In the March 28, 2008 edition of The Chief newspaper, which is sold to a readership mainly made up of government employees, there was an article which confirms all our fears. While the wealthy have […]
Since February 26th, 3,600 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) have been on strike at American Axle & Manufacturing. As we go to press, contract negotiations are underway. The nearly three month strike has […]
On March 4, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reported that the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce had alerted its members that a strike could be looming this summer for the city's public transit workers, whose contract […]
Temporary employment agencies are often touted as a quick and easy way for low income and “unskilled” workers to find a job. This claim has some justification, as the hiring process for these temporary agencies […]
The Freightliner Five are part of an initial ten workers that were fired for walking off the job during a strike that was called off by the leadership of the UAW leadership.
Two years after the massive marches and the national boycott and strike of May Day 2006, the problems facing immigrant workers are far from being resolved. On the contrary, we have entered a new stage […]
In late January, more than 80 U.S. and Canadian auto workers met in Flint, MI to discuss the impact of the worst contract ever shoved down the throats of the membership. As a result, UAW […]
The old home of the U.S. machine tool industry, producing about 13 percent of national machine tool output and employing about 15,000 workers, Cincinnati today is blighted by “deindustrialization” and has evolved into a services […]
The teachers and other professionals at Pittsburgh Public Schools, who we reported on in issue 36 of Socialist Appeal, have attained a number of concrete gains in a new three-year contract with the school district. […]
The U.S. Department of Labor recently reported that 311,000 more workers joined unions in 2007. While in 2006, 12 percent of wage and salary workers belonged to unions, 12.1 percent are in unions as of […]
A new leaflet from the WIL. In this election year, working people will once again be asked to choose between two representatives of the bosses. But just as workers have learned that if we band […]
As if graveyard and shift workers needed a new reason to despise their jobs, which place their schedules in opposition to the waking world, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World […]
