Labor

Wal-Mart's zeal to "hold the lowest feasible [inventory] level while avoiding the risks of 'stock outs,'" its competitive advantage, is also the weak link in its anti-union empire.

Working Families Party leaders around New York congratulated the state legislature for enacting a $2 multi-part increase in the state hourly minimum wage, completing the WFP's six-year campaign on behalf of low-wage workers.

The Ever Reviled Records Worker Collective is proud to announce the launching of our new website: another step in on our on going efforts to undermine capitalism and the state while building the counter-culture. We got our cyberspace guns loaded and ready to storm the internet front!

Bolivarian Revolution

(Rochester)--Contract talks involving over twelve hundred
University of Rochester employees broke off earlier this week with no
agreement in sight. Negotiations between two organized groups and the
University began in September. Contracts covering one thousand employees
of Strong Memorial Hospital and another two hundred employees of the
University of Rochester's non-medical divisions expired on October 2. The
contracts were extended through October 30 with the hope that new
agreements could be reached by that time.

The Million Worker March is a historic mobilization for the U.S. working class. Never before has the labor movement stood independent of the Democrats and Republicans to clearly state the class needs of those who do all the work in this country. This is what one socialist group, Workers Action, suggests to strengthen and expand this groundbreaking movement.

Come all who conscientiously object to the capitalist transformation of Earth into industrial wasteland! In defiance of Walls designed to divide and displace us, on October 17 in Washington DC, before, during and after the Million Worker March, we invite you to join the Eco-Justice/Palestine Solidarity Bloc to participate in a powerful, long-overdue fusion of movements!

This is a call for proposals for the National Conference on Organized Resistance on February 3rd through February 6th, 2005!

David McReynolds, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, called today for: an increase in the minimum wage to $10 an hour; a constitutional amendment to guarantee a living wage job; strengthening of workers' rights,, including the right to unionize, starting with a repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; a reduction in the work week to 32 hours; increase government support for employee ownership; enactment of a single-payer universal health care system; extending federal labor laws to protect farmworkers; and, mandatory six week vacations for all workers.

ENOUGH WITH THE SWIFT BOATS: CANDIDATES SHOULD ADDRESS SOMETHING NEW YORKERS NEED TODAY -- TIME FOR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY