Archive for August, 2011
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Tim DeChristopher is a young man with great courage. He is a climate activist who while studying in Utah attended a gas lease auction for public lands. He bid $1.8 million on 14 parcels of land. He didn't have the money to pay of course. He did it as a ...
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
After reading this Labor Notes story about what it's like to work at Walmart. I'm glad I stopped shopping there.
How Walmart Trains Managers
By Adrian Campbell Montgomery
Created Aug 31 2011 - 3:07pm
The brave Walmart workers who belong to OUR Walmart [1] say fear is the main thing stopping their fellow ...
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Hey Verizon bosses, this fight ain't over it's only just begun. That wasn't the fat lady you heard singing it was Fatso Christie in drag. The fat slob governor and Verizon's effete elite exec Lowell McGreedy are neighbors who live in, that cesspool of ruling class vermin, Mendham, NJ.
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
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With the "great power" of their "superior" intellect and imaginations -- diluted, unfortunately, by blue blood inbreeding -- the Verizon bosses have reached into their billion dollar bag of tricks and come up with a brilliant plan -- divide and conquer. ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Here's a Labor Notes review of a new book Reviving the Strike by Joe Burns. Also watch interview with Thom Hartman from YouTube. Burns argues that we must go back to the traditional strike where labor shut down production even if that requires mass civil disobedience against unjust labor laws.
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Don't worry about hurricanes. Hedge funds buying up farmland all over the world are way more troublesome than the weather.  You remember hedge funds. They're some of the folks who brought us the "housing crisis." These titans of industry are betting that food shortages will mean big profits, and so ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Paterson, NJ is a town rich in working class history. In the early part of the 20th Century it was one of the most important textile centers in the US. The 1913 Paterson Strike pitted 20,000 silk mill workers against the owners of 300 mills. The strike was lead by ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
I have to agree with former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on this one.  This Labor Day we need to party less and protest more. With the real unemployment rate at 17% and attacks on workers growing like cornstalks in farm country, we need to stand firm and say, "We won't ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Here's another good article from Labor Notes.
Jenny Brown
|Â August 22, 2011
CWA Local 9510 rallied in southern California August 17 in support of the strike. Photo: Unity at Verizon.
After 15 days on strike, 45,000 Verizon workers will march into work on Tuesday after extracting an agreement from ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
I vote for this guy to be the new CEO -- at least he knows how the network works.
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