Troublemakers Blog
February 27, 2013 / Jenny Brown
Lately you may have heard a co-worker, or even yourself, muttering “We need our own political party.” Former leaders of the Labor Party are encouraging a discussion of the idea.
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February 25, 2013 /
Auto workers staged a noisy protest against "awful work schedules" that will turn workers' home lives upside down and cheat them out of Saturday overtime pay. Organizer Alex Wassell was indefinitely suspended by Chrysler.
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February 22, 2013 / Jane Slaughter
Short summaries of Labor Notes articles, week of February 18, 2013.
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February 22, 2013 / Alexandra Bradbury
Connecticut nursing home workers who struck against severe takeaways last July are returning to work with a rare victory: a Labor Board injunction has forced their employer to restore their old jobs and contract terms.
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February 20, 2013 / Samantha Winslow
New York’s five-week school bus strike ended today with more than 8,000 union members returning to work—and an uncertain future.
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February 15, 2013 / Mark Brenner
Affiliation between the American Federation of Teachers and the National Federation of Nurses provides much-needed stability for the NFN—and raises questions about its ambitions.
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February 12, 2013 /
At the world's wealthiest university, "modernization" and "shared services" are code for layoffs and speedup.
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February 07, 2013 /
At New York’s Fashion Week, United Students Against Sweatshops is launching a coordinated campaign targeting Adidas.
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February 06, 2013 / Alexandra Bradbury
The Postmaster General startled workers today by announcing that letter delivery will drop to five days a week in August. Packages, but not letters, will still be delivered Saturdays.
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February 01, 2013 /
Shouldn’t TSA recruit skilled agents and pay them well—rather than hiring young high-school grads and submitting them to a battery of ambiguous tests?
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