Swapping Stories: Communications Campaign
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.
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.
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.
WEEK OF CALIF. TEACHER PROTESTS INCLUDES ARRESTS
WEEK OF CALIF. TEACHER PROTESTS INCLUDES ARRESTS
SACRAMENTO (PAI)—A week of statewide teacher protests in California, over threatened budget cuts that would devastate elementary and secondary schools and their students, included the arrest of 26 members of the California Teachers Association on May 13 after a sit-in at the capital building in Sacramento.
SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 2011 ILCA CONVENTION, SEPT 22-24
REGISTRATION BEGINS SOON! Mark your calendars for Sept. 22-24 in Seattle!
LABOR, DEMS PUSH NEW LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE TO REVITALIZE U.S. MANUFACTURING
LABOR, DEMS PUSH NEW, BIGGER LEGISLATIVE
PACKAGE ON REVITALIZING U.S. MANUFACTURING
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Organized labor and congressional Democrats are pushing a new, bigger package of legislation to help revitalize U.S. manufacturing, after a previous effort – which was more to score political points – failed in the last Congress.
MACHINISTS GATHER ALLIES AS BOEING BATTLE TURNS POLITICAL
MACHINISTS GATHER ALLIES AS
BOEING BATTLE TURNS POLITICAL
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—The Machinists are gathering allies as the battle over a top National Labor Relations Board official’s statement that Boeing broke labor law by moving aircraft production to anti-union South Carolina to retaliate against IAM heated up and turned political.
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.
LABOR PLANS MASS MOBILIZATION APRIL 4
LABOR PLANS MASS MOBILIZATION APRIL 4
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Labor is planning a mass mobilization nationwide on April 4 to support workers’ rights, specifically the right to collectively bargain.
The decision was reached at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Washington, March 1-2, according to a nationwide conference call of activists. But the council did not formally announce it.
GOP LAUNCHES WAR ON LABOR: OHIO JOINS NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
GOP LAUNCHES WAR ON LABOR: OHIO JOINS NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
By Bill Obbaggy
Editor, The Ohio Labor Citizen
Special to PAI
COLUMBUS, Ohio (PAI)--Close to 6,000 protesters demonstrated outside the
Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Feb. 22, as legislators – some of whom had to elbow
their way into the building – prepared for a 4 p.m. committee hearing on Senate Bill #5,
legislation to restrict and retract collective bargaining rights from thousands of state and
local workers.
