Over forty-five members of CMAGE/CWA Local 4502 flooded the Columbus City Council Session last Monday night, October 19th 2009. The Union represents workers from all departments of the City of Columbus, including the Columbus Police and Fire Departments and Parks and Recreation, and includes professional and technical staff and supervisors.
Hi, we are Virna and Ernesto from Argentina. We are pleased to inform you that the DVD
of our new documentary Heart of the Factory, is now available. The purchase can be made
through the PayPal system, from all over the world. The film is about the workers of Zanon
Ceramic in Argentina. They take the factory in their own hands when the owner closes it.
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Adam Turl talks to barista and union organizer Erik Forman about the campaign to organize Starbucks.
April 17, 2009
WHEN BANK of America hosted a conference call to discuss how to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act, one executive used a new formulation: "the Starbucks problem."
Leftist Union Leaders Assassinated in Venezuela
On the afternoon of November 27, some 400 workers at the Alpina milk plant in the Venezuelan state of Aragua occupied their plant demanding full payment of money owed them by the Colombian-owned company.