Protect Fundamental Human Rights by Passing the Employee Free Choice Act
The Employee Free Choice Act is the most important legislative proposal in at least a generation, and arguably since passage of the Wagner Act, to protect the fundamental human right of America's workers to form unions and bargain collectively.
Another Day, Another Defection
Matthew John Dowd was a former Democrat who defected due to disappointment over Bill Clinton. At some point this incredibly naïve man changed parties and joined the Bush Administration and in '04 he became W's chief campaign strategist.
AHA Quietly Passes Eviction Plan Amidst Shouting, Public Unaware
The Atlanta Housing Authority never called its Thursday, April 25, 2007, public hearing to order and appears to have passed the Consent Agenda–including mass evictions of public housing residents–while many in the audience were shouting 'Let the people speak!'
France: Delphi Demands Longer Hours for Lower Wages
The American parts maker wants to eliminate RTT of its workers in the Ardennes and to freeze their salaries for three years to “guarantee the continued existence of the site.”
India: May Day Manifesto of CITU, 2007
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) extends revolutionary greetings to the working class fraternity all over the world, on the historic May Day –– the day of the international solidarity of the working people.
Canada's ALCAN ruling: a move to privatize resources
The privatization of Canada's energy resources has taken a big leap forward with a BC Supreme Court ruling that awards multinational aluminum giant Alcan the right to sell electricity to BC Hydro.
