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Finamore: A Progressive Tax for California
Znet Article, March, 08 2010
Carl Finamore
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Oregon voters took a huge step on January 26 to stem the $727 million state budget shortfall that would have otherwise led to massive reductions in social services and education. This was a huge about face for voters who previously the last severa...
Finamore: Poor Karl, Still a Four-Letter Word
Znet Article, January, 21 2010
Carl Finamore
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American politics is focused almost exclusively on individuals who run for office with voters bouncing back and forth between Democrats and Republicans. The whole concept of class analysis is foreign and alien to contempory discourse. As a result,...
Finamore: UAL Flight Attendants Rally for a Contract
Znet Article, January, 07 2010
Carl Finamore
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15,000 United Airline flight attendants gave up $3 billion dollars in concessions during the carrier's bankruptcy years. Now they aim to recover some of these losses.
Finamore: Strikes, Boycotts & Arrests in SF Labor Dispute
Znet Article, January, 06 2010
Carl Finamore
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San Francisco Local 2, UNITE-HERE is experiencing very tough negotiations with the 61 union hotels and has already launched 3 strikes, 5 boycotts and two civil disobedience actions resulting in several hundred arrests. By the middles of 2010, ther...
Finamore: St. Francisco Doesn't Live Up to Its Name
Znet Article, November, 18 2009
Carl Finamore
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San Francisco hotel workers conduct a 3-year strike against the famed Westin St. Francis hotel to be followed by a boycott until the 61 hotels agree to back off from demands to slash benefits and increase work loads.
Finamore: Strike Two Against San Francisco Hotels
Znet Article, November, 10 2009
Carl Finamore
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UNITE-HERE, Local 2, represents 9000 members in San Francisco working in 61 hotels whose contracts expired in August 2009. Profitable hotels are demanding concessions, especially in health care benefits. The union is conducting a series of limited...
Finamore: Strike One for Hotels in San Francisco
Znet Article, November, 06 2009
Carl Finamore
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San Francisco's 9000 Local 2, UNITE-HERE members started their first three-day strike at the Grand Hyatt on the same day the Pritzker-family owners made a $1 billion killing on Wall St.
Finamore: Politicians Mangle Health Reform
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Carl Finamore
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Commentary on Congressional health reform legislation as of November 4, 2009.
Finamore: San Francisco Readies for Major Labor Dispute
Znet Article, October, 26 2009
Carl Finamore
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9000 San Francisco hotel workers sanctioned a strike by a 92% margin. Ready to take the streets like they did in their victorious 2004-2006 53-day strike/lockout and 2-year boycott, the union is not backing down as they face tough resistance from ...
Finamore: Backstage at the AFL-CIO Convention
Znet Article, September, 19 2009
Carl Finamore
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Any large national convention attracting over 1000 delegates and 2000 guests like the 11.5 million-member AFL-CIO gathering in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 13-17, is necessarily well-scripted and choreographed. This is to be expected.
Finamore: Backstage at the AFL-CIO Convention
Znet Article, September, 19 2009
Carl Finamore
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The September 13-17, 2009, AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania resulted in approved health care, immigration and other socially progressive resolutions that will give grassroots' activists the opportunity to succesffully broaden suuport...
Finamore: China's Birthday Stimulation
Znet Article, September, 04 2009
Carl Finamore
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Examination of China's economy on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. Compares stimulus economic policies of China and the United States.
Finamore: Cards Stacked against Labor
Znet Article, August, 17 2009
Carl Finamore
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Labor has to play hardball in negotiations to regain lost ground, some of it given away by our "friends" in Congress.
Finamore: Many Languages, One Voice!
Znet Article, August, 07 2009
Carl Finamore
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Report of San Francisco Local 2, UNITE-HERE convention and its ability to gain the best contracts in the country for hotel workers.
Finamore: Would You Rather be Easten by a Fox or a Wolf
Znet Article, August, 07 2009
Carl Finamore
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Critique of the political malaise of labor and progressive movements, six months after the election of President Barack Obama.
Finamore: New Prescription for Healthy Union
Znet Article, April, 30 2009
Carl Finamore
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Rank and file revolt of Healthcare workers in California against SEIU leads to the formation of a new National Union of Healtcare Workers.
Finamore: Kill and Be Killed
Znet Article, March, 27 2009
Carl Finamore
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National news wires lit up with shocking news that four Oakland, California, police officers were shot dead on March 21 in two separate gunfire exchanges with 26-year old parolee Lovelle Mixon. It began with an apparently routine traffic stop by t...
Finamore: Save Us from Those Who Would Save Us
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Carl Finamore
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The Obama Recovery Plan grants billions of dollars to capitalist banking institutions and corporations but does nothing to increase the standard of living of American working families.
Finamore: Thank God I'm an Atheist
Znet Article, December, 04 2008
Carl Finamore
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Both right-wing commentator Bill O'Reilly shared the childhood experience of a Catholic education but there any similarities end.
Finamore: Capitalists on Steroids, Labor on Tranquilizers
Znet Article, September, 25 2008
Carl Finamore
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Labor dramatic decline should be measured more by its loss of politican independence than by loss in membership. Nowhere is this more clear than in its failed response to the Fall 2008 collapse of major capitalist financial institutions.
Finamore: China in the Spotlight
Znet Article, August, 24 2008
Carl Finamore
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High-level Chinese labor delegation meets for the first time with AFL-CIO Central Labor Council representatives.
Finamore: What Will an Obama Presidency Bring?
Znet Article, July, 30 2008
Carl Finamore
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After 16 years of someone named either Bush or Clinton occupying the White House, the timing was right for Barack Obama’s presumptive victory as the Democratic Party presidential nominee. It was a victory the party establishment did not see coming.
Finamore: Street Protestor Looks Back to 1968 Chicago & Ahead to 2008 Denver
Znet Article, July, 30 2008
Carl Finamore
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Finamore believes the contrasts between the two Democratic conventions in 1968 and 2008 mirror dramatic differences in politics in America.
Finamore: I Ain't Gonna Work No More
Znet Article, May, 11 2008
Carl Finamore
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On my 62nd birthday, am in the mood to reflect on childhood influences that made me the wild-eyed radical I am today.
Finamore: Is Outsourcing Air Maintenance Safe?
Znet Article, April, 17 2008
Carl Finamore
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An April 14, 2008, interview by Carl Finamore with former NTSB member John Goglia (ret)who is the only working airline mechanic ever Senate-approved for that position. Mr. Goglia gives his thoughts on the affects outsourcing maintenance has on ...
Finamore: Deregulation Comes in for Hard Landing
Znet Article, April, 14 2008
Carl Finamore
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In the era of deregulation, FAA has stood by while airlines are outsourcing maintenance jobs leading to a deterioration of safety standards.
Finamore: Teamster Gamble Pays Off at UAL
Znet Article, April, 01 2008
Carl Finamore
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The Teamsters union won a big election victory over the discredited Aircraft Maintenance Fraternal Association (AMF) at UAL.
Finamore: Mergers Stall, Fares Soar, Services Slump and Consumers Sour
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Carl Finamore
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Merger fever has cooled off so the industry is attempting to achieve the same goals consolidation failed to achieve by cutting back service and reducing employees.
Finamore: Seven Deadly Sins (Signs) of San Francisco
Znet Article, March, 24 2008
Carl Finamore
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The largely Black San Francisco low-income neighborhood of Bay View Hunters Point (BVHP)has been systematically poisoned by toxins produced by the US Naval Shipyards servicing of nuclear-powered ships for the past several decades. Redevelopment...
Finamore: Footprints of the San Francisco Working Class
Znet Article, March, 07 2008
Carl Finamore
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Photos and Slides of the tremendous impact and legacy of an important sector of the San Francisco working class through its growth and decline.
