Troublemakers Blog
November 30, 2011 / Jane Slaughter
Clerical workers at United Auto Workers headquarters in Detroit are protesting layoffs that will take effect Friday. They picketed this month carrying signs that read “What about shared sacrifice?” and “Justice for ALL workers.”
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November 28, 2011 /
Frank Bardacke's Trampling Out the Vintage explains better than any other book how the United Farm Workers under the leadership of Cesar Chavez rose in the 1960s to become one of the most remarkable and successful unions in U.S. history but then crashed and burned so breathtakingly fast that by 1990 it had essentially disappeared from the California »
November 22, 2011 / Mischa Gaus
Verizon, look out—there’s a new union in town. A reform group took over a big New York City telecom local yesterday, pledging to re-energize the union. The election took place against the backdrop of a wrenching contract fight that’s dragged on since a two-week strike at Verizon in August.
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November 17, 2011 /
Why is James P. Hoffa headed for re-election in the Teamsters this week, despite presiding over a decade of contract concessions and pension cuts?
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November 11, 2011 /
Customer communication technicians in two Comcast offices in Massachusetts petitioned the National Labor Relations Board last Friday to supervise a union representation election.
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November 10, 2011 /
After 309 days sitting in on top of a 115-foot shipyard crane, a South Korean welder has won an agreement that her multinational employer will rehire 94 laid-off workers.
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November 09, 2011 / Jane Slaughter
Workers at General Motors’ Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kansas, have won the right to wear T-shirts that call their factory a "penitentiary." GM backed down and reversed the suspensions of workers disciplined for wearing the shirts.
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November 04, 2011 / Mark Brenner
FOX News host Stuart Varney had Occupy Wall Street protesters in his sights this Halloween, chiding occupiers and union activists for what he sees as a double standard.
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November 04, 2011 /
There is no debt crisis, but there is a “super committee” appointed to fix it. If the gang of 12 Congressional appointees has its way, Medicare, Social Security insurance, and Medicaid will be decimated to placate the infamous 1 percent.
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November 03, 2011 /
While Midwest governors who attacked public workers last winter are seeing tremendous public opposition, New York’s Andrew Cuomo continues to be buoyed by high approval ratings. The irony has not escaped members of the Public Employees Federation, who have worked under the threat of layoffs since the summer, when they rejected the Democratic governor’s »