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Slaughter: Detroit Fast Food Workers Join Strike Wave
Znet Article, May, 12 2013
Jane Slaughter
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“We work too hard to be paid minimum wage”
Slaughter: Fight for May Day’s Two Traditions
Znet Article, May, 02 2013
Jane Slaughter
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Long hours, short hours, or variable schedules don’t just make life miserable for the individual worker and her family. They also make it harder to take collective action
Slaughter: Can Worker-Owners Make a Big Factory Run?
Znet Article, April, 07 2013
Jane Slaughter
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With about the same workforce, the plant is producing 50 percent more tires than before it was closed
Slaughter: Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant with Three-Year Strike
Znet Article, April, 04 2013
Jane Slaughter
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'If the owners don’t want it, let’s run it ourselves'
Slaughter: Coercive Wellness Programs Create New Headaches
Znet Article, January, 10 2013
Jane Slaughter
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Employers who run workers ragged with stress, speedup, and forced overtime suddenly want to encourage them to be “well”
Slaughter: Nissan Workers Seek Fair Shake in Mississippi Plant
Znet Article, August, 06 2012
Jane Slaughter
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United Auto Workers President Bob King says organizing foreign-owned auto plants is make-or-break for the shrinking union
Slaughter: UE Occupies Chicago Window Plant Again, and Wins Reprieve
Znet Article, February, 26 2012
Jane Slaughter
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UE Local 1110 members took over the Serious Materials plant after being told by local management that the factory would close immediately
Slaughter: Ontario Caterpillar Workers Locked Out for Refusing Half Pay
Znet Article, February, 02 2012
Jane Slaughter
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Cat locked out the 465 workers at its Electro-Motive Diesel locomotive factory in London, Ontario, on December 31
Slaughter: Toronto Mayor Set to Lock Out City Workers
Znet Article, January, 30 2012
Jane Slaughter
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The mayor of Toronto seeks to privatize city services and is taking on the largest public sector locals in Canada to do so
Slaughter: Longshore Union Settles Grain Dispute as Confrontation Loomed
Znet Article, January, 29 2012
Jane Slaughter
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In a surprise settlement reached Monday, the Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) and transnational grain exporter EGT announced they’d settled their legal disputes
Slaughter: Occupy Wake-Up Call Caps Remarkable Year
Znet Article, January, 01 2012
Jane Slaughter
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Labor needs to relearn an old lesson: We make progress when we disrupt business as usual
Slaughter: Campaign Accelerates To Recall Wisconsin Governor
Znet Article, December, 19 2011
Jane Slaughter
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Wisconsin unionists and thousands of others announced today they have gathered 507,000 signatures in four weeks in their drive to force Walker into a recall
Slaughter: Strike Wave in China Puts Heat On Official Union
Znet Article, December, 08 2011
Jane Slaughter
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China faced its second wave of strikes in two years, as thousands of workers in industrial southern provinces walked out this fall
Slaughter: Rolling Sympathy Strikes Harass Food-Service Giant
Znet Article, November, 26 2011
Jane Slaughter
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Rolling strikes apparently kept management off guard
Slaughter: What Can Unions Learn from the Occupy Movement?
Znet Article, November, 18 2011
Jane Slaughter
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The welcoming reaction of union leaders and members to the Occupy movement has been heartening
Slaughter: Chicago Warehouse Workers Navigate Maze of Contractors to Organize
Znet Article, November, 14 2011
Jane Slaughter
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In its organizing thus far, WWJ has found enough stability in the workforce to form an organization that can win gains
Slaughter: Can Sandy Pope Win 3-Way Teamsters Race?
Znet Article, November, 06 2011
Jane Slaughter
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Teamsters are voting for their national officers in a mail ballot that will determine whether the union’s leadership is jolted to life—or remains asleep at the wheel
Slaughter: Teamsters Spread Sympathy Strikes
Znet Article, November, 04 2011
Jane Slaughter
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Teamsters are spreading sympathy strikes across the country at the nation’s second-largest food services company
Slaughter: Deadline for Rail Strike Looms, but Delay Is Likely
Znet Article, October, 06 2011
Jane Slaughter
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As the clock ticks down to a midnight Thursday strike deadline, railroad workers aren’t holding their breaths despite a 97 percent strike vote by the Locomotive Engineers union
Rohar: Longshore Workers Dump Scab Grain to Protect Jobs
Znet Article, September, 09 2011
Evan Rohar
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The confrontation between West Coast longshore workers and an anti-union exporter exploded
Slaughter: Auto Companies Recover, But Jobs Are Harder
Znet Article, August, 26 2011
Jane Slaughter
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The truth is that the United Auto Workers had given up many rights on the shop floor years ago
Slaughter: Next Low-Wage Haven: USA
Znet Article, August, 06 2011
Jane Slaughter
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Within five years certain Southern U.S. states will be among the cheapest manufacturing locations in the developed world—and competitive with China
Slaughter: Teamsters Reformer Has Votes to Challenge Hoffa
Znet Article, June, 13 2011
Jane Slaughter
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The race to lead the Teamsters is on
Slaughter: Corporate America in a Tizzy over Labor Board’s Boeing Order
Znet Article, June, 09 2011
Jane Slaughter
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The right to withhold your labor by striking is a fundamental right guaranteed by labor law for 75 years
Abbas: Today Strikers Took Center Stage
Znet Article, February, 12 2011
Kamal Abbas
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Though all eyes are on Cairo and its Liberation Square, few could know that Egyptian workers have been protesting and striking in huge numbers for years.
Brenner: Cutting wages won't solve Detroit 3's crisis
Znet Article, December, 05 2008
Mark Brenner
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In the 1980s, Chevrolet proclaimed itself the "Heartbeat of America," but today the American auto industry barely registers a pulse. As Washington considers Detroit's plea for life support, the only place where pundits, politicians and Big Three e...
Brenner: End of the Road: If the Auto Industry is Dead What does that Mean for Workers?
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Mark Brenner
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As politicians in Washington debate the future of the U.S. auto industry, we are reposting this article from the September 2006 issue of Labor Notes. It spells out the how the "Big Three" got into the mess they are in today, and what the UAW--toge...
