Swapping Stories: Direct Action
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.
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.
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.
RIGHT-WING ATTACKS EXTEND TO GAINS DR. KING WON FOR WORKERS
RIGHT-WING ATTACKS EXTEND EVEN DOWN
TO GAINS DR. KING WON FOR WORKERS
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (PAI)—Even in Memphis.
That’s how far down the chain of state and local governments the Right Wing’s war on workers has extended – and take it from one who knows, Alvin Turner.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MASS AT ‘WE ARE ONE’ RALLIES, EVENTS
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MASS
AT ‘WE ARE ONE’ RALLIES, EVENTS
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them wearing red or sporting red-white-and-black pins, massed at rallies, teach-ins and other events nationwide on April 4 in a show of strength for workers’ rights.
UNIONISTS SUPPORT WOMAN WAL-MART WORKERS
UNIONISTS SUPPORT WOMAN WAL-MART WORKERS
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—As attorneys for Wal-Mart’s working women argued their landmark class-action suit inside the U.S. Supreme Court on March 29, unionists and their allies made their position clear in the plaza in front of the court’s portico:
They’re on the side of the working women.
WISCONSIN VOTE OUTRAGES UNION LEADERS
WISCONSIN VOTE OUTRAGES UNION LEADERS
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—The GOP Wisconsin senate’s middle-of-the-night vote on
March 9 to approve legislation stripping 200,000 state and local workers of their
collective bargaining rights outraged union leaders. Several called it a direct assault on
democracy, at least one said their union would support recalling state senators and AFL-
CIO President Richard Trumka said the fed was investigating suing.
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.
WALKER DUCKS D.C. PROTESTERS; VT. GOVERNOR LAUDS THEM
WALKER DUCKS D.C. PROTESTERS; VT. GOVERNOR LAUDS THEM
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Right Wing Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker, whose inflexible demand to strip 200,000 state and local workers of their collective bargaining rights has drawn nationwide protests against the GOP’s anti-worker agenda, ducked a confrontation with protesters in D.C. on Feb. 27.
Walker was scheduled to attend the National Governors Association meeting in D.C., starting that evening. He didn’t show up.
Uprisings Across USA in Solidarity with Public Workers
ILCA member videos, photos and stories that came in over the weekend from direct actions around the country in solidarity with the workers in Wisconsin and elsewhere who are fighting to defend their rights:
2/25:
Audio: Wisconsin Fight is Not About the Money by Mike Matejka
From Deb Kosloske, Wisconsin Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals (WFNHP): (via Amy Excell of IFT-AFT)
