“You know longies here in L.A. or over there in Iraq are just working stiffs trying to do right by their families,” said Joe Kordich, retired longshore worker with Local 13 of the International Longshore Warehouse Union. “You can see it here in these pictures." 
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Sept. 9, 2006
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CHICAGO — Despite a monthlong million-dollar campaign to scare residents into opposing the “big box” living wage ordinance passed by the City Council July 26, a new poll of Chicago voters shows overwhelming support for the legislation.
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Several leading women’s organizations, including the Coalition of Labor Union Women, are vigorously protesting the latest scheme by GOP President George W. Bush and his Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to downsize and outsource much of her department’s Women’s Bureau
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GARY, Ind. — Meeting at the city’s largest high school on Sept. 1, 1,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 4 loudly and unanimously approved a new one-year contract that everyone agreed was a tremendous victory for the union
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For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.
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This week’s clips are a brief roundup of a few of the hundreds of Labor Day parades, marches and picnics around the country.
DALLAS: Labor breakfast, immigrant rights march
PITTSBURGH: Workers demand change in Washington
DETROIT: Flight attendants lead 50,000 marchers
LORAIN, Ohio: ‘The air was electric’
LOS ANGELES: ‘We’re building power’
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After a brutal police attack against a radio and television station, a tense standoff continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where striking teachers and popular organizations are demanding that right-wing Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz resign.
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Anyone who feels that getting protection from their employers is taking away their “rights” will be relieved to learn that the United States Department of Labor, George W. Bush in charge, is racing to the rescue.
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Is Andy Stern right that class struggle trade unionism is outdated and a leftover from the heyday of industrial unionism? Is he right that corporate globalization is inevitable and all that unions can do is go along to get along? I think not.
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Today the labor movement has joined with millions of immigrant workers and social justice advocates in a united struggle for labor and human rights.
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