Labor Beat: Chicago Anti-JANUS Protest
Throughout the US union rallies protested the case now at the Supreme Court in JANUS vs AFSCME, which seeks to weaken the ability of unions to make free-riders pay for the [...]
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Behind the Winter Olympics
At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in South Korea, when the athletes of both North and South Korea paraded together under the flag of a reunited Korea, a wave of [...]
AZANIA / SOUTH AFRICA: The Butcher of Marikana Becomes President
(reprinted from the February-March 2018 issue of The Organizer newspaper) Presentation by Dominique Ferré The date was August 16, 2012. In Marikana, the Black platinum [...]
SF Labor Council Calls for a Clean Dream Act Now, No Compromises; Urges Labor Movement to Take Action!
[Resolution Adopted Unanimously by the Feb. 12, 2018, Delegates Assembly of the San Francisco Labor Council] For a Clean Dream Act Now and a Path to Citizenship for all [...]
Labor beat: Honduras Solidarity Teach-In
This Honduras Solidarity Teach-In on January 27, 2018 in Chicago was about the most recent election fraud in Honduras, backed up by the U.S. Government, and about the history [...]
Call to the Second Session of the Binational Conference of Workers and Youth in Mexico and United States:
STOP NAFTA! NOT TO THE WALL OF SHAME! (March 17-18, 2018 — Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico) Auditorium of the Democratic Union of Government Workers of the State of [...]
BRAZIL: 200,000 Workers and Youth Take to the Streets to Protest Lula Conviction
In the aftermath of the sentencing of Lula to 12 years in prison by a court held over from the military dictatorship BRAZIL: 200,000 Workers and Youth Take to the Streets On [...]
Labor Beat: A Tale of Two Protests – Trump, Year One
On Trump’s one year anniversary, two different protest marches took place in Chicago. One was the huge Women’s March, and the other the much smaller Answer Coalition [...]
A Haitian Activist Responds to Trump’s Provocation: Let’s Stand Up and Resist!
By Berthony Dupont * (reprinted from Issue No. 69 — Jan. 19, 2018 — of the IWC Newsletter) There are actions that cannot be labelled as incidents or accidents, but rather [...]
Labor Beat: School Closing Hearings – NTA vs Real Estate Values
A hearing on January 9, 2018 — organized by Chicago Public Schools — ‘debated’ the threatened closing of the National Teachers Academy grade school. The facility [...]
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