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Mother’s Day Action: Resist the Raids, FAMILIES KNOW NO BORDERS |
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by Boston May Day Committee, info (nospam) bostonmayday.org |
Mother’s Day is a time for celebration for mother’s everywhere. Yet, for women in prison and immigration detention this is not the case. This is why we are taking a stance on Mother’s Day for all the women who are imprisoned and detained across the USA. Large scale women’s imprisonment has resulted in an increasing number of children who suffer from their mother’s incarceration and detention and the loss of family ties. Families should Know No Borders.
WHEN:
Sunday, May 10, 2009
1:30pm - Marchers gather in front of South Bay Corrections and Detention Center
2:00pm - Procession proceeds from South Bay entrance to 93 on-ramp.
WHERE:
Journey: Meeting at South Bay Corrections and Detention entrance 20 Bradston St, Boston 02118 |
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09 May 2009
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Filed under: Announcement / Labor |
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Unraveling the Card Check Debate |
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by Workers Action, |
Sometimes in politics a particular issue strikes at the core of deeper social-economic forces. Card Check - properly named The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)- is such an issue.
No other recent debate has spurred such passions on two opposite poles: the corporate elite versus labor. The cause of the uproar is the effect it would have on the relationship between these two classes: card check would vastly strengthen the working-class at the expense of the employers. |
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Mass union leaders call on Obama to support Medicare for All |
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by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
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More than forty Massachusetts labor leaders have signed onto a letter to President Obama raising concerns that some policy makers in Washington are backing health care reforms based on the state plan adopted two years ago. The Massachusetts plan features an "individual mandate" requiring all citizens to buy private health insurance. The letter sent today and spearheaded by the Jobs with Justice coalition, states: |
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18 Feb 2009
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Filed under: News / Labor : Politics : Social Welfare |
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Home Depot, Bank of America Executives Caught on Tape trying to Defeat the EFCA |
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by Employee Free Choice Act Now . Org, |
Bank of America, Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, Rick Berman founder of Union Facts exposed on tape trying to Defeat The Employee Free Choice Act. Audio of the conference call, which was obtained by the Huffington Post, is excerpted throughout this piece to provide a clearer insight into the pitched battle surrounding the Employee Free Choice legislation.
Participants on the October 17 call--including at least one representative from another bailout recipient, AIG--were urged to persuade their clients to send "large contributions" to groups working against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), as well as to vulnerable Senate Republicans, who could help block passage of the bill. Bernie Marcus, the charismatic co-founder of Home Depot, led the call along with Rick Berman, an aggressive EFCA opponent and founder of the Center for Union Facts. |
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30 Jan 2009
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Filed under: News / Labor |
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Alexander: Obama’s $825 Billion Stimulus Plan offers too little, too late |
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by Stewart A. Alexander, stewartalexander4paf (nospam) ca.rr.com |
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With less than 10 days in office, President Barack Obama has indicated that his $825 billion economic stimulus package will energize the U.S. economy and create future jobs for more than three million Americans. Socialists nationwide are rejecting this new call for deficit spending and are calling for programs that will meet the short and long term needs of the nation and create immediate employment for the millions of working people that are unemployed or under-employed. |
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30 Jan 2009
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Filed under: News / Labor |
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Hope and Change for Low-Wage Workers |
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by Rev. William Sinkford, bsinkford (nospam) uua.org |
 On March 18, 1968, two weeks before his murder, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis getting part-time income." He said, "A living wage should be the right of all working Americans."
What would Dr. King have thought of a $6.55 federal minimum wage in 2009, when the 1968 minimum wage is worth about $10 in today’s dollars? What would he have made of a minimum wage that is less adequate for the basic necessities of life than it was 40 years ago? |
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Workers Understand Democracy, Say Pass Employee Free Choice Act |
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by Employee Free Choice Act NOW!, |
 Almost eight in 10 Americans support legislation that would make it easier for workers to join or organize labor unions, according to a new national survey from Peter D. Hart and Associates released this week.
The opinion poll was designed to gather public views on the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill in Congress that would impose tough sanctions against employers who harass or fire workers who try to join unions, reduce federal red tape on certifying unions, and give workers the choice about whether they want to vote on their union by card check or by secret ballot. |
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10 Jan 2009
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Filed under: News / Labor |
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Hundreds in Mass kick off campaign for passage of Employee Free Choice Act |
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by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
 On International Human Rights Day hundreds of community and labor leaders gathered to make the link between workers' rights and human rights. The Massachusetts campaign for Employee Free Choice Act will tie broad economic recovery to passage of landmark labor legislation. |
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11 Dec 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Politics |
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