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lia href =http://www.laborradio.org/node/10156Bush Gives U.S. Auto Industry $13.4 Billion In Loansa/a//li
lia href =http://www.laborradio.org/node/10147Labor Is Thrilled With Obama’s Labor Secretary Picka//li
lia href =http://www.laborradio.org/node/10148New Campaign For Jobs And Economic Recovery Is Launcheda//li
lia href =http://www.laborradio.org/node/10149Southern GOP Senators’ Attack On UAW Could Drive Foreign Auto Wages Lower In U.S.a//li
lia href =http://www.laborradio.org/node/10150The Lame Duck’s Latest Lame Attack On Labor As He Heads For The Doora//li
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pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pIn Bush’s waning days he’s trying to roll back existing rules that protect wages and working conditions of farm workers. The United Farm Workers union is trying to prevent the rollback. By removing key protections in the H-2A visa program, the UFW says Bush would dramatically weaken hard-earned minimum standards on wages and living conditions for migrant farm workers. The changes would let growers bring in unlimited numbers of so-called “guest workers” without proving that resident workers are unavailable. Wage standards for those “guest workers” would be eliminated. The union wants President-Elect Obama to commit to reversing bush’s last minute rules change. The UFW has an online petition opposed to the rollbacks at www.ufwaction.org/p
pBy Doug Çunningham/p
pThe attack on UAW wages and benefits orchestrated by southern Republican senators may be a precursor to an attack on the wages on auto workers employed at the foreign – owned auto plants operating in the southern U.S. It’s no secret that Toyota and other foreign makers want to cut their workers’ wages – an internal Toyota memo leaked to the Detroit Free Press said Toyota wants to cut wages by $300 by 2011. Toyota’s wages are actually higher now than the UAW’s. If the UAW can be destroyed, Toyota would have a freer hand cutting its workers wages. The UAW says it’s actually been getting more calls from workers at the foreign plants operating in the U.S. who are concerned that their wages will be attacked next./p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pMore than 20 leading unions and progressive organizations have launched the Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery. Labor is represented in this campaign by the AFL-CIO. AFSCME, SEIU and the NEA. The campaign will support President-elect Barack Obama’s economic recovery package. AFSCME says America needs fast-track infrastructure improvements wit ha public investment to create jobs and help the economy. AFSCME calls Obama’s program is dramatic, bold and innovative – and a sign that real change is coming soon to America./p
pBy Doug Cunningham/p
pThe AFL-CIO says it’s thrilled with the choice of Rep. Hilda Solis becoming U.S. Labor Secretary. The labor federation says she will return the labor department to one of its core missions – to defend workers’ basic rights in America’s workplaces. Imagine that – a Labor Secretary who will actually enforce labor law. AFL-CIO Policy Director Thea Lee./p
p[Lee]: “ We’re delighted with Hilda Solis as our next Secretary of Labor. She’s been a great friend to working families during all of her time in Congress. She’s great on protecting workers’ rights, she’s great on trade issues, she’s really interested in green jobs. So we’re really looking forward to working with her and to her being able, we hope, to really whip that department into shape. It’s been a sorry shadow of a department over the last eight years.”/p
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney today praised President-elect Obama’s reported plan to appoint Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) as secretary of labor. In a statement, Sweeney says:
We’re confident that she will return to the Labor Department one of its core missions—to defend workers’ basic rights in our nation’s workplaces.
She’s proven to be a passionate leader and advocate [...]
After Chrysler announced it is shutting down all of its North American plants starting tomorrow, elected officials, union leaders and other industry supporters urged the Bush administration to immediately provide assistance to the auto industry or risk an economic tsunami in the nation’s manufacturing sector.
Citing a 47 percent drop in sales last month, Chrysler said [...]
David R. Radtke
When you think of “Public Enemy No. 1,” you picture a Depression-era John Dillinger or maybe the UniBomber. But David R. Radtke says he has learned some shocking news—his dad, a retired UAW autoworker, might fit that bill.
Says Radtke:
“I have a confession. My father is an autoworker. I know that some people will [...]
Russian trade union leader Alexei Etmanov has been physically attacked twice for trying to build a democratic union of autoworkers.
Tim Ryan of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center reports on growing violence in Russia against labor activists seeking to create democratic unions.
Over the past several years, the government of Vladimir Putin has consistently and deliberately shut down one avenue [...]
Roger Toussaint, president of TWU Local 100.
Roger Toussaint, president of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 in New York City, was in Poznan, Poland, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which concluded Dec. 12. Toussaint, who was among 100 union delegates, offers his observations on the 12-day event held to build upon the framework [...]
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