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Activists protest postal service privatizationActivists protest postal service privatization

Activists protest postal service privatization

Members of Communities and Postal Workers United and Community- Labor United for Postal Jobs and Services attended the quadrennial AFL-CIO…

September 20, 2013
Protests save Brooklyn hospitalProtests save Brooklyn hospital

Protests save Brooklyn hospital

Brooklyn Judge Johnny Lee Baynes ruled Sept. 12 that New York state’s justification for the closing of Long Island College…

September 18, 2013
Fired GM workers in Colombia determined to winFired GM workers in Colombia determined to win

Fired GM workers in Colombia determined to win

For two years and two months a determined group of fired autoworkers have lived in tents outside the U.S. Embassy…

September 12, 2013

South African autoworkers strike key industry

Workers’ struggles continue in South Africa despite the successful resolution of strikes in the automotive and mining industries. Auto industry…

September 12, 2013

New York livery drivers protest, occupy Taxi Commission

Two hundred livery cab drivers, union members of the Coalition of Taxicabs of New York, demonstrated outside the headquarters of…

September 12, 2013

Detroit’s workers mobilize to defend pensions

Detroiters are mobilizing to defend city workers’ pensions and city services in the wake of the municipal bankruptcy filed by…

September 11, 2013

AFL-CIO Convention draws low-income workers

At a time of record poverty and massive government cutbacks, and under the threat of another war in the Middle…

September 9, 2013
Korean autoworkers wage courageous resistanceKorean autoworkers wage courageous resistance

Korean autoworkers wage courageous resistance

Since the global recession began in 2008, the world’s auto companies have been aggressively restructuring the process by which vehicles…

September 8, 2013

Unions must reach out to youth

The AFL-CIO Convention should put on its front burner how to win the loyalty of youth to organized labor. To…

September 8, 2013
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Activists honor post o

A delegation from Community-Labor United for Postal Jobs and Services attended the national convention of Postal Office Women for Equal…

September 8, 2013