![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | USLAW's Gene Bruskin at UNITE Hall Chicago 04 - Jerry Mead
Audio recording of speech by Gene Bruskin of US Labor Against War at UNITE Hall in Chicago, Summer of 2004.
Keywords: Iraq; war; labor; unions; USLAW; Bruskin; anti-war
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| Labor Express Radio for 10-16-05 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights
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| Labor Express Radio for 10-8-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights
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| Labor Express Radio for 4-15-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-15-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers) win their campaign against the McDonald’s corporation, when McDonald’s concedes to all the farm workers demands. I interview CIW member Gerardo Reyes about this victory. The program also includes live in-studio interviews with Jason Wallach who works with unions in El Salvador, and Benjamin Dangl, author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CIW; farm workers; McDonald’s; Immokalee; El Salvador; Central America; Bolivia; Venezuela; Jason Wallach; Benjamin Dangl; Gerardo Reyes
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| Alexis DeSimone at USSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Alexis De Simone with Casa of Maryland, one of the organizations involved in organizing domestic workers, talks about their work and the decision at the USSF to form a national coalition of domestic worker organizations. The national gathering of domestic workers organizations at the USSF was one of the highlights of the forum, and perhaps the most important labor movement development at the forum.
Keywords: labor; ussf; united states social forum; domestic workers united; worker; rights; labor express, domestic, casa of maryland
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| Labor Express Radio for 2-18-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-18-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode continued our coverage of the role of organized labor in this years elections for the Chicago city council. Features interviews with Dennis Gannon, President of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Cuahutémoc Morfin, AFSCME Council 31 member and candidate for alderman in the 25th ward. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; elections; CFL; Chicago Federation of Labor
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| Labor Express for 3-27-05 - Jerry Mead
This is the March 27th 2005 edition of Labor Express. In this episode: Interview with Gabe Gonzalez of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and Martin Manteca of SEIU on the current state of immigrant's rights. Part 1 of an interview with Katie Jordan of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) on the history of CLUW and the concerns of working women. And a special WIN feature on organizing by women in the global sex trade.
Keywords: labor; work; Chicago; union; movement; worker; rights; justice
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| Conn-Selmer Workers in Elhart - Larry Duncan & Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: Elkhart; union; indiana; UAW; Conn-Selmer; labor
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| Labor Express Radio for 1-14-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 1-14-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This is our MLK Day Eve program. It includes excerpts from Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the Riverside Church in New York City in 1967 and a commentary on King's connection to the labor movement by journalist Dick Meister. The bulk of the program features a speech by North Central College Speech Communications professor, Steve Macek called “Demonizing the Inner City: Ideology and the Urban Poor”...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; poor; mlk; martin luther king; inner city; poverty
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| AcuffUSSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Stewart Acuff, Organizing Director for the AFL-CIO, speaks at the Workers’ Rights in the Global Economy Plenary at the USSF. Always a powerful speaker, Acuff talks about a re-invigorated labor movement in terms rarely heard by officials of such high rank in the AFL-CIO. Acuff continues to be one of the best leaders in the organization. In particular, Acuff calls for the AFL to develop closer relationships with “non-traditional” forms of organizing workers...
Keywords: labor; ussf; united states social forum; afl-cio; worker; rights; labor express
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| Ai-Jen Poo of Domestic Workers United at USSF - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Ai-Jen Poo of Domestic Workers United (DWU) announces the creation of a national coalition of domestic worker’s organizations at the USSF. This is one of the most powerful labor speeches I have ever heard. Ai-Jen talks about the domestic workers movement as providing new spirit and direction to the entire working class movement. DWU and the other domestic worker organizations represent some of the best labor organizing going on today.
Keywords: labor; ussf; united states social forum; domestic workers united; worker; rights; labor express, domestic
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![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Ashim Chandra Interview
Jerry Mead, host of Labor Express radio in Chicago interviews Ashim Roy & Chandra, Indian Trade Unionists about the NTUI, The New Trade Union Initiative in India.
Keywords: unions; India; globalization
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| CasadePueblo2 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: Casa de Pueblo; labor; ufcw
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| Labor Express Radio for 11-21-05 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights
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| Labor Express Radio for 12-31-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor, chicago, justice, workers, unions, immigrant, elections
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| Labor Express Radio for 12-31-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-31-06 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Our New Years Eve, 2006 episode takes a look at the top labor news stories of the past year. This is part 1 of a end of the year news review. Part 2 airs 1-7-07. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday night at 7:00 PM on Chicago's indepedent community radio station, WLUW.
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; immigrant; elections; CIW; rights
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| Labor Express Radio for 1-7-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 1-7-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Our first program of 2007, the episode takes a look at the top labor news stories of 2006. This is part 2 of a end of the year news review. Part 1 aired 12-31-06. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Sunday night at 7:00 PM on Chicago's independent community radio station, WLUW.
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; immigrant; elections; CIW; rights; miners
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| Labor Express Radio for 2-11-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-11-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode focuses on the role of organized labor in Chicago's 2007 Aldermanic elections. Features interviews with Jerry Morrison, Executive Director of SEIU's Illinois State Council and Leroy Jones Jr., SEIU Local 73 City Division Director and candidate for alderman in the 21st Ward on Chicago's South Side. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; elections; Alderman; SEIU
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| Labor Express Radio for 3-4-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full March 4th, 2007 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This program covers the rally organized by AFSCME Council 31 and held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Downtown Chicago, on Saturday 3-3-07. The rally highlighted the ongoing efforts of AFSCME to organize workers in the Resurrection Health Care hospital chain and celebrated the U.S. House of Representatives passage of the Employee Free Choice Act...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; elections; AFSCME; Obama; Barack; sweeney; AFL-CIO; Resurrection; hospital; nurse; Employee Free Choice Act
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| Labor Express Radio for 4-22-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-22-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode features an interview with Ken Barger, Director of Communications for FLOC (Farm Labor Organizing Committee) about the murder of FLOC organizer Santiago Rafael Cruz in Monterrey Mexico. It also includes an episode of Tom Herriman’s Shift Break on American Federation of Musicians Local 1000. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; Chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; FLOC; farm workers; Tom Herriman; Shift Break; Mexico; immigrant; Santiago Rafael Cruz; Ken Barger; murder; assassination; local 1000; American Federation of Musicians
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| Labor Express Radio for 4-29-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-29-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we cover a controversial ICE (immigration) raid in the Mexican neighborhood of La Villita on Chicago South-West Side, in which agents invaded a busy strip mall with automatic rifles and detained over a hundred Latino shoppers. The episode also includes a speech given in Chicago by labor journalist and activist David Bacon about the relationship between free trade and immigration...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; immigration; immigrants; Mexican; INS; ICE; NAFTA; David Bacon; free trade
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| Labor Express Radio for 4-8-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 4-8-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we hear from Cruz Salucio of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about the McDonald’s campaign of the CIW in preparation for major actions against McDonald’s planned for April 13th & 14th in Chicago. We also have an episode of Tom Herriman’s Shift Break on the efforts to organize Starbucks workers. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs program...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CIW; farm workers
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| Labor Express Radio for 5-6-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-6-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Our post May Day 2007 episode, the bulk of the program involves interviews with participants in this year’s march and rally for immigrant workers rights in which hundreds of thousands participated. Also includes an interview with Chicago Teacher’s Union Activist Jackson Potter about a new documentary on Renaissance 2010, the plan by the Chicago Board of Education to privatize a large number of Chicago’s public schools...
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; workers; unions; rights; work; movement; CTU; teachers; Ren 2010; Renaissance; Jackson; Potter; May Day; Mayday; immigrant; Haymarket; James Thindwa; march; rally; may 1; public schools; UNITE-HERE; march 10th coalition; CONFEMEX; NALACC
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| Labor Express Radio for 8-6-06 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Keywords: labor; chicago; justice; worker; union; rights; community; immigrant; class; immigration; NALACC
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| Labor Express for 9-11-05 - Jerry Mead
On the 4th anniversary of 9-11 (and the 32nd anniversary of the coup in Chile) Labor Express includes an interview conducted by our friends at WIN with U.S. Labor Against The War national organizer Michael Eisencher about the anti-war protests that will be held in D.C. the weekend of Sept. 24th-25th. We also feature Bob Kingsley's organizing report at the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) convention held in Chicago in late August.
Keywords: Labor; UE; war; iraq; USLAW; Chicago; work; union
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| Labor Express for 9-4-05 - Jerry Mead
Our Labor Day 2005 episode features a half hour special produced by our friends at WIN looking back on events in the labor movement over the past year. (PLEASE EXCUSE MY REFERENCE TO AN INTERVIEW WITH HOWARD ZINN IN THIS PROGRAM--THE INTERVIEW IS ACTUALLY WITH ZINN'S CO-EDITOR ANTHONY ARNOVE). We also have a report on the struggle of Boilermakers Local 484 against Celanese Corp. in Meredosia Illinois where local police in the pay of the company terrorize union members...
Keywords: labor; Meredosia; Boilermakers; Katrina; solidarity; Chicago; work; union
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| Labor Express for 4-17-05 - Jerry Mead
Victory in SEIU Local 880's campaign to organize Illinois' child care workers. The dangers of CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade Agreement).
Keywords: labor; work; Chicago; union; movement; worker; rights; justice
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| Joycelyn Campbell of Domestic Workers United - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Joycelyn Campbell, a Nanny from Manhattan, an immigrant from Barbados, and a leader in the Domestic Workers United organization discuss the lack of legal protections for domestic workers in the United States and the roots of this reality in racism as well as U.S. economic and foreign policy.
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| Joe Moore on Republic Windows Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Chicago Alderman Joe Moore announces that 15 members of the Chicago City Council are seeking to pass a resolution calling for the City to divest from Bank of America if the bank refuses to extend credit to the owners of Republic Windows & Doors. Republic management claims that it can not pay their workers the severance they are due under law, because the bank has refused them further credit. The workers are currently occupying the factory in protest.
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| LE2-10-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 2-10-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. When UAW Local 3520 members at Freightliner, a truck manufacturer in Cleveland North Carolina, resisted company demands that they accept a concessionary contract, UAW International officials attacked their own members rather than support their efforts to combat concessions. The Freightliner 5 are Local 3520 leaders who have had to fight both the company and UAW officialdom in their effort to represent the membership of their lo...
Keywords: freightliner 5; cleveland 5; labor; unions; uaw; united auto workers; workers; concessions; north carolina; jerry mead-lucero; mead-lucero; labor express; Freightliner
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| StewartAcuff2-3 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Section 3 of Part 2 of Stewart Acuff Interview.
Keywords: Labor Express
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| JoeIsobaker&AdamWeisbergDebate - Jerry Mead-Lucero
JoeIsobaker&AdamWeisbergDebate
Keywords: SEIU; NNOC; CNA
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| LE10-7-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-7-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we talk with Stewart Acuff, National Organizing Director of the AFL-CIO, about the state of the AFL-CIO and of the labor movement in general, 2 years since the historic 50th Anniversary convention of the federation which resulted in the split that formed the competing Change To Win coalition of unions. This is part one of our two part interview with Acuff...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; AFL-CIO; Change to Win; Stewart Acuff; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero
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| Jerry Tucker on UAW Contracts 07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Jerry Tucker is a former director of Region 5 of the United Auto Workers union (UAW), former International Executive Board member, and was one of the leaders of the New Directions reform movement in the UAW. He is the co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. In this interview, Jerry Mead-Lucero of Labor Express Radio talks with Tucker about the 2007 contract negotiations between the UAW, GM, Chrysler & Ford...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; UAW; United Auto Workers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto; labor express; justice; strike; rights; jerry tucker; jerry mead-lucero; center for labor renewal; new directions
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| LE4-27-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Labor Express from 4-27-08
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| LE5-18-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 5-18-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. This episode focuses on the presentation at the 2008 Labor Notes Conference, by the New Orleans Worker’s Center for Racial Justice, featuring a number of the Indian migrant workers, employees of Signal International in Mississippi, who endured a form a form debt peonage to this major U.S. marine construction company. The situation of the Signal workers is one of the most powerful indictments of the H2B guest worker program ye...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; guest worker; immigrant; india; indian; Signal; Gulf Coast; New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice; Saket Soni; Labor Notes
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| LE12-9-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-9-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Part 2 of our focus on the Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters and the ICE Raid Rapid Response Network. In this episode, Tim Bell of the Chicago Workers Collaborative talks about the no-match crisis and efforts to make Chicago a no-match letter, ICE raid free zone. Also, Emmanuel Castro talks about his struggle against no-match firings at Utility Concrete Products in Morris IL., and the initial reluctance of his union, L...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; Chicago Committee Against No Match Letters; rapid response network; immigrant; ICE; Chicago Workers Collaborative; Emmanuel Castro; Tim Bell; Laborers Local 25
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| LE9-9-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 9-9-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interview with Tim Bell of The Chicago Worker’s Collaborative, about the proposed policies changes by the Dept. Homeland Security in-regards to the Social Security “no match letters”, which could result in massive firings of undocumented and documented immigrant workers. Socorro Leos of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA!), talks about the struggles of migrant workers on the Gulf Coast, post-Katrina.
Keywords: labor; labor express; union; worker; justice; rights; Mississippi; MIRA!; immigrant; Socorro Leos; Katrina; Pascagoula; no match; social security; Tim Bell; Homeland Security
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| Carl Rosen City Hall Republic Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Carl Rosen, President of the Western Region of the United Electrical Workers Union (UE) talks at Chicago City Hall press conference on the ongoing occupation of Republic Windows and Doors by it's workers. He announces that the union is seeking a means to keep the factory in operation under new management.
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| BaldemarVelasquezLaborNotes08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Baldemar Velasquez, president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), delivers a powerful speech at the 2008 Labor Notes conference.
Keywords: FLOC; farm workers; labor; union; immigrants
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| Final Press Conference Republic Factory Occupation - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Final Press Conference Republic Factory Occupation
Keywords: Republic Windows And Doors; occupy; occupation; factory; Chicago; labor; workers; rights; union; Labor Express; UE; United Electrical Workers
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| Labor Express For 10-19-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 10-19-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we take a look at the real ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The mainstream media has portrayed the organization as if it was created to carry out vote fraud on behalf of Democratic candidates. In reality, ACORN is the most successful community organizing network in U.S. history and has worked to empower poor and working class communities around the country...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago
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| AnitaChan-LaborNotes08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Leading scholar on workers in contemporary China, Anita Chan, discusses recent developments in the Chinese labor movement at 2008 Labor Notes conference.
Keywords: China; Labor; rights; unions
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| Labor Express For 11-30-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 11-30-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Curly Cohen of Affordable Power to the People talks about the 100,000 households in Illinois whose home heating has been cut off because they canât afford their utility bills. Alan Benjamin, Executive Committee member of the San Francisco Labor Council, who supported Cynthia McKinney in the recently past Presidential election, discuss the meaning of Barack Obamaâs victory for working people in the United States...
Keywords: UAW; autoworkers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto industry; utilities; home heating; Curly Cohen; Affordable Power; Barack Obama; Cynthia McKinney; Elections; workers; union; labor; Chicago; Illinois
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| SocorroLeos1 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Interview with Socorro Leos of MIRA!(Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance) about the struggles of workers in Pascagoula, MS. post-Katrina, and the conditions faced by guest workers in the shipyards of the Gulf Coast.
Keywords: immigrant; workers; labor; justice; katrina; Pascagoula; Mississippi; mira; labor express; gulf coast; jerry; mead-lucero; socorro; leos
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| Gregg Shotwell UAW Contracts 07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Greg Shotwell is a GM worker, a member of Local 1753 of the UAW, and a leader in the Soldiers of Solidarity (SOS) organization within the UAW. SOS seeks to end the concessionary cooperation with management that typifies the UAW leadership in recent years and to stem the decline of wages, working conditions and benefits for auto workers by pushing for a militant fight back strategy against the boss...
Keywords: labor; union; worker; UAW; United Auto Workers; GM; Ford; Chrysler; auto; labor express; justice; strike; rights; gregg shotwell; jerry mead-lucero; SOS; Soldiers of Solidarity
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| GreggShotwellUAWStrike - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Gregg Shotwell is an auto worker, a member of UAW Local 1753, and one of the founders of Soldiers of Solidarity, an activist group in the UAW which opposes the union leaderships lack of militancy and concessionary bargaining. We started our interview with Greg providing a little background on SOSâ¦
Keywords: Gregg Shotwell; UAW; GM; strike; Labor Express
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| Labor Express For 12-14-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
This is the full 12-14-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Republic Windows & Doors workers WIN! Only 6 days after under taking the first factory occupation in the United States since the late 1930’s, the workers at Republic Windows & Doors in Chicago defeat both Republic management and Bank of America, winning the severance package they were due under federal law. The action of the workers at Republic was international news within days of the worker’s decision to occupy the facto...
Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; chicago; Republic; Bank of America; bailout; occupation; direct action; Coalition of Immokalee Workers; CIW; Republic Windows and Doors
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| StewartAcuff2-2 - Jerry Mead-Lucero
Section 2 of Part 2 of Stewart Acuff Interview.
Keywords: Labor Express
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