Labor

Please post information on Jostens (graduation caps/gowns, rings, yearbooks) and their use of prison slave labor, brutality, racism, sexism, rape/sexual assault, tax fraud/theft, toxicity and risk to public health, violation of student rights, etc.   Jostens is based in Minneapolis, yet is doing harm to prisoners and students in every state. 

"Everybody recognizes that the system is broken.  Why would there be any reason to keep that system going for any amount of time until we can change it?" Eduardo Cardenas, a member of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition, is discussing the May 1 March for Immigrants' and Workers' Rights.

Job Action Would Be Biggest U.S. Strike in Recent Years - And First Under Obama - IWW/CWA Dual Carders in the Heart of the Struggle 

At midnight April 5, 2009 contracts for most of the component groups represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) at the telecom giant AT&T have expired. After weeks of mobilizing, around 90,000 workers are poised to strike one of the largest and most profitable multinational corporations. A job action by CWA would be the largest and among the most significant labor action in the United States since the UPS strike in 1997. It would also be the first major strike under the Obama regime. The brewing confrontation could set the tone for class struggle in the U.S. for the near future.
 

NOTE: Includes FREE double-feature on April 2, 3 @ Walker Art Center

reviewed by Lydia Howell, KFAI Radio

It's such a pure delight to discover a new filmmaker that's NOT the usual empty hype.---and you've got a great chance to do so. April 2nd and 3rd, Walker Art Center presents the three features made in the last five years by award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker, Ramin Bahrani.

http://socialistworker.org/2009/02/20/enemies-of-unions

Analysis: Adam Turl

The enemies of unions and the lies they tell
Adam Turl looks at the employers' dirty campaign to block legislation that would make it easier to join a union.

February 20, 2009

WITHIN DAYS of receiving $25 billion in federal bailout money--paid for with your tax dollars--Bank of America hosted a conference call of corporate executives and conservatives to strategize about how to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).

PRESS RELEASE
MARCH AND RALLY TO PROTEST STUDENT FEES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
MONDAY FEB 2ND STARTING AT NOON
MARCHING FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCE TOWERS TO FRASER HALL
Grad students at the University of Minnesota are marching to protest exorbitant student fees. We call into question the significant gap between the highest paid and the lowest paid members of this university community.