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If Detroit Fails, What about the pensions? | The Agonist

There is another side that must be addressed with some sort of legislative mandate because if the auto world of Detroit is allowed to fail and sink behind the veil of protection that bankruptcy provides, the potential for great human tragedy becomes increasingly real for large groups of vulnerable Americans unless laws protecting pensions are fully protected.

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Settlement at Journal de Québec < Settlements, Strikes and Lockouts, Quebec | CUPE

The longest strike or lockout at a french language newspaper in North America is over. Looks like the Québecor gets journalists to take video, photos, and photographers to write news. The journos get some staffing guarantees.

Writer Strike "Over"

Michael Eisner, former Disney honcho, announced on CNBC tonight the news the entertainment industry has been waiting to hear for months. "It's over," Eisner said of the writers' strike.

French Strikers Disrupt Rails for a Second Day

Strikers shut down French trains and buses, disrupted electricity production at nuclear plants and barricaded universities Wednesday, giving President Nicolas Sarkozy the toughest challenge yet to his ambitious plans for restructuring the country's huge social welfare programs.

BREAKING NEWS: Linda Chavez-Thompson Resigning - Working Life

The AFL-CIO's executive VP is stepping down for personal reasons.

Mine, steel workers back Edwards

Union backing should help push Edwards into the top tier with Hillary and Barack: John Edwards won the endorsement of the United Steelworkers and the United Mine Workers of America as more than 1,000 union members cheered the Democratic presidential candidate.

German corporate governance and the Siemens saga

The unusual way German boards are set up with directors that include union reps. It s contributed to the bigger problem with German corporate governance. Siemens is one example. Time for change.

Board Accuses Starbucks of Trying to Block Union

The National Labor Relations Board has accused Starbucks of breaking the law 30 times in fighting union activity at four of its coffee shops in Manhattan. Microsoft also was accused of union busting this week.

Microsoft Busting Unions: Windows into populism's rise

WashTech has tried to convert workers' anger into union drives. But those grinning, business-casual Microsoft executives have learned a thing or two about how to bust unions. One example: When a handful of Microsoft workers developing fledgling tax software took an initial step to unionize, the entire project was terminated by management.

China Drafts Law to Boost Unions and End Labor Abuse

China is planning to adopt a new law that seeks to crack down on sweatshops and protect workers rights by giving labor unions real power for the first time since it introduced market forces in the 1980 s. The move, which underscores the government s growing concern about the widening income gap and threats of social unrest, is setting off a battle with American and other foreign corporations that have lobbied against it by hinting that they may build fewer factories here. You have big corporations opposing basically modest reforms, said Tim Costello, an official of the group and a longtime labor union advocate. This flies in the face of the idea that globalization and corporations will raise standards around the world.

Borrowing Language of Civil Rights Movement, Drive Is On to Unionize Guards

SEUI is working to organize security guards in Los Angeles.

Bushworld: Labor Board Threatens Rights Of Millions Of Workers

As if American workers and American unions didn t have enough problems these days, hundreds of thousands or even millions of American workers may be on the verge of losing their right to organize a union, if the Bush administration has its way. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is set to rule on a series of cases collectively known as "Kentucky River," which will determine whether nurses can be considered "supervisors." Supervisors, traditionally considered to be employees who could hire, fire and discipline other employees, are not allowed to join unions, according to American labor law.As if American workers and American unions didn t have enough problems these days, hundreds of thousands or even millions of American workers may be on the verge of losing their right to organize a union, if the Bush administration has its way. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is set to rule on a series of cases collectively known as "Kentucky River," which will determine whether nurses can be considered "supervisors." Supervisors, traditionally considered to be employees who could hire, fire and discipline other employees, are not allowed to join unions, according to American labor law.

Two Tiers, Slipping Into One

This is an excellent article showing the decline in wages in the American job base. I was struck by the 40% net profit increase for Caterpillar last year - yet they choose not to expand their employee benefits/wages. There is something wrong in this country and this is a perfect example.

Another Alaska jet damaged on the ground at Sea-Tac

Another non-union laborer dents an Alaskan plane.