Workers Issues in the US
“We face pay freezes but they’ve given $700 billion to Wall Street”
Detroit autoworkers denounce demands for job, wage cuts
By our reporting team, November 20, 2008
Autoworkers in Detroit denounced demands for additional wage and benefit concessions, which have been raised in the debate over a possible government bailout of the auto industry.
As MTA demands deep cutbacks
New York transit union president signs no-strike pledge
By Alan Whyte, November 19, 2008
Two months before a contract deadline for New York City’s 38,000 transit workers, the TWU Local 100 president has surrendered the right to strike in exchange for a deal between the city and the unio...
Boeing: engineers’ union sellout follows betrayal of machinists’ strike
By Hector Cordon, November 17, 2008
Negotiators for the union representing engineers and technicians at aerospace manufacturing giant Boeing have reached a tentative four-year agreement that will do nothing to stop outsourcing or attack...
Boeing machinists ratify contract
By Hector Cordon, November 3, 2008
Boeing machinists voted Saturday to end their eight-week strike against Boeing, approving a four-year contract.
Machinists union accepts job-cutting deal in bid to end Boeing strike
By Hector Cordon and Barry Grey, October 29, 2008
The IAM, representing 27,000 striking Boeing workers in Washington, Oregon and Kansas, has signed a tentative contract with the airplane manufacturer that is a betrayal of the workers’ seven-week st...
New York City cops arrest immigrant day laborers
By Luis Arce and Bill Van Auken, October 29, 2008
The arrests last week of immigrants workers seeking casual labor has sent a chilling warning throughout Jackson Heights, a heavily immigrant neighborhood in Queens.
Stella D’oro strikers rally in the Bronx, New York
By A. Wood and Steve Light, October 22, 2008
Two hundred bakery workers, on strike at the Stella D’Oro plant in the Bronx, New York for more than two months, held a rally Saturday to oppose wage-cutting demands by the private equity firm, whic...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
October 21, 2008
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US: Screen Actors leadership calls for federal mediator
By Ramon Valle, October 21, 2008
The Screen Actors Guild, which has been working for four-and-a-half months without a contract, held its annual national membership meeting in Los Angeles on Sunday.
“Working Poor” report: Nearly 30 percent of US families subsist on poverty wages
By Tom Eley, October 16, 2008
A report released Tuesday by the Working Poor Families Project reveals that more than 28 percent of American families with one or both parents employed are living in poverty.
Talks collapse in Boeing strike
By Hector Cordon, October 15, 2008
Federal mediators halted newly resumed negotiations between Boeing and the machinists union Monday afternoon, after discussions on the issue of job security broke down.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
October 14, 2008
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