of thousand of immigrants poured into the Loop Friday, bringing their calls for immigration reform to the heart of the...
Why doesn't Mr. Bush get any economic respect? I think it's because most Americans sense, correctly, that he doesn't care about people like them. We're living in a time when many Americans...
Overall, Oxford Analytica predicts that the influence of unions will remain stable in the near term due to the shrinking manufacturing workforce. This also includes the fact that service,...
Ignoring such violations of workers' rights, the Bush administration is proposing to include Ecuador in the so-called Andean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA). Like the Central American Free...
''When contractors pay less than agreed-upon wages, or do not pay at all, they violate labor laws and subject honest contractors to unfair competition,'' said Santa Cruz Police Chief...
After the strikes, the vietnamese government increased the minimum wage in foreign invested factories by nearly 40 percent. Monthly earnings went from less than $40 a month to a minimum...
Shalala, who as the University of Miami president makes more than $500,000 a year, . . . declined to comment about the walk out beyond an earlier statement, noting the formation of
The head of the second-largest labor union in the country, said: "We are not going to let the right of companies to fire at the snap of a finger become entrenched in French law. We
David Groves, a spokesman for the Washington State Labor Council, said he's not surprised that there's been some resistance to the union security clause, but it is an essential tool...
Census data released this past August suggests that the number of Americans in poverty grew slightly in 2004 (the most recent year for which data is available) to 12.7 percent from
"County workers provide many vital services that make Santa Cruz County a better place to live," one of the organizers said. "Many of these services require a level of training and
Whather the economy is growing as fast as it should be or not, the simple fact is that, in America, we leave in the world's reachest country, and disposable income abounds. But what...
Union workers are calling for developers to use local contractors to build a string of Walgreens stores between Rochester to Geneva, NY.
Americans have always believed that hard work will bring rewards, but vast numbers now cannot meet their bills even with two or three jobs. More than one in 10 citizens live below the...
The suit asserts that the genetically modified alfalfa will probably contaminate conventionally grown alfalfa at a fast pace, ultimately forcing farmers to pay for Monsanto's patented...
AUT general secretary Sally Hunt said university staff had run out of patience. "Employers must respond immediately with an offer - not talks about talks - if they are to prevent disruption."
"For...
"This is a very good job," said industry analyst Art Hatfield of investment bank and brokerage Morgan Keegan. "It has all the kind of benefits associated with the U.S. manufacturing...
"Hell, no, don't bring no one in from nowhere," said Johnson, a 47-year-old Mississippi native who founded his consortium of 35 minority contractors a decade ago. "Train the people
Consumer advocates, trial lawyers and state officials say the recent moves to preempt state laws through federal regulation are a backdoor effort by the Bush administration to protect...
"We can never enter into a trade agreement that does not have labor and environmental standards as part of trade-Clinton said-. If we don't have trade agreements that lift the bottom...
Since 2001, the Pentagon's budget has increased by 20 percent. The United States now accounts for almost half of world military spending, meaning it's budget is nearly as much as the...
Packers and mechanics at the Blue Diamond plant in Sacramento, CA, say their employer has denied them respect, raises, and benefits for many years. Last summer, they began organizing...
UPI reports that some 20 percent of U.S. nurses have left the profession, and 55 percent of nurses surveyed by their professional association said they would not recommend the career...
Globalization has so far not led to the creation of sufficient and sustainable decent work opportunities around the world. That has to change, and as many leaders have already said
Who benefits from "consumer directed" health savings? People with large incomes who have the ability to put significant amounts of pre -tax dollars into a health savings plan.
A weekly update on avarice in America.
Nearly one-half of Americans now live in states that require wages higher than the $5.15 an hour set by Congress nine years ago. And the trend of states raising their minimum wages
Dozens of hotel workers and community allies demonstrated last week against a local hotel owner who has not signed a labor contract in more than 2 years, and who has denied his employees...
"Too many women get stuck on a 'mummy track' of low pay and low prospects. The pay gap for women working part-time, at nearly 40%, has barely improved since the Sex Discrimination Act...
Outside of the 600 executives the Delphi plan earmarks for bonuses, none of the 24,000 workers the UAW represents at Delphi-and none of the workers in Delphi's five other unions-will...
Employers still think workers will quit only if disgusted by poor management, and don't grasp the extent to which employees are contemplating the increased salary, opportunities for...
Three months ago, SEIU asked Americans to submit common sense ideas on how we can strengthen our economy and improve the day-to-day lives of working men and women and their families....
Three months ago, SEIU asked Americans to submit common sense ideas on how we can strengthen our economy and improve the day-to-day lives of working men and women and their families....
We reproduce clips from an interview by Amy Goodman, from DemocracyNow.org.
Today, we bring clips from an interview by Amy Goodman, from DemocracyNow.org.
Timbuk2 distributed checks totaling more than $1 million at its Mission District factory to 40 employees participating in its wealth-sharing program.
Six years ago Johnson was earning more than twice as much money--$29 an hour--at a nuclear power plant in nearby Clinton. Then he got laid off and tumbled into an underworld of low
Many Americans still believe that the U.S. health-care system is the best in the world. But the fact remains that Americans live shorter lives, with more disabilities, than people in...
"The restructuring plan announced this morning by Ford is extremely disappointing and devastating news for the many thousands of hard-working men and women who have devoted their working...
Seems like one of the key things in modern American society is to appeal to the masses of so-called "professionals" who don't see themselves as "labor," and don't realize it's not a...
"The government is giving a green light to the coal operators to violate safety"
"This is a protest movement of Wal-Mart workers uniting to make their lives better at work and in their communities," said Rick Smith.
Is it any of your business how much your boss makes? Well, when you do, It will cause your eyes to pop!
Labor will take its major victory from Maryland's health care vote this week to 31 other states, hoping to capitalize on anti-Wal-Mart sentiment and to build momentum in state legislatures...
''Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality." --M. L. King Jr.
Rising financial risks for American families
Unions have got to find a language that supports ethically the actions they are taking, and that language exists in the ideals of the Civil Rights Movement.
Even if inflation in the metropolitan area returns to its 2004 pre-gas hike level of 3.5 percent, the transit workers will be looking at a real wage cut.
Productivity statistics may be misleading.
