Solidarity Work

• McCain's health care muddle (5/08)
  
  
• Dock workers close west coast ports to protest Iraq war (5/08)
  
  
• Bad Burger King (5/08)
  
  
• Workers Memorial Day (5/08)
  
  
• Honduran trade union leader killed (5/08)
  
  
• Workers Win Court Battle For Union Representation After Ten Years (4/08)
  
  
• Columbian trade unionists still targeted (4/08)
  
  
• McCain opposes Equal Rights bill in Senate (4/08)
  
  
• US union busters in Britain (4/08)
  
  
• Legacy of MLK: The right to organize (3/08)
  
  
• First union hospital in Texas (3/08)
  
  
• Homeland Security Withdraws Bid to Curb Union Rights (2/08)
  
  
• Columbia,Unions, and Free Trade
  
  
• Union membership rose 311,000 in 2007
  
  
• Starbucks Emails Describe Efforts to Stop Unionization (1/08)
  
  
• Unions gear up for fight against Verizon (1/08)
  
  
• Labor Board Restricts Union Use of E-Mail (1/08)
  
  
• State of the Unions (12/07)
  
  
• Critics say NLRB sabotages unions (12/07)
  
  
  
• Nurses Union Defends Cheney "Dead By Now" Ad (12/07)
  
  
• Warehouse Workers Quit in Immigration Inquiry (12/07
  
  
• This new year, hang up on Verizon! (12/06)
• Toussaint sentenced to jail (2/06)
• A worker fired for trying to unionize (2/06)

• Transit workers settle (1/06)

• Transit workers "shut 'em down" (12/05)

• Verizon won't bargain in good faith (12/05)

• NYU grad students go out on strike (11/05)

• Iraqi Labor Movement Leaders and U.S. Labor Against the War join forces to oppose the U.S. occupation of Iraq (6/05)

• IRS plans to lay off workers in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx (6/05)

• United Airlines threatens to eliminate workers' pensions (5/05)

• Grad students fight for the right to organize (4/05)

• 1180 activists travel to Colombia and the U.K. (2/04)
  Same struggles, different countries

• Read the preliminary report on Coca-Cola's labor rights abuses in Colombia (1/04)

• Read the press release on the Coke report (1/04)

• 70,000 in California strike for healthcare; battle affects us all (2/04)
  What you can do to help

• The U.S. arrests Iraq's union leaders (1/04)
  By David Bacon
  This is bringing democracy to the Middle East?

• Privatization through assassination (4/03)
  In Colombia, trade unionists are fighting back against corporate globalization; too often, they pay with their lives

• Labor's anti-war commitment grows as protests continue (3/03)
  A quarter of a million march in NYC; the AFL passes a historic resolution (for more on the anti-war movement, 1180's role in it, and more, see the Political Action page)

• Another world is possible (2/02)
  From New York to Porto Alegre, thousands challenge corporate globalization

• Victory for the Charleston Five! (11/01)
  In the Deep South, the struggle for civil rights and workers' rights are always intertwined, and after a 21-month fight, longshoremen in S.C. have held the line on both

• The world is not for sale (7/01)
  Protests against the FTAA in Quebec City

• A hopeful but perilous moment (11/00)
  New movement against corporate domination sparks government repression, media blackout
  

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