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HOTEL WORKERS RALLY VS. SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ON THE JOB
HOTEL WORKERS RALLY VS. SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ON THE JOB
NEW YORK (PAI)—“There once was a union maid, who never was afraid,” begins the old song about activist union women. Well, members of Unite Here – real union maids – were not afraid when they spoke up the week of June 6-11 against sexual exploitation of maids and other hotel workers by hotel guests.
RED CROSS FORCES PHILA.-N.J. AFT WORKERS TO STRIKE
RED CROSS FORCES PHILA.-N.J. AFT WORKERS TO STRIKE
PHILADELPHIA (PAI)—Continuing its campaign to strip its blood bank workers of their rights and their health care, the American Red Cross – one of the nation’s largest charities – has forced some 250 nurses and blood donor collectors in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey to strike, over blood bank safety issues.
UNIONS SAVE LIVES
UNIONS SAVE LIVES
By Dick Meister
A miner's life is like a sailor's
'Board a ship to cross the waves
Every day his life's in danger
Still he ventures being brave
---Traditional labor song
A new study shows that unionization is a sure way to dramatically lessen the
many deaths and serious injuries that have been all too common in the
nation's coal mines.
That's the unequivocal conclusion of the independent study of coal mining
between 1993 and 2008 conducted by Stanford law professor Allson Morantz and
FIRE FIGHTERS TO STOP GIVING TO FEDERAL CANDIDATES
FIRE FIGHTERS TO STOP GIVING TO FEDERAL CANDIDATES
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—The Fire Fighters, long known for their bipartisan impact on Capitol Hill, have become the second big union to decide their campaign finance committee will no longer give money to federal candidates, at least for now.
They may not be the last.
VERMONT TAKES STEP TOWARDS SINGLE- PAYER HEALTH CARE; NURSES LOBBY FOR NATIONAL LAW
VERMONT TAKES FIRST STEP TOWARDS STATE SINGLE-
PAYER HEALTH CARE; NURSES LOBBY FOR NATIONAL LAW
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
BURLINGTON, Vt. (PAI)—The state of Vermont has taken the first step towards creating a statewide single-payer government-run health care system. And one of the nation’s top nurses unions will lobby in early June for a national single-payer law.
NLRB: THE RAT IS LEGAL
NLRB: THE RAT IS LEGAL
WASHINGTON (PAI)—The labor movement’s giant inflatable rat is legal, even at demonstrations in front of secondary employers, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled on May 26.
In a case involving Sheet Metal Workers Local 15 and Brandon Regional Medical Center – which hired below-wage non-union temps to build its addition years ago – the board voted 3-1 that use of the rat on a flatbed truck parked in public more than 100 feet from the hospital entrances, is kosher. So is leafleting of passing patients.
ASIAN-AMERICANS REPORT VARIED FORMS OF JOB DISCRIMINATION
ASIAN-AMERICANS REPORT VARIED FORMS OF JOB DISCRIMINATION
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Asian-Americans are reporting varied forms of job discrimination, with complicating factors – cultural and economic – that make it extra hard for them to win rights, wages and benefits, a panel told D.C. unionists on May 21.
Labor and democracy: Why is ALEC attacking labor?
Why is ALEC attacking labor?
by Scott Marshall, Peoples World
Have you met ALEC yet? ALEC is the American Legislative Exchange Council. Basically it is one of the main ways big business drafts legislation for its "friends" in state legislatures to pass. ALEC's private sector board of directors reads like the "Who's Who" of big business. If you really want to get to know ALEC, read the American Association for Justice's report here.
TRUMKA REDEFINES FIGHT WITH RIGHT AS MORAL STRUGGLE
TRUMKA REDEFINES FIGHT WITH RIGHT AS MORAL
STRUGGLE, ADDS FED WILL RE-DO POLITICAL PROGRAM
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is redefining workers’ battle with the Radical Right as a moral struggle, saying it involves the nation’s future.
But since the moral struggle also has a political aspect, Trumka adds the Fed is planning an overhaul of its political program to make it a year-round operation.
