Wash Post: Unions aiming for future by enlisting young workers
Too male, too pale, too stale: That's a criticism frequently levied at the labor movement... But labor's chief problem...involves young people.Read more.
Founder of Oregon Company Leaves Business to Workers
Scores of employees gathered to help Bob Moore celebrate his 81st birthday...Moore...responded with a gift of his own -- the whole company. The Employee Stock Ownership Plan Moore unveiled means that his 209 employees now own the place and its 400 offerings of stone-ground flours, cereals and bread mixes. Read more here: http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/02/bobs_red_mil...
Beer Wars: Belgian Workers Take on Brewing Giant InBev
For two weeks in January Belgian brewery workers blocked roads, set fire to beer crates, kidnapped managers and handed out free beer as part of their tactics against job cuts proposed by Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer.Read more.
The Arrival of the "CEO-Hero" ?
Who are the real heroes of the American workplace? A new reality show called "undercover boss" argues that its CEOs. Read more about it here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-ae.zontv07feb07,0,6004171....
From Seattle to Detroit: 10 Lessons for Movement Building
For five days in 1999, 80,000 people from Seattle and from all over the country stopped the World Trade Organization from meeting. Despite extreme police and state violence, students, organizers, workers, and community members participated in a public uprising using direct actions, marches, rallies, and mass convergences.Read more.
Chicago Sun Times: College Student Scheduled for Deportation Gets 1 More Year
In recent weeks, a campaign to support Rigo Padilla, a college student in Chicago facing deportation, has gathered steam. The campaign generated 1,159 faculty petitions and over 18,000 individual petitions to DHS Director Janet Napolitano, ICE Director John Morton, Sen. Richard Durbin and Sen. Roland Burris.Read more.
NYTimes: 8 Arrested in Protest Against Cutbacks at University of California
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Eight people were arrested Saturday after protesters broke windows, lights and planters outside the home of the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.Read more.
BBC: Civil Service strike closes Louvre and other French museums
A strike by French museum workers has shut the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles - two of the most popular attractions for visitors to Paris. The protest is over French government plans to trim the civil service by replacing only one in two retiring staff.Read more.
NY Times: Revisiting a Purge of Teachers
A lawsuit seeks to reopen documents on 1,150 New York City teachers who were investigated during the anti-Communist fervor of the 1950s. More than 370 were ousted from their jobs.Read more.
University of Illinois Graduate Students Strike, Win
The Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO), IFT/AFT Local 6300, AFL-CIO, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) successfully ended a two-day strike after nearly seven months of negotiations during which the administration refused to sufficiently guarantee tuition waivers.Read more.
