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	Buffalo Live Music Podcast #2 - Doc Wu Buffalo Live Music Podcast #2 - UAW Quality of Life Rally, November 30, 2005 in Lockport NY Keywords: UAW; labor; union; rally Downloads: 5
	Weekly Radio Spin -- Fly Coach? Surely You Jest - Center for Media and Democracy This week, we look at CEO gas hogs, unlikely terrorists and how Mormons spend their money. In "Six Degrees of Spin and Fakin'," we look at General Motors. Keywords: GM; UAW; science; coal Downloads: 4
	Building Bridges Radio: The Case of the Freightliner 5 - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:09 ************************* The Case of the Freightliner 5, Local 3520, UAW with Robert Whiteside, Bargaining Chair & Shop Chair and Allen Bradley, Skills Trade Chair & Vice Chair of the Bargaining Committee The Freightliner 5 are fired UAW Local 3520 members in Cleveland, North Carolina. Theirs is an issue of multi-racial union organizing in a right to work state and it's also a strugg... Keywords: United Auto Workers; UAW Downloads: 87
	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 Downloads: 53
	Can't Make It Here Anymore - unknown Video collage from a UAW Brake plant set to James McMurtrys' music Keywords: UAW; labor; outsourceing; jobs; free trade Downloads: 106 Average rating: (0 review)
	beyondthepale03232008A Curate note: Radio show. Keywords: beyond the pale, wbai, tenement museum, union organizing,uaw Downloads: 35 Average rating: (0 review)
	Building Bridges Radio:Toyota's Labor Abuses; Atlantic City Casino Workers Rally - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 29 minutes ******************************************** "The Toyota You Don't Know" with Charles Kernaghan , National Labor Committee Toyota, may be known for environmentally friendly cars, but that "sensitivity" hardy extends to its treatment of its workers in Japan, U.S., Burma and the Philippines... Keywords: Atlantic City; Casino dealers; Toyota; United Auto Workers; UAW Downloads: 53
	Conn-Selmer Workers in Elhart - Larry Duncan & Jerry Mead-Lucero Keywords: Elkhart; union; indiana; UAW; Conn-Selmer; labor Downloads: 355 Average rating: (0 review)
	GEO UAW labor march at UMass Amherst Labor union march by Graduate Employee Organization UAW at UMass Amherst. Graduate employees bring their proposals to management to counter regressive takebacks from UMass proposals. See also: http://geouaw.org Keywords: labor; union; uaw; geo; umass; amherst; march; protest; contract Downloads: 226 Average rating: (1 review)
	RonGettelfingerUAWStrikePressConference - Original: UAW / Edited: Jerry Mead-Lucero Ron Gettelfinger, President of the United Auto Workers union (UAW), discusses at a press conference on Monday, Sept. 24th, 2007, why they choose to go on strike against GM. Orginal source of the audio is the UAW website... www.uaw.org Keywords: UAW; strike; auto; workers; GM; Ron Gettelfinger; labor express Downloads: 81
	UMass RAs Rally in Boston Pick it up.. Full length version of video is at http://www.archive.org/details-db.php?mediatype=movies&identifier=RARallyBoston This is a video of UMass RA's at a rally for union recognition with UAW 2322. The resident assistants and a hundred or so supporters marched on 1 Beacon Street, President Bulger's office. UMass Resident Assistants became the first undergraduate employees of any university in the US to organize a union... Keywords: uaw; resident assistants; umass amherst; bulger; boston; union; uaw local 2322; labor; nlrb; union recognition; umass arrests Downloads: 5,479 Average rating: (0 review)
	Building Bridges Radio:Casino Workers Rally;Toyota's Labor Abuses; Oil Prices - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, June 23, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 59 minutes **************************************** "The Toyota You Don't Know" with Charlie Charles Kernaghan and Barbara Briggs, National Labor Committee Toyota, may be known for environmentally friendly cars, but that "sensitivity" hardy extends to its treatment of its workers in Japan, U.S... Keywords: oil prices; peak oil; Toyota; auto workers; UAW; Atlantic City Casinos Downloads: 14
	UMass grad union rally 15 Nov 2005 UMass grad union teachers and researchers rally to fund their contract with the university. More info at http://geouaw.org Keywords: UMass Amherst, geo uaw 2322, union rally, mitt romney, fund the contract Downloads: 2,622 Average rating: (0 review)
	Interview with Tim Kaminski - Socialist Appeal Socialistappeal.org interviews Tim Kaminski, committeeman for UAW Local 110 representing the south plant in Fenton, MO, on the current situation in the auto industry, the Soldiers of Solidarity, work-to-rule, and the international situation. The ideas expressed in this interview do not necessarily reflect those of socialistappeal.org Keywords: socialism marxism socialist appeal workers international league uaw soldiers of solidarity workers labor sos strike Downloads: 141 Average rating: (0 review)
	LE3-30-08 - Jerry Mead-Lucero This is the full 3-30-08 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode we focus on the ongoing strike at American Axel. Program features an interview with John Sassman, member of UAW Local 2093, which represents workers at the American Axle plant in Three Rivers Michigan, and an interview with Erv Heidbrink, President of Local 2093. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only labor news and current affairs program... Keywords: labor; justice; rights; worker; union; American Axle, UAW, Local 2093, Michigan Downloads: 54
	Mother Jones Radio 05-07-03: The Future of Labor - Mother Jones Radio This long Fourth of July weekend, we give thanks to the labor movement for bringing us weekends and holidays. But have today's unions lost all their power? Angie Coiro talks to journalist JoAnn Wypijewski, who writes about the labor movement's current crisis in the July/August issue of Mother Jones. Former UAW executive board member Jerry Tucker tells us why a much-ballyhooed shakeup at the AFL-CIO might just be "rearranging deck chairs on a ship that may or may not be sinking." International Lo... Keywords: Mother Jones; Radio; Interview; labor movement; unions; AFL-CIO; UAW; Longshoremen; workaholic Downloads: 2,642
	Walmart Protest 500+ Workers, students, community and anti-sweatshop activists, Jobs with Justice, SEIU, Teamsters, UAW, and many others converge on the Hadley, MA WalMart for a day of protest against globalization and WalMart in solidarity with the protests in Prague, 9/26/00. Note: ...25 seconds of black at the beginning... Protest features a sweatshop fashion show, with filmmaker and USAS activist Michael Burns on the mic, Karl X reads a Robert Burns poem, Tom Taafe on the dismantling of affirmative action i... Keywords: walmart, labor, protest, union; teamsters, uaw, usas, jobs with justice; hadley, massachusetts, umass, amherst, students, workers Downloads: 828 Average rating: (1 review)
	Building Bridges: Chicago Sit In Workers; Scapegoating Public Workers; Black Autoworkers - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, January 26, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 58:27 **************************************** Black Workers And The UAW In Detroit with David Lewis-Colman, author Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers And The UAW In Detroit Too many blame the gain of autoworkers as responsible for the plight of the auto industry... Keywords: Republic Windows; Sit-In; Sit In; UAW; autoworkers; black auto workers; Walter Reuther; David Lewis-Colman; Race Against Liberalism; James Parrott; Fiscal Policy Institute; Citizens Budget Commission; UAW Downloads: 10
	LE10-28-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero This is the full 10-28-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Interviews with Chrysler workers at the Belvidere, IL. assembly plant as the voted on a new contract. Live in studio appearance of Richard Berg, President elect of Teamsters Local 743. After years of fighting the corrupt old guard, the reformers swept the recent 743 elections. Keywords: labor; union; worker; rights; justice; organizing; Labor Express; Jerry Mead-Lucero; Teamsters; Local 743; UAW; Chrysler Downloads: 12
	Servicenet Protest Servicenet employs 200 mental health care workers and counselors in Western Massachusetts, who organized with UAW Local 2322 and in this video workers take to the streets and picket their employer's offices on King Street in Northampton during stalled contract negotiations and facing regressive management proposals. More info at uaw2322.org Keywords: servicenet inc., northampton, mental health care provider; labor union, uaw local 2322, western massachusetts; protest, picket, rally Downloads: 125 Average rating: (0 review)
	Barbara Ehrenreich speaks at UMass Amherst WALKOUT 4-21-05 Barbara Ehrenreich speaks to students during walkout at UMass Amherst. Jed Murr introduces her. More info at http://www.geouaw.org http://www.takebackumass.org Keywords: barbara ehrenreich; umass amherst; union labor; uaw local 2322; university of massachusetts; protest; march; rally; affordable childcare Downloads: 697 Average rating: (0 review)
	Building Bridges: Auto Bailout?; Agriprocessors' Exploitation from Iowa to NYC - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, November 24, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM 57:59 **************************************** Washington to Detroit - Drop Dead? with Frank Hammer, Former Pres., UAW Local 909, Warren, Michigan and Warren Brown, Auto Columnist, "Washington Post " When auto executives and unions leaders came to Washington last week to ask for a $25 billion bailout, they expected a cold shoulder from... Keywords: auto industry; auto bailout; economic crisis; Warren Brown; Mike Hammer; UAW; Agriprocessors; UFCW; Paul Ouderkirk; Postville; St. Bridget's Church; Rubaskin Downloads: 15
	History Exhibit - American Ford Auto Worker - S.O.S. While Ford feels it no longer has use for American auto workers as auto workers, it can and will cash in on them as history museum attraction. Keywords: ford; uaw; general motors; chrysler; soldiers of solidarity; sos; mulally; allen; contract; two-tier; union; labor Downloads: 166
	Quebec City protests April 2001 Video from the April, 2001 protests against the FTAA in Quebec City, Canada. Tear gas and riot cops, anarchists tear down the fence. Includes footage of catapult used by Jaggi Singh to assault capitalism. 52 minutes Keywords: quebec; quebec city; canada; protest; march; bush; labor; unions; cupe; uaw; ftaa; anarchist; catapult, visa, shell, capitalism Downloads: 1,477 Average rating: (1 review)
	Save UMass Protest 3-7-02 Video of Save UMass protest against budget cuts to higher education. One of the biggest rallies in recent UMass history...students delivered thousands of letters protesting the budget cuts. Keywords: umass amherst, university of massachusetts; save umass, geo uaw local 2322; labor union, student, march, protest, henry geddes Downloads: 90 Average rating: (0 review)
	UAW pickets Stamford Marriot UAW teachers picket school event at Stamford Marriot hotel during fight for a fair contract, against regressive management proposals. Keywords: uaw, united auto workers, region 9a, julie kushner; labor, union, stamford, connecticut, public school teachers; protest, picket, rally Downloads: 261 Average rating: (0 review)
	UMass RA's rally and march for union recognition Video of UMass Amherst Resident Assistants at a May 6, 2002 rally and march for union recognition with UAW 2322. The resident assistants and hundreds of supporters marched across campus. Speakers included labor sociologist Dan Clawson, several RA's, local labor leaders. The RA's fought an anti-union administration for a year and a half, voted overwhelmingly in an NLRB election for union representation with UAW Local 2322, and still UMass refused to recognize the union or negotiate with the Resid... Keywords: umass amherst, president bulger, chancellor marcellette williams; labor union, uaw 2322, protest march, worker's rights, union recognition Downloads: 590 Average rating: (0 review)
	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 Downloads: 13
	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 Downloads: 77
	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 Downloads: 12
	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 Downloads: 149
	UMass GEO pickets Whitmore 4-11-01 UMass Amherst Graduate Employee Organization UAW Local 2322 pickets Whitmore Administration Building during fight for a fair contract. Keywords: umass amherst, university of massachusetts; graduate employee organization, uaw local 2322, afl-cio; protest, picket, march, blocking traffic, direct action gets the goods Downloads: 896 Average rating: (0 review)
	2007 UAW Bargaining Convention Uncensored (Part 7) - S.O.S. Gregg Shotwell sums up the 2007 UAW Bargaining Convention, relives his encounter with President Gettelfinger and urges the UAW leadership and membership to take a tougher stance against Two Tier and concessions of any kind. http://www.SoldiersOfSolidarity.com http://www.FactoryRat.com http://www.LaborNotes.org http://www.CenterForLaborRenewal.org Keywords: uaw; solidarity; sos; detroit; labor; strike; union; workers' rights; economic justice; healthcare; automotive; industry; delphi; chrysler; ford; gm; general motors; toyota; pension; concessions; organize Downloads: 184
	Labor Express For 5-31-09 - Jerry Mead-Lucero This is the full 5-31-09 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Is the U.S. government helping bust the United Auto Workers Union (UAW)? What responsibility does the UAW have for the dire straits auto workers now find themselves in? What is the future for the U.S. auto industry and the UAW? All of this and more is discussed with Gregg Shotwell, retired GM/Delphi worker and founder of the Soldiers of Solidarity, a network of auto worker activist who have sought to fight the UAW’s concessio... 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 Downloads: 10
	2007 UAW Bargaining Convention Uncensored (Part 5) - S.O.S. Paul Baxter, General Baker Jr., Donald 'Abdul' Roberts & Claire McClinton voice their desire to take collective action on corporate terrorism, universal healthcare, deteriorating communities and the future of the UAW. http://www.SoldiersOfSolidarity.com http://www.FactoryRat.com http://www.LaborNotes.org http://www.CenterForLaborRenewal.org Keywords: uaw; solidarity; sos; detroit; labor; strike; union; workers' rights; economic justice; healthcare; automotive; industry; delphi; chrysler; ford; gm; general motors; toyota; pension; concessions; organize Downloads: 224
	2007 UAW Bargaining Convention Uncensored (Part 2) - S.O.S. Justin West, Mike Parker, Gregg Shotwell, Dan Hagen and others on concessions, Two Tier, Healthcare, Chrysler and more. http://www.SoldiersOfSolidarity.com http://www.FactoryRat.com http://www.LaborNotes.org http://www.CenterForLaborRenewal.org Keywords: uaw; solidarity; sos; detroit; labor; strike; union; workers' rights; economic justice; healthcare; automotive; industry; delphi; chrysler; ford; gm; general motors; toyota; pension; concessions; organize Downloads: 236
	2007 UAW Bargaining Convention Uncensored (Part 3) - S.O.S. Wendy Thompson, George Albro, Don Decker, Jerry Harrington, Niels Chapman and Gary Walkowicz stand up to take on weak resolution language, non-union workers in plants, bankruptcy court union-busting, Two Tier, the need for a real shop-floor strategy, the need for continuous organizing, and the need for a firm No Concessions mobilization of the membership. http://www.SoldiersOfSolidarity.com http://www.FactoryRat.com http://www.LaborNotes.org http://www.CenterForLaborRenewal.org Keywords: uaw; solidarity; sos; detroit; labor; strike; union; workers' rights; economic justice; healthcare; automotive; industry; delphi; chrysler; ford; gm; general motors; toyota; pension; concessions; organize Downloads: 149
	2007 UAW Bargaining Convention Uncensored (Part 4) - S.O.S. Gregg Shotwell interviews members of the UAW's National Negotiation Committee: Fred Adams (GM), Daneen Wilson (Ford) and Jerry Washington (Ford). http://www.SoldiersOfSolidarity.com http://www.FactoryRat.com http://www.LaborNotes.org http://www.CenterForLaborRenewal.org Keywords: uaw; solidarity; sos; detroit; labor; strike; union; workers' rights; economic justice; healthcare; automotive; industry; delphi; chrysler; ford; gm; general motors; toyota; pension; concessions; organize Downloads: 818
	2007 UAW Bargaining Convention Uncensored (Part 1 - Parker) - S.O.S. After the National Anthems and a political speech, the 2007 UAW Bargaining Convention Rules Committee presented the rules for the Convention. Like the rest of those gathered inside Cobo Hall, we assumed ratification of The Rules would be a formality, so we changed videotapes . . . just as Mike Parker rose with a point of order to make. Parker proposed the following amendment to the rules for the 2007 Bargaining Convention: “The agenda for the Wednesday morning session will be Organizing to Fig... Keywords: uaw; solidarity; sos; detroit; labor; strike; union; workers' rights; economic justice; healthcare; automotive; industry; delphi; chrysler; ford; gm; general motors; toyota; pension; concessions; organize Downloads: 243
	UMass grad employees stage sit-in at UMass President Bulger's office on Beacon Street Boston 7-11-2001 UMass Continuing Education instructors denied union recognition by UMass: supporters stage sit-in at UMass President Bulger's office at 1 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Continuing Ed instuctors went on to win a collective bargaining agreement with UMass Amherst. UMass by JOHN BUTELL AMHERST, Mass.--Some 75 University of Massachusetts-Amherst graduate students picketed the schools Division of Continuing Education July 18 to protest administrators refusal to recognize their union... Keywords: umass amherst resident assistants president bulger; uaw local 2322 labor union protest sit in sit-in direct action gets the goods Downloads: 241 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	UMass Childcare Rally 2002 UMass student-parents rally for affordable childcare at UMass Amherst, Fine Arts Center, spring 2002. More info at www.geouaw.org Keywords: umass amherst; university of massachusetts; childcare; union; labor; geo uaw local 2322; affordable childcare; low-income students; parents; children; class war Downloads: 247 Average rating: (0 review)
	UMass GEO Diaper Rally and March UMass Amherst Drives Out Working People & Families with its Anti-Union Tactics Fri, 03/25/2005 - 4 years later - same story: The Graduate Employee Organization/UAW Local 2322, has represented workers who teach and do research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for 15 years. GEO/UAW has been negotiating for over a year with the University over the terms of a new contract. UMass insists that its top priorities in these negotiations are raising health insurance fees and childcare fees, whil... Keywords: university of massachusetts, umass Amherst, labor union; uaw local 2322, graduate employee organization; protest, march, rally, save affordable childcare, sue pearson Downloads: 14,107 Average rating: (0 review)
	LE10-14-07 - Jerry Mead-Lucero This is the full 10-14-07 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode Gregg Shotwell - GM worker, member of Local 1753 of the UAW, and a leader in the Soldiers of Solidarity (SOS)- and Jerry Tucker - former director of Region 5 of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) and co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, critique the new contracts between the UAW, and the big three U.S. auto companies... 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; SOS; Soldiers of Solidarity; gregg shotwell Downloads: 11
	Actions to Influence Outcome of GM/UAW Bargaining - 1983 Outlines General Motor's (GM's) goals and strategies for future contract negotiations with United Auto Workers Union (UAW). Keywords: Warren Letter; General Motors; GM; United Auto Workers; union; UAW; labor; strike; corporate; workforce; economic justice; economic disparity; free trade; fair trade; outsourcing; contract negotiations; bargaining; workers rights; NAFTA Downloads: 14
	2007 UAW Bargaining Convention Uncensored (Part 6) - S.O.S. Ron Zeneke of UAW Local 364 in Elkhart, IN discusses the ongoing strike at instrument maker Conn-Selmer, and the need for more public awareness and action from the union. http://www.connselmerstrike.com Keywords: uaw; solidarity; sos; detroit; labor; strike; union; workers' rights; economic justice; healthcare; automotive; industry; delphi; chrysler; ford; gm; general motors; toyota; pension; concessions; organize; conn-selmer; boycott; steinway Downloads: 138 Average rating: (1 review)
	Chef Solutions workers speak out... This video is a series of interviews with former and current Chef Solutions employees, talking about their experiences working for the company and the aftermath of the failed union organizing drive. Some interviews are in Spanish. Chef Solutions is an industrial bakery in North Haven, CT. Owned by Lufthansa, producing bread and cookie dough for Subway Sandwiches and Mrs. Fields' Cookies, employing about 200 workers... Keywords: Chef Solutions, Lufthansa, Subway Sandwiches, Mrs. Fields' Cookies, Boston Market; UAW, workers' rights, human rights, union labor, right to organize; latina, african american, exploitation, rape, harrassment, anti-union, union-busting Downloads: 1,947 Average rating: (0 review)
	Everybody's Valentine: UAW President Ron Gettelfinger Just two days after General Motors announced its plan to buy off its entire U.S. hourly workforce, some 73,000 UAW members, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger attended the Crain's Detroit Business 'Newsmaker of the Year' luncheon. Gettelfinger earned this year's honor by negotiating a new labor contract that includes such newsworthy concessions as placing the union in charge of retiree Health Care and giving the Big Three permission to replace workers lost through retirement, termination or buy off ... Keywords: uaw; general motors; ford; chrysler; two tier; crain's; detroit; business; union; automotive; newsreel; strike; labor; concessions; health care; pension; buy out; newsmaker of the year; award; valentines day; workers' rights; Gettelfinger; VEBA Downloads: 98 Average rating: (1 review)
	UMass students and workers march... UMass Amherst- Protest March - 3-31-05 Hundreds of students and grad student employees march and block traffic before delivering more than 350 letters demanding a fair contract for the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), UAW Local 2322 AFL-CIO. GEO represents 2400 grad employees who teach and do research at UMass and has been negotiating with the University for over one year for a new contract. UMass is seeking major concessions in the areas of healthcare and childcare and is offering low rais... Keywords: UMass Amherst, Graduate Employee Organization, ALANA, Chuck Dimare, Mike Gargano, John Lombardi; UAW Local 2322, SEIU 888, labor union, protest march, direct action gets the goods; patrick higgins, racism, kkk, diversity, affirmative action, building occupation, risking arrest Downloads: 379 Average rating: (1 review)
	Riot-Folk at UMass Amherst Student Walkout Riot-Folk sing at UMass Amherst student walkout, 4-21-05 Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman "Hard-hitting and earthy radical folk from Maine/Oregon" http://www.riotfolk.org/ http://www.evangreer.com/x/ethanandkate/ethan.html Info on the walkout: http://www.geouaw.org http://www.takebackumass.com Keywords: riot, folk, riot folk, riot-folk, protest music, university of massachusetts amherst; union labor, uaw local 2322, folk music, big business is organized crime; strike, boycott, walkout, direct action gets the goods Downloads: 1,375 Average rating: (0 review)
	UMass arrests 35 in RA sitin for union recognition April 29, 2002 - More than a dozen student activists occupy UMass Amherst Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Javier Cevallos' office, echoing the successful living-wage sit-in at Harvard. Unlike the 3 week occupation at Harvard, UMass felt no compulsion to negotiate and removed the activists hog-tied with plastic handcuffs within about three hours, and down the stairs on stretchers. UMass police have purchased a former INS bus for just such festive occasions... Keywords: umass amherst, bulger, marcelette williams, antiunion, unionbusting, seyfarth shaw, ambash, bottomfeeders; union labor, uaw local 2322, resident assistants, dorms, university of massachusetts; union recognition, labor activists, direct action gets the goods Downloads: 3,342 Average rating: (0 review)