Postal Service to Cut Trucker Jobs on Flimsy Environmental Pretext
The Postal Service is using environmental regulation as a fig leaf for its latest privatization ploy.
Postal workers, politicians, and community activists staged a Halloween rally yesterday outside Representative Darrell Issa’s office in Vista, California, calling for Congress to “carve the pumpkin, not the postal eagle.”
Paper Workers Picket Obama Over Secretive Trade Negotiations
As a Democrat running for re-election, President Barack Obama might assume he has organized labor in his pocket, but one West Coast union staged a public protest when the president made a campaign stop in Portland, Oregon.
Review: Pulling Clues From the Wreckage of PATCO
The meteoric rise and fall of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization (PATCO) would be a fascinating case study for anyone interested in organizing strategy, even if the union’s spectacular destruction had not become a significant and devastating event for the U.S. labor movement.