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EU, IMF Impose Most Anti-Union Legislation In Europe on Greece

The move was demanded, along with other draconian measures, as a condition of the latest tranche of what is called Greece’s bailout.

2月 02nd, 2018

作者 Will Podmore

EU, IMF Impose Most Anti-Union Legislation In Europe on Greece

Under instructions from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Greek government pushed through the most anti-union legislation in Europe on Monday 15 January. The move was demanded, along with other draconian measures, as a condition of the latest tranche of what is called

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Yale Graduate Teachers Launch Hunger Strike Over Bid To Unionize

“Because we have waited for years for the Yale administration to come to the negotiating table.” The Yale administration has kept them waiting. “So we decided to wait without eating.”

6月 16th, 2017

作者 Roqayah Chamseddine

Yale Graduate Teachers Launch Hunger Strike Over Bid To Unionize

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Graduate teachers at Yale University decided to unionize on February 23, after a vote by secret ballot administered by the National Labor Relations Board. They are now being stonewalled by

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Labor Leaders Stump For Trump As White House Prepares Attack On Workers

Organized labor has been under attack in the US for at least forty years, and the ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidency signals a new and dangerous period not just for trade unions, but for the entire working class.

1月 31st, 2017

作者 Eric Draitser Eric Draitser @stopimperialism

Labor Leaders Stump For Trump As White House Prepares Attack On Workers

NEW YORK --- (Analysis) The sight of leaders of a number of major trade unions praising President Donald Trump after their meeting with him on Jan. 23 is perhaps the perfect illustration of everything wrong with the labor movement. More

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Eric Draitser

Eric Draitser is a political analyst and host of CounterPunch Radio. You can follow and support his work at CounterPunch and patreon.com/ericdraitser.

Massive Corporations From Chiquita To Coca-Cola Used Personal Armies To Uproot, Terrorize Colombians

‘Chiquita admitted to paying paramilitaries and giving them 3,000 Kalashnikov rifles between 1997 and 2004,’ Dan Kovalik, a human rights lawyer, notes in an interview with MintPress News.

12月 06th, 2016

作者 Kit O'Connell Kit O'Connell @KitOConnell

Massive Corporations From Chiquita To Coca-Cola Used Personal Armies To Uproot, Terrorize Colombians

AUSTIN, Texas --- On Thursday, Colombia’s Congress ratified a new peace accord that could end decades of civil war and weaken the ability of foreign corporations to turn a profit on unrest in the South American country. Since the 1960s, communist rebel forces have fought right-wing paramilitary groups and their government allies in Colombia’s

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Kit O'Connell

A gonzo journalist from Austin, Texas and Staff Writer for MintPress News, Kit O'Connell's writing has also appeared at Truthout, the Texas Observer, and The Establishment.

Clinton Campaign Planned To Vilify Nurses For Backing Sanders

“The Clinton team’s attack on nurses as ‘fringe’ and not a ‘real union’ is deplorable, but hardly a shock.”

10月 29th, 2016

作者 Kevin Gosztola

Clinton Campaign Planned To Vilify Nurses For Backing Sanders

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Robby Mook, the manager for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, urged staff to attack National Nurses United (NNU) as “fringe” and suggested they were “not a ‘real’ union,” according to emails published by WikiLeaks. NNU gave Bernie Sanders one of his biggest union endorsements. The nurses union

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Kevin Gosztola

Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure."

Hundreds Of Union Plumbers Volunteer To Help Victims Of Flint’s Lead-Poisoning Crisis

More than 400 licensed plumbers have volunteered to visit about 800 homes in Flint to help residents mitigate the city’s ongoing lead-poisoning crisis.

2月 02nd, 2016

作者 Alexander Reed Kelly | Truth Dig

Hundreds Of Union Plumbers Volunteer To Help Victims Of Flint’s Lead-Poisoning Crisis

More than 400 licensed plumbers, many of them union-affiliated, from across Michigan and other states volunteered to visit about 800 homes in the city of Flint to make sure residents’ faucets can

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克里斯·赫奇斯：美国的新阶级战争

有组织的工人，经常无视他们胆怯的工会领导，正在美国各地游行。

EU, IMF Impose Most Anti-Union Legislation In Europe on Greece

Yale Graduate Teachers Launch Hunger Strike Over Bid To Unionize