The times reports that the UAW is thinking about a merger. Mergers raise a lot of questions, but for me and in this current climate I think the most important one has to always be will the merger facilitate an increase in new organizing and an ability to organize better. If it's a purely defensive maneuver, or a way to artifically inflate dwindling numbers of certain unions without confronting the fact that the percentage of private sector workers in this country who are union members is anemic, how does it further workers' interests in the long term, particularly those of us who are fighting state and corporate attacks on our right to organize?
Will the new democratic bicameral majority reverse the privatization of government work?
Tasini reports that the arbitrator in the MTA-TWU Local 100 contract fight has issued a binding decision which gives the union exactly what they voted down in the aftermath of last winter's strike.
Low wage Soho retail workers march down Broadway, in a campaign supported both by a community organization-run workers' center (The Good Old Lower East Side's Retail Action Project,) and the RWDSU/UFCW)
Parking production assistants organizing with the UAW held a rally at Rockefeller Center on thursday, and the overwhelming majority of seats on the House of Delegates, the new company union, have been won by GSOC organizers, including me.
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