Swapping Stories: Change To Win
Is labor fighting its own civil war?
Is labor fighting its own civil war?
The Civil War in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
By Steve Early
Haymarket Books
ISBN 978-1-60846-099-1
Reviewed by Mike Matejka
UNIONS BUILD COALITION TO COMBAT STATE GOVERNMENTS’ AGGRESSION
UNIONS BUILD COALITION TO COMBAT
STATE GOVERNMENTS’ AGGRESSION
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—A wide-ranging coalition of unions, including the Fire Fighters, AFSCME, the Service Employees, the Teachers and the AFL-CIO, have created a coalition to combat state governments’ aggression against workers, their collective bargaining rights, their job protections and their pensions.
DOCUMENTS SHOW CHAMBER HIRED FIRMS TO INFILTRATE, DISCREDIT SEIU, CHANGE TO WIN, OTHERS
DOCUMENTS SHOW CHAMBER HIRED FIRMS TO INFILTRATE, DISCREDIT SEIU, CHANGE TO WIN, OTHERS
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce hired a lobbying firm, which in turn hired three computer security outfits, to infiltrate and discredit the Service Employees, Change To Win, a labor-funded Chamber watchdog organization and other progressive groups that oppose the business lobby’s agenda, released memos and e-mails show. The method used: “An underhanded cyber-campaign,” the source says.
Words of Witness
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UFCW CAMPAIGNING VS. WAL-MART’S NEW INVASION OF CHICAGO, NEW YORK, D.C.
UFCW CAMPAIGNING VS. WAL-MART’S NEW
INVASION OF CHICAGO, NEW YORK, D.C.
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
Wal-Mart, the monster retailer known for its always-low wages, always-bad benefits and always-negative impact on local businesses, is again trying to invade Chicago and New York, and has added Washington, D.C., to its list. And the United Food and Commercial Workers are once again campaigning against the anti-union, anti-worker behemoth. UFCW’s also picking up community support.
UNION LEADERS OFFER SPLIT REACTIONS TO OBAMA SPEECH
UNION LEADERS OFFER SPLIT
REACTIONS TO OBAMA SPEECH
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Union leaders offered split reactions to Democratic President Barack Obama’s Jan. 25 State of the Union address, with several praising his calls for more infrastructure jobs, while others emphasized specific causes.
Comments from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka weren’t totally uncritical.
UNIONS SPLIT ON NEW U.S.-KOREA TRADE PACT
UNIONS SPLIT ON NEW U.S.-KOREA TRADE PACT
WASHINGTON (PAI)—The Auto Workers and the United Food and Commercial Workers may be in the minority among top U.S. unions in backing the revised U.S.-Korea “Free Trade” agreement. Other players said the new pact negotiated by Democratic President Barack Obama falls short.
Ironically, the split could help the U.S.-Korea FTA pass Capitol Hill, most likely during the new, more-Republican 112th Congress that opens in January.
Great job keeping us so profitable. Now we have to let you go.
Great job keeping us so profitable. Now we have to let you go.
By Richard Negri
Let's say you spent years helping to build up an enormously profitable company. Then you find out you're being sacked two weeks before Christmas because the company wants to increase their profit margins even more. How would it make you feel? Don't answer, I think I know...
JOBS, SHOW OF POWER, POLITICS KEY THEMES FOR LEADERS, WORKERS AT ‘ONE NATION’ DEMO
JOBS, SHOW OF POWER, POLITICS KEY THEMES
FOR LEADERS, WORKERS AT ‘ONE NATION’ DEMO
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)--Campaigning for good jobs with good benefits, a
show of power against the Radical Right and politics through Election Day and
beyond were key themes for both union leaders speaking at the mass “One Nation”
demonstration in Washington on Oct. 2, and for rank-and-file unionists
questioned there.
