From xcruz@webtv.net Mon Feb 2 02:45:29 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 02:45:24 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: Han Young: January 31, 1998 (fwd) --WebTV-Mail-1477261784-11030 --WebTV-Mail-1477261784-11030 Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 15:23:00 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: dnathan@utep.edu Sender: owner-FRONTERA-L@cornell.edu From: Debbie Nathan To: frontera-L@cornell.edu Subject: Han Young: January 31, 1998 (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:15:11 -0800 (PST) From: Campaign for Labor Rights To: clr@igc.org Subject: Han Young: January 31, 1998 Labor Alerts: a service of Campaign for Labor Rights To receive our email labor alerts, send a message to CLR@igc.apc.org Phone: (541) 344-5410 Web site: http://www.compugraph.com/clr Membership/newsletter. Send $35.00 to Campaign for Labor Rights, 1247 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003. Sample newsletter available on request. [Information provided by the Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, who ask that activists seeking updates contact Campaign for Labor Rights: (541) 344-5410, ] HAN YOUNG: January 31, 1998 Talks underway but no contract bargaining yet. Han Young management still violating agreements and Mexican law. Please continue planning for February 7 actions. New letter to Han Young attorney. NAO case hearing still scheduled for February 18. Background: Workers at Han Young (a small feeder factory for the Hyundai Precision America tractor trailer plant near Tijuana, Mexico) have twice voted to be represented by STIMAHCS, a union affiliated with the independent FAT labor federation. After a roller coaster series of events, on January 14, the Mexican federal government stepped in to broker an agreement between the workers and Han Young management. Since then, although the overall atmosphere has improved, Han Young management continue to violate some terms of the agreement, as well as the terms of the existing contract and Mexican labor law. As reported earlier, Han Young management have given STIMAHCS a copy of the existing contract but have not yet signed the contract over to STIMAHCS and have not yet begun collective bargaining over changes in the contract. Hyundai has been facilitating resolution between management and the workers and initiation of talks with the company by representatives of the workers. The workers are very hopeful about these developments. Because there has not yet been a process of collective bargaining resulting in a new contract, plans are still moving forward for an NAO hearing on February 18. (The NAO, National Administrative Office, is the branch of the U.S. Labor Department responsible for implementing the labor side agreement under NAFTA.) If there is a breakthrough and significant agreements are made, the NAO case could be halted. REQUESTED ACTIONS: 1) February 7 day of local actions in solidarity with the Han Young workers. Because management still has not engaged in good-faith collective bargaining, continuing international pressure is vitally important. Please continue to plan for demonstrations on Saturday, February 7 and please let us know of your plans. Activities can be held at Mexican consulates, U.S. government buildings or other public locations but these are NOT demonstrations against any government. 2) New letter to Han Young attorney. We receive many inquiries from activists who wonder whether these faxes do any good. We know for a fact that faxes are not only helpful but, in some instances, faxes have proved decisive in moving the process forward. This is the case with the faxes which a number of you recently sent to Han Young's attorney. We have provided a new sample fax, below. Even if you have sent a fax recently, a new fax would be very helpful. Lic. Ricardo Estrada Tijuana, Mexico Fax: 011-526-634-3554 Dear Mr. Estrada: In open defiance of the January 14 agreements signed by your client, Han Young, a representative of the CROC continues to be allowed to function in a "human relations" capacity at the factory. Also, management continues to take illegal punitive actions against workers who press for contract negotiations to begin. Han Young management has cited you as its counsel when blatantly violating Mexican labor law and blatantly violating the terms of the existing contract. You have a reputation as an intelligent and knowledgeable lawyer. Certainly, you would not want to risk your professional stature for the sake of one rogue client, the Han Young management. The Mexican federal government has emphatically stated its intention to enforce the terms of the January 14 agreements and to implement Mexican labor law with regard to the Han Young situation. Barring a satisfactory resolution of the situation at Han Young, the U.S. National Administrative Office will press forward with its hearing still scheduled for February 18. I hardly need to remind you of the urgency which the Mexican government feels about resolving this situation and avoiding a hearing. Time is running short. I urge you to steer your client in a direction which will not put you on a collision course with the Mexican federal government. Please see to it that Han Young management immediately ceases its violations of the January 14 agreements and its violations of Mexican labor law. Sincerely, --WebTV-Mail-1477261784-11030-- From xcruz@webtv.net Mon Feb 2 03:31:29 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 03:31:25 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: [PE] OLYMPIA, WA: STATE LAWMAKERS CONSIDER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION --WebTV-Mail-351832563-14317 --WebTV-Mail-351832563-14317 Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 19:24:45 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU Originator: 2000seradc@listserv Sender: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU From: Roberto Calderon To: xcruz@webtv.net Subject: [PE] OLYMPIA, WA: STATE LAWMAKERS CONSIDER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION X-Comment: Discussion/Advocacy of Human, Labor & Civil Rights Source: The Associated Press, "Battle Over Preferences Moves North," THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE, Sunday, February 1, 1998, A-1, A-15 (Riverside, CA). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Associated Press, "Battle Over Preferences Moves North," THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE, Sunday, February 1, 1998, A-1, A-15. * Washington state lawmakers will consider a measure patterned after California's Prop. 209. OLYMPIA, Washington.--The movement to end racial and gender preferences in government hiring is shifting to Washington state now that backers have won their fight to abolish them in California. A Washington measure--it mirrors California's law--drew enough voter signatures this fall to qualify for consideration by the Republican-controlled Legislature this winter. "We're excited about what has happened in Washington, and I can tell you it gives new momentum to the movement," says Ward Connerly of Scaramento, who spearheaded the campaign for California's Prop. 209. California voters approved Prop. 209 in 1996. The law bars state and local governments from considering race or gender in hiring, contracting or college admissions. It recently survived legal challenges when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear it. Opponents here say Connerly is mistaken if he thinks the California victory portends the same in Washington. "We see no momentum in what they've done. What we see is the influence of outside money," says Brian Komar, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, which monitors attempts to roll back affirmative-action programs around the country. Komar was referring to the fact that more than half the $373,458 raised to finance the initiative campaign came from Connerly's conservative American Civil Rights Institute, the group that helped bankroll the California initiative. In Washington state, much of the money was used to pay people to gather the required 179,248 signatures of registered voters. A more telling measure of the movement's momentum can be found in statistics gathered by his organization, Komar said. "If you look at 1997, there were at least 25 bills in over a dozen states to roll back affirmative action. Not one was enacted into law," he said. "Right now, Washington is the only state with an initiative, and we don't believe it will ever become law." He noted that Houston voters last fall rejected a ballot initiative to end race and gender preferences in city contracting. That vote reflects the nation's pulse on the issue, Komar contends. ************************************************************ MINORITY EMPLOYMENT IN WASHINGTON ************************************************************ The number of minorities employed by Washington state government increased between 1980 and mid-1997, partly because of the effects of affirmative action policies, according to the state Department of Personnel. * Overall, minorities made up about 10 percent of the state workforce of 33,178 in July 1980. By April 1997, they made up about 16 percent of 48,021 workers. * Blacks made up about 3.5 percent of the workforce in 1980. By April 1997, they accounted for 4.8 percent. Blacks make up 3.4 percent of the state's population of 5.5 million. * Asians made up about 2.9 percent of the workforce in 1980. By April 1997, they accounted for 5.1 percent. Asians make up 6 percent of the state population. * Hispanics made up about 1.9 percent of the 1980 workforce. By April 1997, they accounted for 4 percent. Hispanics make up 5.7 percent of the state population. * American Indians, 1.8 percent of the 1980 workforce, made up 2.1 percent of the total in April 1997. They make up 3 percent of the state population. ************************************************************ Source: The Associated Press ************************************************************ Connerly scoffs at Komar's views, calling the Houston vote "an anomaly" amid growing voter dissatisfaction with affirmative action programs. And he dismissed the failures of anti-affirmative action measures in state legislatures, saying they reflect a lack of political courage, not public sentiment. "Legislative bodies don't have the stomach to take on the established powers, the NACCP, the Black Caucus, the ACLU," the businessman said. "If this Legislature doesn't pass Initiative 200, then we believe Washington voters will," he said. Whatever the outcome, the state fight over the measure is shaping up to be ugly. "Damn them and damn their initiative," said Michael Ali McCauley, a black state worker. Affirmative action gave him an edge in landing a state job as a workplace safety official, and rightly so, said McCauley, his voice cracking with anger. "Affirmative action is about fairness, about giving us access to the doors we need to get anywhere. That's all it is," he said. But Republican state Rep. Scott Smith, an insurance salesman from Graham who helped lead the signature-gathering campaign, says there are plenty of angry white males in Washington who support the measure. "An awful lot of people like me have lost out on jobs and on contracts because they were passed over for somebody else because of the color of their skin," he said. "That isn't fair." If lawmakers here don't pass Initiative 200, it will automatically go to voters in November. The Legislature could also come up with its own version to compete with the initiative on the ballot. Legislative leaders haven't decided how to proceed. The state Republican Party and leaders of both houses support the proposal, but some fear passage by lawmakers could undercut GOP efforts to woo women and minority voters. Democratic Gov. Gary Locke and the state Democratic Party oppose the measure. Locke has not veto power over initiatives, but the nation's first Chinese-American governor says he will speak out against it during legislative or voter consideration. --WebTV-Mail-351832563-14317-- From xcruz@webtv.net Tue Feb 3 00:38:08 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 00:37:59 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: MEXICAN LABOR NEWS & ANALYSIS, VOL. III, NO. 3 (fwd) --WebTV-Mail-1889888441-13020 --WebTV-Mail-1889888441-13020 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:10:20 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU Originator: 2000seradc@listserv Sender: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU From: Roberto Calderon To: xcruz@webtv.net Subject: MEXICAN LABOR NEWS & ANALYSIS, VOL. III, NO. 3 (fwd) X-Comment: Discussion/Advocacy of Human, Labor & Civil Rights Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:19:16 -0500 From: Dan La Botz <103144.2651@compuserve.com> To: "Roberto R. Calderon" Subject: Mex Labor News, Feb 2 MEXICAN LABOR NEWS AND ANALYSIS February 2, 1998 Vol. III, No. 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------- About Mexican Labor News and Analysis Mexican Labor News and Analysis is produced in collaboration with the Authentic Labor Front (Frente Autentico del Trabajo - FAT) of Mexico and with the United Electrical Workers (UE) of the United States and is published the 2nd and 16th of every month. MLNA can be viewed at the UE's international web site: HTTP://www.igc.apc.org/unitedelect/. For information about direct subscriptions, submission of articles, and all queries contact editor Dan La Botz at the following e-mail address: 103144.2651@compuserve.com or call in the U.S. (513) 961-8722. The U.S. mailing address is: Dan La Botz, Mexican Labor News and Analysis, 3436 Morrison Place, Cincinnati, OH 45220. 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Staff: Editor, Dan La Botz; Correspondents in Mexico: Bob Briggs, Peter Gellert, Jess Kincaid, Wendy Patterson, Jorge Robles, Juan-Carlos Romero, Fred Rosen, Don Sherman, Sam Smucker, Linda Stevenson. ----------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE *AFL-CIO's Sweeney Makes Historic Visit to Mexico *CTM Union Strikes 10 Maquiladoras; 13,000 Workers Involved *Han Young Workers Still Have No Contract, Actions on Feb 7 *Mexican Teachers Mobilize; Prepare for National Convention *Mayor Cardenas Survives First Encounter with PRI Unions *Victor Flores Expels Dissident Railroad Workers *Farm Laborers Riot in Sinaloa over Wage Chiseling *DINA Auto Workers to Strike February 6 for 35% Wage Hike *Federations Jockey Over May Day March *Correction *Sorry, no Social Statistics This Time. ----------------------------------------------------------------- AFL-CIO'S SWEENEY MAKES HISTORIC VISIT TO MEXICO, REACHES OUT TO INDEPENDENT FEDERATIONS, UNT AND FAT by Don Sherman [Mexico City] John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO led a labor delegation to Mexico last month for two days of talks with Mexican labor officials. This trip represented an historic development and a turning point in U.S.-Mexican labor relations. In the past, the AFL-CIO maintained ties almost exclusively with the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). But on this trip Sweeney also met with independent federations such as the new National Union of Workers (UNT) and the Authentic Labor Front (FAT). Accompanying Sweeney were George Becker, president of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), Jay Mazur, president of United Needle Textile Employees Union (UNITE), and Stanley Gacek, Assistant Director of International Affairs Department of the AFL-CIO. The last such visit to Mexico by an AFL president was made over 75 years ago in 1924 by the organization's founder Samuel Gompers. John L. Lewis, head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) visited Mexico in 1938. Sweeney Promises to Work With All The first stop for the U.S. labor delegation was at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. In a speech to an audience of 200 Mexican labor and university activists, mostly from the union at the university (STUNAM), Sweeney stated that he had come to Mexico to "work with the leaders of Mexican unions and other democratic forces in the country." "We want to work with our brothers and sisters in all parts of the Mexican labor movement and with freedom lovers throughout Mexican society," said Sweeney. He emphasized that he wanted to "find practical ways to work together by seeking and developing coordinated cross-border organizing and bargaining strategies." Sweeney also talked extensively of the need for unions to confront the growing problems brought by the globalization of capital. Speaking in a soft voice he sharply criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for creating hardships for Mexican workers and taking jobs from U.S. workers. In their first meetings in Mexico, the U.S. labor delegation was certainly not going to find allies. The group met with President Zedillo, and other officials in the Mexican government. That meeting had been arranged by Tom McLarty, special Latin American advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton. Later at a press briefing, Sweeney commented that the meeting with Zedillo had been positive, though he gave no specifics. Mexican Labor Secretary, Javier Bonilla Garcia, however, apparently did not share Sweeney's positive outlook. Soon after this meeting, Bonilla bluntly warned several Mexican union leaders not to make any agreements with the AFL-CIO that would "affect Mexican sovereignty." The U. S. labor delegation also met with Leonardo Rodriguez Alcaine, general secretary of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM). A week after that meeting, Rodriguez Alcaine warned Mexican unions about working too closely with the U.S. labor movement and he declared that "Mexicans should and were able to resolve their own problems." These reactions from the government and from the leader of the CTM should not have surprised Sweeney and the others in the delegation. Just a few years ago, attempts were made by AFL-CIO officials to develop a joint Mexican-U.S. labor strategy on NAFTA. At that time the CTM refused to even consider taking any position on the treaty that was divergent from that of the Mexican government. Today there is a new opening in the Mexican labor movement. With the formation of the National Union of Workers (UNT) last year, and the growing strength of independent federations like the Authentic Labor Front (FAT), the U.S. labor delegation was able to meet with Mexican union leaders who shared some of the same goals, such as opposing NAFTA and organizing maquiladora workers. The U.S. union delegation talked with the leaders of the UNT, including Francisco Hernandez Juarez, leader of the Mexican Telephone Workers Union (STRM); Augustin Rodriquez Fuentes, head of STUNAM; and Alejandra Barrales Magadeleno, leader of the Federation of Unions of Goods and Services (FESEBES). The result of the discussions between the AFL-CIO and UNT leaders was a general understanding that the two federations should cooperate to improve conditions for both Mexican and U.S. workers. The discussion revolved around the possibilities of working together in the future to revise NAFTA by including a social contract and a corporate code of conduct. There were also suggestions about the need to organize migrant workers and to develop strategies on cross-border organizing. Although there were no agreements signed at this meeting between the UNT and the AFL-CIO, there was a general understanding that they would meet again soon to explore further the questions of organizing and improving the NAFTA labor standards. The U.S. labor leaders also visited Bertha Lujan and Alfredo Dominguez, two of the leaders of the Authentic Labor Front (FAT). Lujan reported that they discussed working together to improve the conditions for both U.S. and Mexican workers. Lujan pointed out that her union and other Mexican unions are already participating in joint organizing projects such as organizing Mexican workers in Washington State packing plants and California janitors. ### CTM UNION STRIKES TEN MAQUILADORAS 13,000 WORKERS PARALYZE PRODUCTION by Dan La Botz Thousands of workers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas stopped work in mid-January paralyzing production in electronic and autoparts assembly plants known as maquiladoras. Over 13,000 workers, two- thirds of them women, participated in the strike at 10 plants, most of them owned by multinational corporations. In other plants workers engaged in escalating work stoppages of up to two hours at a time. The strikes and work stoppages, called by the Union of Laborers and Industrial Workers (Sindicato de Jornaleros y Obreros Industriales - SJOI) lasted from January 14 to 16. SJOI is an affiliate of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM). This short strike over the issue of higher wages is the first major strike in the maquiladoras in several years, and may be another sign that Mexico's old industrial relations regime is changing dramatically and rapidly. The union lifted the strike in part because of the intervention of Leonardo Rodriguez Alcaine, head of the Confederation of Mexican Workers, who called for a return to negotiations. Some reports indicate that the union has extended negotiations until February 16. However, Marco A. Valenzuela of the National Council of the Maquiladora Export Industry (CNIME) reported on January 21 that the strike had been settled by granting wage increase of 25 to 29 percent, raising workers' wages from 70 to 95 pesos per day. (Eight Mexican pesos=about one U.S. dollar.) Other sources say the settlement was twenty percent, or six percent above the government's minimum wage increase. An Escalating Strike The SJOI called the strike on January 14 against five maquiladoras: Lucen Technologies, Gobar, Fabricacion Technologica de Mexico, Sunbeam and the General Motors subsidiary Componentes Mecanicos. Some 6,500 employees stopped work bringing production to a halt. The next day the union struck another five plants, all affiliates of General Motors corporation's Delphi division, bringing the total number of workers on strike to 13,000, or almost one third of the 45,000 maquiladora workers who labor in 100 plants in Matamoros. The strike was supported by work stoppages in other plants. Agapito Gonzalez Cavazos, the head of the SJOI, threatened to extend the strike from the 10 to another 50 plants if the employers did not meet the union's demand for a 27 percent wage increase. The Mexican government and employers have been trying to keep wage increases in the area of 17 to 20 percent. The maquiladora employers offered 20 percent. The union is also demanding the "English week," that is a five-day work week with two days off. Many Mexican workers put in five and a half or six days a week. Gonzalez Cavazos declared that his union would carry out a general strike of the city's maquiladora plants if its demands were not. All Matamoros maquiladora workers belong to the SJOI. This is not the first time that Gonzalez Cavazos, or Agapito as he is usually called, has stood up against the corporations. After violent riots in Matamoros in the early 1980s, Agapito began to resist the corporations, and over the years his union became one of the few in Mexico with a 40-hour work week and significantly higher wages than other maquiladora unions. In 1992 Agapito's SJOI also pressed the employers on economic issues. During those contract negotiations, the Mexican government helped the employers by arresting Agapito for tax evasion and carrying him off to Mexico City in order to remove him from the scene in Matamoros. However after the 1992 experience, Fidel Velazquez, then head of the CTM, began to back Leocadio Mendoza, a rival leader of the SJOI. Mendoza came to control about half of the union contracts, giving employers a 48-hour work week and lower wages. We are informed by sources on the border that in this case Mendoza accepted management's offer, while Agapito's half of the union struck. Maquiladora Owners Condemn Strike Rene Gonzalez Rascon, the president of the National Chamber of the Transformation Industry (CANACINTRA) condemned the strike for having destroyed in just a few days the economic stability which was the result of years of work. Head of the Association of Maquiladoras of Matamoros, Rolando Gonzalez Barron, accused the union of "...returning to its pressure tactics of 40 years ago." Gonzalez Barron said that the SJOI had caused economic instability in Matamoros, leading 33 companies with 10,000 jobs to leave the area between 1991 and 1993. Many companies, he said, prefer to relocate to Reynosa. Among the many companies which he says left Matamoros because of its labor union, Gonzalez Barron mentioned Fisher Price, Industrias Thompson and Internacionales Johnson. Along the Mexican border where most of the maquiladoras are located, there are some areas which have no unions and others which have CTM unions or other "official" labor unions which maintain a "low profile," and do not really attempt to raise wages or benefits or to improve workers' working conditions. Management evidently prefers the union-free environment or do- nothing unions to the somewhat more aggressive unions of Matamoros. Gonzalez Barron said that most employers had offered wage increases of between 20 and 28 percent. The wage increase generally being offered was 20 percent for the 55 maquiladoras involved, he said. Rolando Jimenez, a third shift worker from one of the plants said that it's easy for some people to criticize the strike, but one can't live on a wage of 63 pesos per day. The cost of living in Mexico tends to be higher along the U.S.-Mexican border. Pressure on the Maquiladoras Employers The Matamoros maquiladora strike comes only a few weeks after a successful organizing effort by the Independent Metal Workers Union (STIMACHS) affiliated with the Authentic Labor Front (FAT) at the Han Young-Hyundai auto assembly plant in Tijuana, Baja California Norte. STIMACHS won two representation elections among Han Young workers, and then, with the help of the San Diego-based Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, pressured the employer and the Baja California labor board to recognize the union. Another form of pressure on the maquiladora industry has come through legal channels. Last month the U.S. Labor Department found that thousands of maquiladoras administer pregnancy tests to women to screen out pregnant applicants, and also coerce pregnant workers to force them to resign. U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman said the discrimination against pregnant women seemed to violate Mexican law. But she stopped short of calling those practices an illegal violation of the Mexican Constitution and Federal Labor Law which prohibit sex discrimination. The charges had been brought under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) side agreements which established a National Administration Office (NAO) as part of the U.S. Labor Department to hear such charges. The charges were made by Human Rights Watch and other U.S. and Mexican human rights and labor rights organizations. International labor solidarity is also becoming an important factor in support for the maquiladora workers. While unions such as the United Electrical workers (UE) and the International Brother of Teamsters have been working with the Authentic Labor Front (FAT), the AFL had generally held aloof from such efforts. But in his recent visit to Mexico, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney told students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, "We want to stand with you to organize workers in the maquiladoras beginning with the guarantee of an authentic union for the Han Young workers in Tijuana." In addition, the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) recently decided to work with its Mexican affiliates and other labor unions and non-governmental organizations to support maquiladora organizing. The IMF plans to organize a conference on "Organizing in the Maquiladoras." These efforts at international solidarity will be tremendously important for the maquiladora worker. Economic Importance of Maquiladoras According to Marco A. Valenzuela, president of the National Council of the Maquiladora Export Industry (CNIME) Mexico has 3,833 maquiladora assembly plants employing one million workers. Maquiladora production, he asserts, makes up 40 percent of Mexico's total exports, and of the 110 billion U.S. dollars in foreign sales in 1997 the maquiladoras accounted for 42 billion. He predicts that there will be 5,000 maquiladoras by the year 2000. The Mexican Secretary of Commerce (SECOFI) gives somewhat different figures up through the month of November 1997. According to SECOFI Mexico had 3,819 maquiladoras employing 971,321 workers. Of all maquiladoras, according to SECOFI, 1,665 or 43.6 percent are owned by Mexican capital; 1,459 with U.S. capital; 448 with mixed U.S.-Mexican capital; 66 are Japanese; and the rest are owned by capital from other foreign countries. According to SECOFI the total value of maquiladora exports for 1997 was 4.18 billion dollars, making up 42.5 percent of Mexican exports. A Disastrous Social Situation While maquiladoras make up an important contribution to the Mexican economy, this is seldom reflected in the lives of maquiladora workers. In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, some 400 maquiladoras provide employment to 200,000 workers, 65 percent of whom are women. Most workers earn an average of 26 pesos per day, or about U.S.$3.25. In Juarez, the ten-hour day and the six day week prevail. Juarez's government and employers simply do not permit union organization. Of 20 attempts to register unions since 1986, all have been rejected. The police generally break up workers movements for union recognition. Companies maintain blacklists of workers who participate in or sympathize with union organizing efforts. All economic development in Juarez revolves around the needs of the maquiladoras and the industrial parks in which they are located. Consequently while fine roads lead to modern industrial parks, social problems abound in Juarez. Half of all births in Juarez are to single mothers under 20 most of whom are maquiladora workers. The city has a deficit of 70,000 housing units, but 100 maquiladoras have sought an injunction against payments to INFONAVIT, the workers' housing program, claiming the national program is unconstitutional. The pressure of human rights organizations pursuing legal cases under the NAFTA side agreements, the organization of independent unions, and most important the unions' and workers' exercise of economic power through work stoppages and strikes could begin to change all of that, and it appears to be beginning to happening. ### HAN YOUNG WORKERS' UNION IN TALKS WITH MANAGEMENT; BUT NO NEGOTIATIONS YET; ACTIONS PLANNED FEB. 7 The Han Young workers' new independent labor union has held informal talks with management, but contract negotiations have not yet begun. Last month the Mexican federal government, the Baja California labor board, the Hyundai corporation, the Han Young company and the workers reached an agreement recognizing the workers' union, after it had won two representation elections at the Tijuana maquiladora plant. Under the terms of that agreement, the Han Young company which produces exclusively for Hyundai, was to begin contract negotiations with the new union. The workers voted to join the Independent Metal Workers Union (STIMAHCS) which is affiliated with the Authentic Labor Front (FAT). The campaign was won both through the determination of the maquiladora workers and the support of the San Diego-based Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers. But despite two representation elections and the agreement reached last month, the Han Young company continues to violate both that agreement and Mexican labor law. The Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers and the Campaign for Labor Rights have prepared to hold local protest demonstrations throughout the United States on February 7 to support the workers and keep pressure on the company. Demonstrations will be held at the Mexican consulates or at government buildings, though organizers say these are not demonstrations against any government. In addition, the National Administrative Office of the U.S. Labor Department which oversees the labor side agreements to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will hold hearings on the Han Young case on February 18. The Support Committee and the Campaign for Labor Rights urges supporters of the maquiladora workers to send a fax such as that below to Han Young's attorney: Lic. Ricardo Estrada Tijuana, Mexico Fax: 011-526-634-3554 Dear Mr. Estrada: In open defiance of the January 14 agreements signed by your client, Han Young, a representative of the CROC continues to be allowed to function in a "human relations" capacity at the factory. Also, management continues to take illegal punitive actions against workers who press for contract negotiations to begin. Han Young management has cited you as its counsel when blatantly violating Mexican labor law and blatantly violating the terms of the existing contract. You have a reputation as an intelligent and knowledgeable lawyer. Certainly, you would not want to risk your professional stature for the sake of one rogue client, the Han Young management. The Mexican federal government has emphatically stated its intention to enforce the terms of the January 14 agreements and to implement Mexican labor law with regard to the Han Young situation. Barring a satisfactory resolution of the situation at Han Young, the U.S. National Administrative Office will press forward with its hearing still scheduled for February 18. I hardly need to remind you of the urgency which the Mexican government feels about resolving this situation and avoiding a hearing. Time is running short. I urge you to steer your client in a direction which will not put you on a collision course with the Mexican federal government. Please see to it that Han Young management immediately ceases its violations of the January 14 agreements and its violations of Mexican labor law. Sincerely, 295-5879 ----- [Based on a report by Labor Alerts from Information provided by the Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, who ask that activists seeking updates contact Campaign for Labor Rights: (541 344-5410, ]. ### MEXICAN TEACHERS MOBILIZE AS OPPOSITION PREPARES FOR CONVENTION Mexican teachers of the 1.2 million member National Teachers Union (SNTE) have begun a series of mobilizations aimed at state teachers' conventions and at the national convention to take place in March 10-13. In a shift from his usual policies, SNTE general secretary Humberto Davila Esquivel has called for a national demonstration to protest violence against teachers, and promised to meet with the opposition before the convention. In mid-January 25,000 teachers in different cities throughout the state of Oaxaca demonstrated to demand of the SNTE national leadership the right to hold a state convention to elect a new leadership for SNTE Local 22. They also demanded payment of the remaining 50 percent of their Christmas bonus (aguinaldo) still owed them, and for the withdrawal of the Mexican Army from the indigenous zones of Oaxaca, Chiapas and Guerrero. Oaxaca represents one of the strongest bases of the National Coordinating Committee of the Teachers Union (la CNTE), the union's principal opposition caucus. Taking a cue from the opposition, SNTE head Davila Esquivel has called for a national day of protest against violence against teachers on February 14. Esquivel spoke out against violence against teachers in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guerrero and Sinaloa, and called for demonstrations in cities throughout Mexico, as well as a major demonstration in Mexico City. Mexican paramilitary organizations, police forces, and the Mexican Army have arrested, kidnapped, tortured and murdered a number of teachers in those states. Can the Opposition Unite? Meanwhile, dissident teachers are still trying to come up with a unified slate to oppose Davila Esquivel's group which is loyal to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The union has three dissidents currents--the National Coordinating Committee (la CNTE), the Democratic Factions, and New Unionism-- which are seeking unity to the pro-government leadership. In a departure from the leadership's usual practice, the SNTE chief Davila Esquivel has promised to hold a dialogue with the opposition groups in February to prepare for the March convention. The proposal for such a dialogue had been made by New Unionism, the most moderate of the opposition groups. Esquivel promised to meet with New Unionism and la CNTE; whether or not Democratic Factions would be excluded remains unclear. New Unionism has also called for a change from the union's centralized structure to a more federal structure, reflecting the decentralization of Mexico's educational system since 1992. Toward the end of January, Democratic Fractions accused Esquivel and the union's executive committee of failure to properly convene the national convention. Esquivel denied the charges saying the 3,000 delegates would convene for the March convention as previously announced. The Education Budget One of the teachers' biggest concerns is the education budget. In December the conservative National Action Party (PAN), which had been in opposition, joined the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), in voting for president Zedillo's budget. Based on a fall in petroleum prices and therefore in revenues to the state-owned Mexican Petroleum company (PEMEX), Zedillo presented a reduced education budget, which was passed by the PRI-PAN majority. The center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) criticized the PRI's education budget, saying it would provide for no more than 17.2 percent in wage increases for the SNTE's 1.2 million members. SNTE head Esquivel says that a 17.2 percent wage increase would not recover the teachers' lost purchasing power. ### PRD MAYOR CUAUHTEMOC CARDENAS SURVIVES FIRST DEALINGS WITH PRI UNIONS Mexico City Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) survived his first contest with the city workers' unions controlled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). First in the area of wages, while the Mexican federal government granted workers an increase of only 14 percent in the minimum wage, Cardenas and the city's PRD-dominated Legislative Assembly of the Federal District, Mexico's city council, went further granting city employees an 18 percent wage hike. This wage increase fulfilled Cardenas's promise to raise wages above the level of inflation so that workers could begin, however slowly, to recoup their purchasing power. A study by the Bank of Mexico showed that inflation in the city in 1997 was 15.65 percent, so Cardenas's raise was 2.35 points above inflation. In reality, however, Cardenas's 18 percent wage increase for Mexico City workers is very close to the 17 to 20 percent being granted by other government and private employers. The PRD's wage increase is in fact not very different than the PRI's. The Sole Union of Workers of the Government of the Federal District (SUTGDF) had demanded a 26 percent wage increase for its 100,000 members, almost half of the 220,000 city workers. The SUTGDF forms part of the Federation of Unions of Workers at the Service of the State (FSTSE) affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The SUTGDF's demand for a 26 percent increase was clearly intended to embarrass Cardenas. PRD Attacks Corruption in PRI Union At the same time the PRD is putting pressure on the SUTGDF. Armando Quintero, a PRD leader in the city government, has called for an investigation into the PRI union. He wants to know why all the SUTGDF executive committee members, and all local section committee members received overtime pay without working. He also objects to SUTGDF statutes which require all union members to affiliate with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Other unions have been more supportive of the new Cardenas administration. Benito Bahena, a leader of the small Street Car Workers Union (ATM) and Heron Rosales, a leader of the National Confederation of Workers, a small labor federation, both supported Cardenas, while noting that an 18 percent wage increase would not meet their members' needs. "But at least," said Rosales, "it marks the beginning of a new relationship with the workers." Employers Attack Cardenas for Wage Increase Employers, on the other hand, attacked Cardenas for granting an inflationary wage increase. Jorge Marin Santillan and Armando Araujo, leaders respectively of CONCAMIN and CONCANACO, two of the most important employers' association, condemned the city workers' wage increase as "unilateral and erroneous." Marin Santillan said that history showed that such inflationary wage increases only lead to a more rapid loss of purchasing power in inflationary spirals. Meanwhile Cardenas has made overtures to small business in Mexico City, granting a six-month grace period for the enforcement of all regulations in commercial establishments such as hotels, bars, restaurants, public baths, and beauty salons. Business people will be given six months to regularize their legal status before any inspections are made. At the same time, Cardenas and the PRD will work to reduce small business paperwork to make compliance easier. Cardenas has appealed to lawyers, accountants, engineers and architects to support the authorities when inspections are made in six months so that hygiene and safety measures, such as fire extinguishers and emergency exits are met. Cardenas said the city didn't care about the loss of fines during this six month period, but wanted to encourage a reactivation of the economy. ### VICTOR FLORES EXPELS DISSIDENT RAILROAD WORKERS; NEARLY COMES TO BLOWS WITH OPPOSITION CONGRESSMEN Victor Flores Morales, head of the Mexican Railroad Workers Union (STFRM) nearly came to blows with opposition congressmen and expelled a group of dissident railroad workers from his union last month. Both acts were part of his effort to prevent any political or union opposition to his complete support for the privatization of the Mexican National Railways. As hearings were about to be held on the Mexican railways before the labor commission of the Mexican House of Representatives on January 16, some dissident railroad workers showed up to protest the government's privatization policies. Flores Morales, who in addition to heading the STFRM is also a congressman, also showed up to the session accompanied by a hundred union goons. The presence of the opposing groups of railroad workers led Juan Moises Calleja, a congressman of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, to cancel the session. Meanwhile Flores Morales got into a shouting match with Javier Paz Zarza of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and with Pablo Sandoval Ramirez and Rosalio Hernandez Beltran of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Flores Morales accused the PAN and PRD delegates of interfering in the life of the Railroad Workers Union. Flores Morales and PAN Congressman Paz Zarza had to be separated to prevent them from coming to blows. Paz Zarza accused Flores Morales's goons of threatening to kill him. Expels Dissidents Immediately after leaving the House of Representatives, Flores Morales went straight to STFRM Local 16 to break up a meeting of the "Heroes of Nacozari," a dissident railroad workers' group. Now accompanied by as many as 300 toughs, Flores Morales entered the hall and broke up the meeting. On the spot Flores Morales convened a court made up of several local union general secretaries in his entourage, and expelled from the Railroad Workers Union both Vicente Valencia and Antonio Sanchez, the leaders of the dissident group, and all of their followers. The union dissidents were charged with having distributed propaganda paid for by the PRD. Then, to chants of "Out Traitors!" the union dissidents were driven from the hall. Afterwards, Flores Morales defended the trial and expulsion, saying that the workers had published a leaflet, a manifesto of their views, which is prohibited by the union statutes. In any case, he said, they were only ten workers, some active and some retired, and didn't represent anybody anyway. ### FARM LABORERS RIOT IN SINALOA Some 150 agricultural laborers rioted and destroyed buildings and equipment at the Bon Bustamante packing plant at Estacion Bamoa, Guasave, Sinaloa on January 19. The company employs 4,800 laborers, most of them from the southern states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacan and Hidalgo. The rampaging workers burned a tractor, damaged five trailers, broke windows and destroyed buildings to protest Bon Bustamante's failure to pay them 40 pesos per day as they had been promised. The company had instead been paying them only 35 pesos per day. (Eight pesos=about one U.S. dollar.) From five until nine in the morning the workers armed with metal tubes, iron bars, and stones moved through the packing plant shutting down operations. After bringing production to a halt, they began to demolish the building and vehicles belonging to the company. Then they went through the town shouting and threatening those who got in their way. The workers only agreed to cease their activities when the company accepted Ricardo Armenta Beltran, a congressman of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) as a mediator. Armenta Beltran said the workers wanted their 40 pesos per day plus transportation and medical care. They also demanded that the company stop deducting union dues, because they did not want to belong to the union of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM). The mayor of Guasave, Jaime Saul Leyva Diaz sent 20 patrol cars and 160 police to protect the company and its property. The farm workers broke the windows of at least one police car. ### DINA AUTO WORKERS PREPARE TO STRIKE ON FEB. 6 The 2,000 auto workers employed by the four plants which make up National Diesel or DINA, the Mexican automaker, voted in a general assembly held in late January to strike the company on February 6 if it does not agree to their demands for a 35 percent wage increase. The company has offered only a 17.5 percent wage increase. DINA is demanding changes in 41 clauses of the union contract. Felix Castillo Cuevas, head of the DINA union, considers this an illegal attack on the union contract. The union has held meetings with management mediated by the Secretary of Labor's office in an attempt to reach agreement and avoid a strike. ### METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY WORKERS SETTLE FOR 17 PERCENT WAGE GAIN The Independent Union of Workers of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (SITUAM) voted to accept a wage offer of 17 percent, plus 4 percent in benefits, thus averting a strike at the elite public university. The delegates voted 152 in favor of accepting the offer and 15 against, while 5 abstained. The delegates vote reflected a secret ballot vote of the membership which was overwhelmingly against striking. Several other university unions have also settled for wage gains in the 17 to 20 percent range. ### LABOR FEDERATIONS JOCKEY OVER MAY DAY MARCH The Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) has led the annual May Day march in Mexico City since the 1930s, bringing hundreds of thousands of workers to the Zocalo, the National Plaza, to salute the President as he stood in the balcony of the National Palace. While in some other countries May Day was a day of international labor solidarity, in Mexico it became a day of working class submission to the national state. Then four years ago, CTM leader Fidel Velazquez decided to cancel the May Day march, and independent unions, workers, and the poor took to the streets. For three years the parade has been a glorious independent working class affair. Now the Congress of Labor is considering renewing the practice of leading the May Day parade, and denying the new opposition union federation, the National Union of Workers (UNT) the opportunity to lead the march. At the same time the UNT has said it will ask the May First Inter-Union Coordinating Committee (CIPM) to join sponsoring an independent May Day workers' march. The UNT says it will march for higher wages, better benefits, and improvements in the pensions of retirees. Thus the May Day march takes on new importance as a symbol of the struggle between the old federations controlled by the state-party and the new more independent federations. ### CORRECTION The article, "ECHLIN-ITAPSA WORKERS BEATEN AT AMERICAN BRAKEBLOCK PLANT," in the January 16, 1998 issue of MLNA incorrectly identified the victims and those present on the scene of an attack at Echlin-subsidiary American Brakeblock. The story incorrectly identified ITAPSA worker Oscar Manuel Buendía Valverde as one of the individuals beaten outside the factory. In fact ITPASA van driver Arturo Hernandez Arturo Hernandez was among those beaten. In addition, the article should have described as present eight fired ITAPSA workers along with a STIMAHCS union organizer and two observers. Our apologies for the error. - Editor. ### END MEXICAN LABOR NEWS AND ANALYSIS, VOL. 3, NO. 3, 2 FEBRUARY 98 --WebTV-Mail-1889888441-13020-- From xcruz@webtv.net Tue Feb 3 00:55:20 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 00:55:16 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: [CLR] CANADA TO MEXICO CARAVAN: SUGGESTIONS NEEDED (fwd) --WebTV-Mail-934050049-16701 --WebTV-Mail-934050049-16701 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:26:35 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU Originator: 2000seradc@listserv Sender: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU From: Roberto Calderon To: xcruz@webtv.net Subject: [CLR] CANADA TO MEXICO CARAVAN: SUGGESTIONS NEEDED (fwd) X-Comment: Discussion/Advocacy of Human, Labor & Civil Rights Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 22:16:00 -0800 (PST) From: Campaign for Labor Rights To: clr@igc.org Subject: suggestions needed for caravan Labor Alerts: a service of Campaign for Labor Rights To receive our email labor alerts, send a message to CLR@igc.apc.org Phone: (541) 344-5410 Web site: http://www.compugraph.com/clr Membership/newsletter. Send $35.00 to Campaign for Labor Rights, 1247 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003. Sample newsletter available on request. SUGGESTIONS NEEDED FOR CARAVAN February 2, 1998 In our second strategy paper, dated January 29, we said that there will be a West Coast caravan traveling from the Canadian border to the Mexican border during the week leading up to April 18. At each stop, the caravan will collect old Nike shoes. When the caravan reaches its end, there will be a symbolic ceremony to "dispose of" the shoes. ISSUE: What should we do with all of the shoes we have collected? Some of the alternatives have large problems: * Destroying the shoes, even though they are Nikes, would seem arrogant, in the face of so much poverty at the border. * Giving them away to low-income people would smack of paternalistic charity in an event which is intended to build international solidarity based on mutual respect. One possibility would be to do a shoe return at the Nike store just this side of the border. Please give us your input. What should we do with the Nikes? Ideally, whatever we do with them would accomplish the following: * Make a statement that we value the rights of workers above corporate profits and consumerism. * Show creativity. * Demonstrate respect for the viewpoints of our allies and people we would like to have as allies. * Help to build our movement - within borders and across borders. We are looking forward to hearing from you !!! ************************************************************* "DON'T BUY NIKE, stop sweatshops" bumper stickers are now available. $1.00 each or $8.00 for 10. Add $2.50 per order for shipping and handling. Order from: Labor/Community Alliance P.O. Box 5077 Fresno Ca 93755 clr2@igc.apc.org ************************************************************* --WebTV-Mail-934050049-16701-- From xcruz@webtv.net Tue Feb 3 01:19:12 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 01:18:58 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: CUBA: FIDEL TO JOHN PAUL II, STATEMENT OF WELCOME (fwd) --WebTV-Mail-1912778690-16744 --WebTV-Mail-1912778690-16744 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:28:51 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU Originator: 2000seradc@listserv Sender: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU From: Roberto Calderon To: xcruz@webtv.net Subject: CUBA: FIDEL TO JOHN PAUL II, STATEMENT OF WELCOME (fwd) X-Comment: Discussion/Advocacy of Human, Labor & Civil Rights Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 22:26:58 -0800 From: Bob Prestemon To: "Information and discussion for UUs involved in social action" Subject: An interesting speech. Here is the translation of Castro's address welcoming the Pope to Cuba. It is said to be one of the shortest speeches Castro has ever delivered, yet it manages to describe well the major moral and social issues that confront the world! It is a shame that we seldom hear or read such views expressed by world leaders, but this musty old Commie tells it like it is! Bob Prestemon +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The official translation of Cuban President Fidel Castro's statement of welcome to Pope John Paul II: Holy Father, The land you have just kissed is honored by your presence. You will not find here the peaceful and generous native people who inhabited this island when the first Europeans arrived. Most of the men were annihilated by the exploitation and the enslaved work they could not resist and the women turned into pleasure objects or domestic slaves. There were also those who died by the homicidal swords or victims of unknown diseases brought by the conquerors. Some priests have left tearing testimonies of their protests against such crimes. In the course of centuries, over a million Africans ruthlessly uprooted from their distant lands took the place of the enslaved natives already exterminated. They made a remarkable contribution to the ethnic composition and the origins of our country's present population where the cultures, the beliefs and the blood of all participants in the dramatic history have been mixed. It has been estimated that the conquest and colonization of this hemisphere resulted in the death of 70 million natives and the enslavement of 12 million Africans. Much blood was shed and many injustices perpetrated, a large part of which still remain after centuries of struggle and sacrifices under new forms of domination and exploitation. Under extremely difficult conditions, Cuba was able to constitute a nation. It had to fight alone for its independence with unsurmountable heroism and, exactly 100 years ago, it suffered a real holocaust in the concentration camps where a large part of its population perished, mostly old men, women and children; a crime whose monstrosity is not diminished by the fact that it has been forgotten by humanity's conscience. As a son of Poland and a witness of Oswiecim, you can understand this better than anyone. Today, Holy Father, genocide is attempted again when by hunger, illness and total economic suffocation some try to subdue this people that refuses to accept the dictates and the rule of the mightiest economic, political and military power in history; much more powerful than the old Rome that for centuries had the beasts devour those who refused to abdicate their faith. Like those Christians horribly slandered to justify the crimes, we who are as slandered as they were, we choose a thousand times death rather than abdicate our convictions. The revolution, like the Church, also has many martyrs. Holy Father, we feel the same way you do about many important issues of today's world and we are pleased it is so; in other matters our views are different but we are most respectful of your strong convictions about the ideas you defend. In your long pilgrimage around the world, you have been able to see with your own eyes many injustices, inequalities and poverty; uncultivated lands and landless hungry farmers; unemployment, hunger, illness; lives that could be saved with little money being lost for lack of it; illiteracy, child prostitution, 6-year old children working or begging for alms to survive; shanty towns where hundreds of millions live in unworthy conditions; race and sex discrimination; complete ethnic groups evicted from their lands and abandoned to their fate; xenophobia, contempt for other peoples; cultures which have been, or are currently being, destroyed; underdevelopment and usurious loans, unpayable and uncollectable debts, unfair exchange, outrageous and unproductive financial speculations; an environment being ruthlessly and perhaps helplessly destroyed; an unscrupulous weapons trade with disgusting lucrative intents; wars, violence, massacres; generalized corruption, narcotics, vices and an alienating consumerism imposed on peoples as an ideal model. Mankind has seen its population increase almost fourfold just in this century. There are billions of people suffering hunger and thirst for justice; the list of man's economic and social calamities is endless. I am aware that many of them are cause of permanent and growing concern to the Holy Father. I have been through personal experiences which allow me to appreciate other features of his thinking. I was a student in Catholic schools until I obtained my bachelor's degree. There, I was taught that to be a Jew, a Muslim, a Hinduist, a Buddhist, an animist or a participant of any other religious belief was a terrible evil deserving severe and unmitigated punishment. More than once, even in some of those schools for the wealthy and privileged -- where I was one of them -- I came up with the question of why there were no black children there; until this day, I have not forgotten the unconvincing answers I was given. In later years, the Second Vatican Council convened by Pope John XXIII undertook the analysis of some of these sensitive issues. We are aware of efforts by the Holy Father to preach and practice sentiments of respect for the faithful of other important and influential religions which have expanded through the world. Respect for believers and non-believers alike is a basic principle revolutionary Cubans try to impress upon their fellow citizens. Such principles have been defined and consecrated by our Constitution and our laws. If there have ever been difficulties, the Revolution is not to blame. We entertain the hope that never again, in no school of whatever religion nowhere in the world, an adolescent need ask why there are no black, native, yellow or white children there. Holy Father, I sincerely admire your courageous statements on the events concerning Galileo and the Inquisition's known errors; on the Crusades' bloody episodes and the crimes committed during the conquest of the Americas; also on certain scientific discoveries that today are not contested by anybody but which, in their times, were the target of so many prejudices and anathemas. That certainly required the immense authority you have come to attain within your church. What can we offer you in Cuba? People exposed to less inequalities and a lower number of helpless citizens; less children without schools, less patients without hospitals, and more teachers and physicians per capita than any other country in the world visited by the Holy Father; educated people you can talk to in perfect freedom with the certainty of their talent and their high political culture, their strong convictions and absolute confidence in their ideas; people that will show all due respect and consciousness in listening to you. Another country will not be found better disposed to understand your felicitous idea -- as we understand it and so similar to what we preach -- that the equitable distribution of wealth and solidarity among men and peoples should be globalized. Welcome to Cuba! --WebTV-Mail-1912778690-16744-- From rjohns@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu Tue Feb 3 07:41:37 1998 Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 09:33:42 -0500 From: Rebecca Johns To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Fwd: CUBA: FIDEL TO JOHN PAUL II, STATEMENT OF WELCOME (fwd) Dear Friends: The translation posted by Robert of Castro's speech is, I believe, the official AP one, not the official Cuban one. The main difference in the translations is that the Cuban version uses GENDER NEUTRAL language in all instances, substituting 'peoples'. You can get the official one from the Cuban CP webpage, I think. Sorry I don't have the URL. Rebecca -- "A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man is of his bones. But if you break the nation's nationality, it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. It will listen to no reformer , to no philosopher, and no preacher, until the demand of the nationalist is granted. It will attend to no business, however vital, except the business of unification and liberation." George Bernard Shaw Rebecca A. Johns Assistant Professor Dept. of Geography University of South Florida 140 Seventh Avenue South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 813-553-1556 From nissenb@fiu.edu Wed Feb 4 13:56:26 1998 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:55:08 -0500 () From: Bruce Nissen To: LABOR-RAP@csf.colorado.edu Subject: New Book: Unions and Workplace Reorganization X-X-Sender: nissenb@mailhost.fiu.edu For immediate release New Book Explores the Trends in Workplace Reorganization Ever since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line and the five-dollar day, U.S. employers have had to pay close attention to how the organization of a workplace and relationships between managers and workers affect economic performance. Employers continue to search for ways to harness employees' energy to achieve maximum efficiency and profit. Unions and Workplace Reorganization edited by Bruce Nissen (Wayne State University Press; $22.95 hardcover; pub. date: February 4, 1998) critically reviews trends in workplace reorganization and develops perspectives on how unions should respond to these trends. Wide in scope, the eleven essays in this collection evaluate and react to the AFL-CIO's 1994 policy statement "The New American Workplace: A Labor Perspective," which is included as a chapter in this volume and is treated as the official position of the U.S. labor movement. Presenting divergent viewpoints and analyses, the contributors discuss the main stances debated or adopted by unions struggling with workplace change. Topics include international comparisons, legal issues, practical experiences with the implementation of or resistance to certain programs, experiences in the public sector as well as comparisons between the private and public sectors, and broad ideological and programmatic visions. The very fate of unions in this country may depend on their ability to deal effectively with the challenge of workplace restructuring; thus, Unions and Workplace Reorganization addresses many of the most important issues currently facing the U.S. labor movement. Bruce Nissen is the assistant director at the Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University. He is the author of Fighting for Jobs (State University of New York Press, 1995). He coedited the anthologies Grand Designs (ILR Press, 1993) and Theories of the Labor Movement (Wayne State University Press, 1987), and edited U.S. Labor Relations 1945-1989 (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990). To order a copy of Unions and Workplace Reorganization, please visit your local bookstore or call 1-800-WSU-READ. ### Alison Reeves Marketing Manager Wayne State University Press The Leonard N. Simons Bldg. 4809 Woodward Avenue Detroit, MI 48201-1309 Tel: (313) 577-4603 Fax: (313) 577-6131 E-Mail: alison.reeves@wayne.edu From Urthman@aol.com Wed Feb 4 14:37:12 1998 From: Urthman@aol.com by imo13.mx.aol.com (IMOv12/Dec1997) id SEYBa27714 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:37:01 EST To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Letter of Support for Locked Out Crown workers (forwarded message) Re: Letter of Support for Locked Out Crown workers Date: 98-02-04 15:11:57 EST From: nicwj@igc.apc.org (National Interfaith Committee) Friends, Attached is an open letter to Mr. Henry Rosenberg, CEO of Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, whose company locked out their refinery workers during contract negotiations two years ago. On Wednesday, February 11, 1998, Baltimore religious leaders and representatives of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice will be paying Mr. Rosenberg a visit -- to deliver the messages from the people across the country who have signed on to this open letter and to ask him to end the lockout. If you haven't already signed on to this letter, we urge you to do so right away. Please email your name back to us at nicwj@igc.org or call me at (773) 381-2832 and we can add you to the list. If you would like to circulate this to others, please circulate it as quickly as possible. The more names this delegation can deliver, the better. Thank you for your quick response. Please give me a call if you would like more details about the situation. You can also refer to the December issue of Faith Works. ************************************* Open Letter to Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. CEO of Crown Central Petroleum Corporation Dear Mr. Rosenberg, As people of faith, we are deeply concerned about the ongoing lockout of 250 workers at the Crown Pasadena refinery in Houston. This lockout has persisted since February 1996, when the company and the union failed to reach an agreement. Crown workers have been members of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union for 45 years. We understand that just a few years ago, workers considered Crown a model place to work. Now, the workers are locked out and the AFL-CIO has called a national boycott of all Crown products. Management and union employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the company for discriminatory practices, and citizens around Crown's Pasadena refinery have sued the company for health and property damages. The dispute, has escalated over the two years, with few signs of reconciliation. All of our faith traditions support the rights of workers to be treated with justice and dignity. Most faith traditions firmly oppose organized efforts to break existing unions. Locking out workers is unjustifiable in contract negotiations. We call on the company to end the lockout and to address the issues of discrimination and environmental pollution. Finally, we urge you to take steps to reach a fair agreement with union representing the workers. With peace and justice, Full Name (please include title): Organization/Congregation: Address: City/ST/Zip: Phone: Fax: email: Please return to nicwj@igc.org National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice 1607 W. Howard St., Suite 218 Chicago, IL 60626 (773) 381-2832 phone * (773 381-3345 fax www.igc.org/nicwj From xcruz@webtv.net Thu Feb 5 23:21:28 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:21:23 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: Fw: Neptune Jade Lawsuits/Support Actions (fwd) --WebTV-Mail-1719341791-3695 --WebTV-Mail-1719341791-3695 Approved-By: "Nathan Newman (by way of Michael Eisenscher )" Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:39:54 -0800 Reply-To: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement Sender: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement From: "Nathan Newman (by way of Michael Eisenscher )" Subject: Fw: Neptune Jade Lawsuits/Support Actions (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 13:49:34 -0800 From: Nathan Newman To: OIFAC@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU ; dwlabor@netcom.com Date: Thursday, February 05, 1998 12:35 PM Subject: Neptune Jade Lawsuits/Support Actions lines) ------------------ While the legal process grinds on,in addition to the February 26 demonstration at Pacific Maritime Association's Oakland HQ (500-12th Street, 8 a.m.), a supporter of free speech and workers' rights came up with this idea: Send a letter to PMA asking to be named as a defendant because we would have been at the demonstration if we had known about it! A proposed draft follows. It can be downloaded, the top clipped off, and mailed, or E-mailed to . Thanks in advance for your solidarity, Albert Lannon, Chair, Laney College Labor Studies/Acting Chair, SFSU Labor Studies. SO SUE ME !! Mr. Joseph Miniace, President Pacific Maritime Association 550 California Street San Francisco, CA 94104 Dear Sir: I have been following the news about your law suit against the Laney College Labor Studies Club, and other organizations and individuals engaged in peaceful, legal demonstrations, with alarm. I am surprised that you would attack Constitutional rights of free speech and free assembly. I am shocked that your lawyers are demanding that a college "name names" of its its students so they can be sued, a demand reminiscent of the dark days of McCarthyism. Please be advised that if I had known about the demonstrations in support of fired Liverpool dockers at the S.S. Neptune Jade, I would have been there. I was certainly there in spirit. Therefore I insist that you add my name as a defendant. Please sue all of us who support free speech, academic freedom, and workers' rights. You will not find a courtroom large enough to hold us all. Sincerely, --WebTV-Mail-1719341791-3695-- From xcruz@webtv.net Fri Feb 6 01:04:47 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 01:04:41 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: Sweeney Attends Davos Elite Confab; CA Overtime Repeal's Heavy Impact; Las Vegas Strike Over --WebTV-Mail-840721540-5291 --WebTV-Mail-840721540-5291 Approved-By: Michael Eisenscher Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:05:37 -0800 Reply-To: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement Sender: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Sweeney Attends Davos Elite Confab; CA Overtime Repeal's Heavy Impact; Las Vegas Strike Over February 5, 1998 U.S. Labor Leader Hobnobs in Europe By LOUIS UCHITELLE DAVOS, Switzerland -- The chief executives lunching with John Sweeney, the American labor leader, seemed almost to be seeking his blessing. A Frenchman tried to get him to criticize the French government's plan to shorten the workweek. A Canadian sought his approval of bonuses and profit-sharing for workers, rather than wage increases. And an American tried to get Sweeney's consent to the proposition that Mexican wages will rise. Like a water buffalo at a gathering of elephants, Sweeney, the president of the AFL-CIO, was an unusual sight at the annual World Economic Forum, which ended here Wednesday. This is a gathering of several heads of state and hundreds of top government officials, corporate chiefs, financiers, academics and bankers who network, lobby, make deals and talk over the ills of the global economy. Until recently, union leaders were seldom invited, and this time only six were present, the five others from Europe. Sweeney, who first attended last year, is the only union official ever to come from the United States in the forum's 27 years. Like everyone else, he wandered the crowded halls of the conference center, greeting people like Donald Fites, chairman of Caterpillar Inc., as if that company had never gone through a horrendous, still unresolved union battle. Or he agreed to have a cup of coffee with a chief executive in a hotel coffee shop, a short walk or shuttle-bus ride along the snowy main street of Davos. "In this atmosphere," Sweeney said, "you can chat with chief executives and world leaders so easily in ways that I cannot do back home." His message was short, focused, direct and repeated, like a politician's stump speech. The global economy and free trade are here, a fait accompli, acknowledged by labor, Sweeney said. Job-shifting across borders to lower-wage labor cannot be entirely stopped. Nor can damage to workers from crises like the current one in Asia. But national labor movements must come together to insist on minimum international labor standards and a seat at the table when the International Monetary Fund negotiates bailout agreements that fall hardest on workers. "We will demand coordinated efforts to stimulate growth, to regulate currency and capital speculation, to extend labor and democratic rights as part of the response to the Asian collapse," Sweeney declared. He made this case on Saturday from a podium that he shared with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazil's president, and George Soros, the financier. The audience of several hundred responded with warm applause to the presentations of Cardoso and Soros. Their view generally was that strong economic growth would raise worker incomes. Sweeney, taking a different tack, drew no applause. "I got good feedback later," he said. "People here don't want to publicly applaud labor." House Speaker Newt Gingrich made Sweeney a target in one of his presentations, charging that he was out of date, a throwback to labor movement thinking in the 1930s at a moment when the issues have changed. "He just does not get it," Sweeney said. "We are not opposed to trade agreements, but they have to be done properly, and not leave out workers." Whatever the frictions, the organizers of the World Economic Forum say they will add to the rostrum of labor leaders next year. "I had made an attempt before to invite more labor leaders," said Klaus Schwab, the forum's president. "But unlike business leaders, you did not find many labor leaders who thought globally. And I did not want Davos misused as a forum for national disputes." Schwab is also responding to another concern of the business executives and government officials who are the backbone of these annual conferences. A frequently expressed worry at the forum was the potential for strikes, demonstrations and violence, particularly in Indonesia, as workers react to the damage from the Asian crisis. "I think everyone is very concerned with the second wave of the Asian crisis," Schwab said. "The first was financial and the second is going to be social and political." At a luncheon on Monday given by the labor leaders, the half-dozen executives at Sweeney's table sought his sympathy or at least his informal counsel for their labor problems back home. Roger Cukierman, chairman of the Compagnie Financiere Edmond de Rothschild Banque, in Paris, asked Sweeney if he favored the French plan to cut the workweek to 35 hours from 39, with no cut in pay. Sweeney said he did, to Cukierman's disappointment, but on a softer note, he agreed with the banker that the shorter week would not prompt French employers to hire more workers, which is the goal. Instead, they will probably fill the extra hours on overtime, the two men agreed. Predictably, Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement came up. "What people in Mexico tell us is that as productivity rises, they will pay higher wages," said Steven Kletjian, chairman of Unicco Service Co. in the United States, which takes over operations that corporations outsource. Kletjian's comment brought a standard Sweeney reaction. "From the data we have now," Sweeney said, "we know that while NAFTA created some jobs in the United States, they are mostly low wage. In Mexico, the new jobs are the lowest of the low." Brian Smith got the answer he sought. He is chairman of the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, a government-owned electric power utility, with 6,000 unionized employees. He is trying to convince his workers that they should accept profit-sharing and bonuses, rather than fixed wage increases. "That is happening more and more," Sweeney said, "not only profit-sharing but stock distribution." And Smith beamed. Will he quote Sweeney in his continuing conversations with his workers? "Definitely," he said. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company ============================= Thursday, February 5, 1998 Overtime Law Repeal Hits Some Doubly By STUART SILVERSTEIN, Times Staff Writer Delivery driver Gerald Hackler often works long, hard days carting explosives to dusty construction sites and rock quarries, sometimes staying on the job up to 16 hours. Still, the payoff has been sweet. Along with bringing home plenty of regular time-and-a-half overtime pay, Hackler has gotten a double-time premium for the days when he puts in more than 12 hours. But no more. A relatively unheralded provision in the Jan. 1 repeal of California's daily overtime rules lifted the obligation on many employers to pay thousands of workers double their normal rate when they put in more than 12 hours in a single day. It also scrapped double time that was required, in certain circumstances, for hourly employees who came in all seven days in a given workweek. The result--that some workers are putting in the same long hours they did last year but receiving less money--"is a recipe for a lot of poor morale," said Steve Mardon, editor of ShiftWork Alert, a monthly newsletter focusing on work-related fatigue and safety issues. Those affected include drivers, manufacturing workers, technicians, restaurant employees and others accustomed to earning double-time pay in exchange for prolonged hours on the job. By one rough estimate, the double-time change could, in any given week, affect 1% of working Californians, or about 150,000 people. As more employers learn about the regulatory reform allowing elimination of double-time pay, frictions are developing in workplaces scattered around the state. One manager who asked not to be identified, the head of human resources at a San Diego-area aerospace firm that has eliminated double-time pay in most cases, acknowledged that employees "feel like they're losing out on some extra bucks that they earn on hard, long shifts." Still, he said, the company won't restore the double-time premium to the workers who lost it. It's important for the company to "lower costs a bit," he said. When the since-disbanded California Industrial Welfare Commission voted last year to kill the daily overtime rules governing many of the state's big industries, the issue of double-time pay was largely overlooked. Most of the focus was on scuttling the long-standing mandate for employers to pay hourly workers, including part-timers, time-and-one-half overtime wages whenever they put in more than eight hours in a day. Although organized labor and part-time employees opposed the move, many employer groups and ordinary Californians say the change is giving more full-time workers a chance to have flexible schedules. At the same time, while everyone agrees that some part-timers who put in long days are losing money, supporters of the daily overtime repeal say that it is costing full-time workers little, if anything, in wages. That's because the 8 million hourly workers at job sites subject to the repeal still qualify for regular overtime pay as long as they put in more than 40 hours in a given week, as provided by federal law. But that's scant consolation for Hackler and other workers like him. Hackler, who lives in an unincorporated area of Butte County in Northern California, said he earned about $40,000 last year. With the elimination of double time, he expects to lose $3,000 to $4,000 a year. The repeal of the daily overtime and double time, Hackler said, is intended to benefit 40-hour-a-week office workers who want to, for example, leave a couple of hours early one day and make up the time on another day. Those workers, he said, "don't seem to have the strains and responsibilities that we have. . . . We don't even know what it's like to work just 40 hours a week." "There's nothing I do or my co-workers do that doesn't revolve around work," said Hackler, 37, who has a 17-year-old son. "We have to work the hours we work just to make ends meet. If work comes up, you have to take it." What's more, Hackler said, because employers around the state are taking advantage of the overtime and double-time pay repeal to cut wages, he doesn't regard changing jobs as a realistic option. That is especially so, he said, because he lives in a rural area with limited job possibilities. His wife, Mary, works at the same company as a part-time driver. Also feeling the pinch of lost double time is Mary Piowaty, a part-time respiratory therapist at Lassen Community Hospital in Susanville, about 90 miles northwest of Reno. Piowaty, 44, is normally scheduled for two 12-hour days every week. She never earned straight overtime for her scheduled hours because of a waiver received by the hospital under an agreement reached with employees to promote flexible schedules. Yet Piowaty used to earn ample double time because the hospital frequently called her back to work beyond her scheduled hours, time that wasn't covered by the waiver. One day in December, for example, she put in 20 hours, which meant she received eight hours of double-time pay. But now, taking advantage of the state's daily overtime repeal, the hospital is no longer paying double time. Piowaty said the gross pay on her first check after double time was eliminated, covering a two-week period, was $66 less than it would have been last year. "I see it as losing my grocery money," she said. "I have four children at home." But like other employers who in the past paid double time, David Anderson, the administrator of Lassen Community Hospital, said it sometimes is too much of a cost to bear in a competitive business world. Anderson said his facility faces increasing cost-containment pressures, particularly from the federal government. "We need to minimize salary and benefit costs to the extent we're able to within the law," he said, while adding that Lassen has budgeted 3% raises for 1998. Anderson said the hospital's financial condition "is good, and we want to maintain that." Various studies, while not yet conclusive, suggest that workers who put in lots of overtime face enormous strains. One study has found higher suicide rates among people who frequently work overtime. Separate research detected lower birth weights among babies whose mothers often put in overtime. In addition, a review of construction managers who worked overtime found that they had higher levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, factors linked to cardiovascular disease. In the entertainment industry, unions launched a push last year for a 14-hour limit on the workday. It began after an assistant camera operator, Brent Hershman of West Hills, died in a car crash while driving home after 19 hours on the job. Most employers, in fact, don't put workers on long shifts or extensive overtime because they consider it counterproductive. "It just doesn't make sense to work people beyond 12 hours. It becomes a safety issue," said Anita Gorino, a human resources consultant in Thousand Oaks. She added, "People get tired, and they're just not as productive." On the other hand, for many of the workers who have shouldered the burden of long hours, double-time pay has provided some relief, but that's now changing. Surveys by two California business organizations--the Professionals in Human Resources Assn. and the Employers Group--show that the vast majority of the state's employers plan to take advantage of the repeal. Squabbling over the end of double time could get more heated in California as union contracts come up for renegotiation in the state. Tom Rankin, president of the California Labor Federation, predicted that more and more employers will say that "our nonunion competition no longer has to pay daily overtime and double time, and we don't want to either." In the past, when unions agreed to waive double-time requirements, Rankin said, they normally extracted some other protection against excessive overtime. The old rules, he said, "provided a floor for bargaining, but now the floor is gone." Copyright Los Angeles Times ======================== February 5, 1998 At Hotel-Casino, Triumphant Shouts of 'Union!' By SARA MOSLE LAS VEGAS -- Joseph Daugherty is thinking about taking a vacation. As an organizer for the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas, he has not taken a day off since Sept. 21, 1991, when 550 workers -- maids, cocktail waitresses, bartenders, cooks -- walked off their jobs at the Frontier hotel and casino to protest the resort's treatment of its employees. "I used to tell my family on the East Coast that I'd see them when the strike was over," he said with a rueful smile. He did not realize that the walkout, the nation's longest in almost four decades, would end up lasting nearly six and a half years. A minute after midnight Sunday, the strike finally ended as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Richard Trumka led returning workers, national labor leaders, local politicians, union members and some 2,000 other revelers on a triumphant march around the craps and black jack tables, their shouts of "union" drowning out the tintinnabulation of the slot machines. Strikers wept and hugged, but many looked dazed as they wandered through a place that was both intimately familiar and strange after so long. Raymond Turner, who had worked as a cook at the Frontier for 25 years before walking out, said, "I guess it looks the same, but it hasn't sunk in yet." Like soldiers who recall their years of service with fondness, many strikers admitted to an unexpected emotion: they were going to miss the picket line. Mirna Preciado, who was returning to her job as a waitress at the Frontier's Mexican restaurant that morning, said: "I'm glad we won, but I'm sad, too. I'm going to miss my friends." During the strike, children graduated from their strollers to walk with their mothers on the picket line. Couples met and married. Seventeen strikers also died during the course of the walk-out. "We are like family," Ms. Preciado said. Strikers had vowed to hold out "one day longer" than the Elardis, the Las Vegas family that bought the Frontier from Summa Corp. in 1989 and began taking actions like dismissing workers without cause, reducing wages and refusing to contribute to the pension fund. In September 1995, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in San Francisco, upheld dozens of charges of violation of labor law. In an uncommon display of solidarity, strikers walked the picket line around the clock for six years, four months and 10 days. Not a single striker crossed back over the picket line, and union members voted to double their dues to support a strike fund. Picketers credited Daugherty for helping to sustain morale. Motorists would sometimes pelt them with rocks, eggs, ice-cream and even a dead rabbit that was shot. Occasionally, resort workers would spray the picketers with water hoses usually reserved for cleaning the parking lot. And then there were the 120-degree summers and wintry cold nights. "Joe was our glue," Ms. Preciado said. "We called him Saint Joe." John Wilhelm, secretary-treasurer of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International, said, "In my 28 years in labor, I have never met a more extraordinary leader than Joe." Whenever union conventions were held here, members would join the picket line. Postal workers, teachers and state, county and municipal employees all marched with the strikers. A local doctor, Elias Ghanem, provided free medical service -- delivering 107 babies to their families. Even management at other hotel-casinos sympathized with the workers. William Bennett, then the head of Circus Circus and now the owner of the Sahara became so distressed with the strikers' plight that he provided three hot meals a day for more than five years at an estimated cost of $1 million. Last fall, Phillip Ruffin, a Midwestern businessman, ended the standoff when he bought the Frontier for $167 million and agreed to sign a union contract and take back the employees with their seniority and pensions intact. (About 100 replacement workers lost their jobs.) Last week, Ruffin revealed that the strike had cut the Elardis' business in half, even though the economy was booming. The Elardis had argued that they could not make a profit if they paid union wages, but nearly every other major hotel and casino on the Strip was a union shop at the time. For labor leaders, the victory was sweet. "This strike is the most significant victory in American labor since the early CIO days and Walter Reuther," said Gerald McEntee, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. And many other leaders have begun to point to Las Vegas as a model for organized labor. AFL-CIO president John Sweeney has called Las Vegas "the hottest union city in America." In recent years, the Strip has been the scene of demonstrations reminiscent of the 1930s as thousands of workers, even tens of thousands, have taken to the streets to fight for better wages and benefits. In the last 15 years, the Culinary Union has more than doubled its ranks, to over 40,000 members. Las Vegas is the fastest growing city in the country, and the union is the fastest growing local in the private sector. As Wilhelm of the hotel-restaurant union put it, service workers' jobs cannot be shipped overseas. He says Las Vegas' prosperity depends in large part on the union contract. For his part, Daugherty, the organizer, said he might not take the vacation, after all. "In labor," he said, "there's a saying that a union is only as strong as its next strike." Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company =================================== --WebTV-Mail-840721540-5291-- From xcruz@webtv.net Fri Feb 6 13:37:27 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:37:23 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: Han Young: troubling signs (fwd) --WebTV-Mail-624798504-2983 --WebTV-Mail-624798504-2983 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 08:13:55 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: dnathan@utep.edu Sender: owner-FRONTERA-L@cornell.edu From: Debbie Nathan To: frontera-L@cornell.edu Subject: Han Young: troubling signs (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:51:06 -0800 (PST) From: Campaign for Labor Rights To: clr@igc.org Subject: Han Young: troubling signs Labor Alerts: a service of Campaign for Labor Rights To receive our email labor alerts, send a message to CLR@igc.apc.org Phone: (541) 344-5410 Web site: http://www.compugraph.com/clr Membership/newsletter. Send $35.00 to Campaign for Labor Rights, 1247 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003. Sample newsletter available on request. [Information provided by the Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, who ask that activists seeking updates contact Campaign for Labor Rights: (541) 344-5410, ] HAN YOUNG: February 5, 1998 In this alert: Troubling signs but little firm news. Please continue with plans for February 7 demonstrations. See suggested leaflet text, below. UPDATE: In the past week, there has been a serious escalation of repressive intimidation directed at the Han Young workers and their supporters. Mary Tong of the Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers has spent almost every minute in Tijuana, dealing with that situation, and has not been available for reports to our office here at Campaign for Labor Rights. As soon as we receive more information, we will post it. Meanwhile, the NAO hearing on labor rights violations at Han Young is still scheduled for February 18. Please move forward with your plans for demonstrations of solidarity on Saturday, February 7. SUGGESTED LEAFLET TEXT [Note: The signature/address/phone information at the bottom of the suggested leaflet is for your local organizing purposes. You do not need to send it to us.] WE SUPPORT JUSTICE FOR MEXICAN WORKERS! The workers at a small factory near Tijuana are bucking the Mexican power structure in their bid to be represented by a real union. This is the first case in which workers have openly challenged the government-controlled "unions" and have succeeded in winning certification for an independent union. The Han Young workers need - and deserve! - our support as they face continuing intimidation, resistance and dirty tricks from management and government officials. The precedent being set at Han Young is an inspiration to workers at other factories in the Tijuana area - and throughout the border region. Corporations race to move their operations to Mexico, in search of low wages and no protection for workers or the environment. With the support of human rights advocates all across the United States and in many other countries, the Han Young workers are proving that we are not powerless under the rule of the global sweatshop. CONDITIONS: Han Young workers assemble chassis for tractor trailers, without even the most basic protective equipment while doing arc welding. Outmoded cranes swing out of control without warning while moving tons of metal. In this dangerous and unhealthy situation, most workers make less than 50 cents an hour - hardly enough to support their families. GOVERNMENT UNIONS: The leaders of the government-controlled union at Han Young and other factories were not elected. They negotiate "protection contracts" with management in secret. They show up at the factory only to collect pay-offs. TWO ELECTIONS: In October, the Han Young workers voted overwhelmingly to be represented by an independent union, soundly defeating a busload of phony "workers" whom the Tijuana labor board allowed to vote. Later, the labor board refused to certify the election results. In December, a majority of the workers again voted for an independent union, even though management offered large bribes to any worker who would vote for a government union. Management and government officials also tried to overturn the results of this second election. INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT: Throughout all of this struggle, unions and human rights advocates around the world have stood with the Han Young workers. Concerned citizens in more than 25 U.S. cities have demonstrated in support of these workers' rights. We are here today to show our continuing support. THE CURRENT SITUATION: In January, continuing international support and the unbreakable unity of the Han Young workers forced the Mexican government to broker an agreement guaranteeing the right of the workers to have the union of their choice. Since then, while the outlook is much more hopeful, management still has not sat down to bargain a contract with the workers. Also, recently, there have been serious threats against union organizers. Because of the human rights crisis in Mexico, such threats are not taken lightly. YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED: Until the Han Young workers have a bargained contract, we need to show that they still have our support. Please take a moment to sign the statement below. STATEMENT OF SUPPORT: I support the right of the Han Young workers to be represented by the union of their choice. Threats against these workers should stop immediately and management should bargain a contract with them in good faith. Name: ________________________________________ Call me or send me a notice by mail when there are local activities in support of the rights of sweatshop workers. Street Address: _________________________________ City/State/Zip: __________________________________ Phone: ________________________________________ This demonstration is part of a national day of action in support of the rights of the Han Young workers. National organizers are the Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, based in San Diego, and Campaign for Labor Rights, based in Washington, DC. Locally, this event was organized by [your organization's name and contact information]. --WebTV-Mail-624798504-2983-- From xcruz@webtv.net Fri Feb 6 14:43:18 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 14:43:14 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: RIVERSIDE, CA: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES CANDLELIGHT MARCH & VIGIL --WebTV-Mail-255860798-1742 --WebTV-Mail-255860798-1742 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:23:43 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU Originator: 2000seradc@listserv Sender: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU From: Roberto Calderon To: xcruz@webtv.net Subject: RIVERSIDE, CA: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES CANDLELIGHT MARCH & VIGIL X-Comment: Discussion/Advocacy of Human, Labor & Civil Rights Join Public Employees in a Funeral March: CANDLELIGHT MARCH & VIGIL! the PROPOSED CUTS by the CITY and COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE! Help bury unacceptable contract proposals! Wear black to show your anger at our employers' disregard for employees and the public. Public Employees Are Fighting Back on Behalf of: Children who need Protection with Social Services! Residents who need acces to public libraries! Families who can enjoy the parks services for social & recreational activities! Patients who need safe and affordable health care! MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS: D.O.A./R.I.P. WHEN & WHERE Tuesday, February 10th at 6:00 p.m. COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER 4080 Lemon (Lemon & 10th) Short March Through Downtown Riverside Culminating in a Rally at City Hall ========================================= The City and County of Riverside can be compared to corporate monsters like Columbia Health Care. Contracting out, low wages, and disrespect to employees have all been trademarks of this City and County's labor history. But public employees are fighting back! Support them in their effort for basic rights and respect! ========================================= PERC & SEIU 4336 Market Street Riverside, CA 92502 PH: 909-686-7372 FAX: 909-684-2134 Hotline: 909-686-7372 Ext. 234 --WebTV-Mail-255860798-1742-- From xcruz@webtv.net Fri Feb 6 16:48:14 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:48:09 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: [CLR] TIJUANA, BCN: HAN YOUNG UNION BUSTING (fwd) --WebTV-Mail-1727680734-3831 --WebTV-Mail-1727680734-3831 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 15:39:44 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU Originator: 2000seradc@listserv Sender: 2000seradc@galaxy.UCR.EDU From: Roberto Calderon To: xcruz@webtv.net Subject: [CLR] TIJUANA, BCN: HAN YOUNG UNION BUSTING (fwd) X-Comment: Discussion/Advocacy of Human, Labor & Civil Rights Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 14:55:37 -0800 (PST) From: Campaign for Labor Rights To: clr@igc.org Subject: Han Young union busting Labor Alerts: a service of Campaign for Labor Rights To receive our email labor alerts, send a message to CLR@igc.apc.org Phone: (541) 344-5410 Web site: http://www.compugraph.com/clr Membership/newsletter. Send $35.00 to Campaign for Labor Rights, 1247 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003. Sample newsletter available on request. [Information provided by the Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, who ask that activists seeking updates contact Campaign for Labor Rights: (541)344-5410, ] HAN YOUNG UNION-BUSTING TACTICS February 6, 1998 After Hyundai-facilitated talks last week between Han Young management and representatives of the workers, Han Young began a new, escalated campaign to break the independent union. The CROC representative who installed himself as human resources director at Han Young has been stepping up pressure against STIMAHCS supporters. If STIMAHCS supporters show up half a minute late, they are suspended for three days. STIMAHCS supporters are not allowed to take breaks, even to use the bathroom. However, the human resources director allows CROC supporters to come late, leave early and take breaks without any penalties whatsoever. Han Young has been offering a wage increase of 15 pesos a day (approximately $1 U.S., approximately $1.40 Canadian) to any workers who agree to sign a paper naming the CROC (one of the government-controlled unions) as their representative. Keep in mind, that most of these workers receive a daily wage equivalent to about $4 U.S. or $5.70 Canadian. So, this illegal bribe would constitute a very substantial increase in their daily wages. Because the Han Young workers are so united in their demand to be represented by an independent union, the bribe has not been effective in undermining the majority support for STIMAHCS. Therefore, management has put 20 new "workers" on the books as CROC supporters. These phantom employees are not doing work at the plant. Furthermore, reliable sources have indicated that the company has sent a representative to Vera Cruz to hire another 40 replacement workers, to build up a pro-CROC workforce (phantom or otherwise) to outvote the union supporters at the plant. Also, there have been about 15 CROC supporters hired by the CROC human resources manager; although these employees actually work in the plant, they are allowed to come and go at will, taking leaves of absence whenever they wish. Two workers have been denied bonuses given to other workers. These two were explicitly told that they were being punished for supporting STIMAHCS. There are numerous other illegal wage irregularities being used against other STIMAHCS supporters. There are growing concerns about health and safety at the plant. This is especially true since the recent torrential rains in the region. Workers are standing in pools of water using faulty electrical equipment held together with tape. STIMAHCS supporters cannot get new safety equipment (gloves, masks, etc.) but such equipment is readily available to CROC supporters. Last week, one of the faulty cranes at the plant dropped part of a chassis on a worker's hand, injuring him. The lawyer for Han Young (who also for many years has had strong links with the CROC and the CTM government unions) has been extremely hostile since the talks began last week. The company has failed to follow up on its promises to resume talks this week. The workers are now examining various legal avenues to take in response to the company's violations of the Mexican labor code, the January 14 agreements and the existing contract. There also are concerns about a generally more repressive stance being taken some elements in the Mexican government. Given the human rights crisis in Mexico - which includes increasing violence and illegalities - such threatening moves are viewed with grave concern. It is crucial for human rights advocates to show their continuing support for the Han Young workers. Please move forward with your plans for demonstrations on Saturday, February 7. The Mexican government needs to know that any repression against these workers will cost Mexico substantial damage to its international reputation. The NAO complaint (the process established under NAFTA's labor side agreement) is still scheduled for February 18. The workers continue to make their own strategy decisions. They are strong, united and clear about what they want. The role of the Support Committee for Maquiladora workers is to stay informed about the situation and the find out what the workers want from international solidarity and then to take that information to the workers' international supporters. PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR PLANS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE HAN YOUNG WORKERS. If you cannot organize a demonstration by February 7, please try to plan demonstrations of support for another date - at your earliest convenience. Please continue to send faxes to the Han Young lawyer, as indicated in previous alerts. [Note: Many people do not have access to a fax machine. Also, many labor rights violations are crises requiring an immediate reaction. To find out how to subscribe to the Labor Defense Network (which will send faxes in your name in response to violations of workers' rights in Mexico and Central America), contact (202)544-9355 or .] It is important now for the Mexican federal government to continue its intervention. The first need is for the government to see to it that the CROC representative is removed from his position as human resources director at Han Young. His presence there is in violation of the January 14 agreements, which stipulated that the CROC and the CTM were to cease all interference at the factory. Local activists: please include that message in any statements you make to the press. Also, if there is a Mexican consulate in your community, please deliver a letter on Monday asking for a resumption of Mexican federal intervention at Han Young, especially to have the CROC rep removed from his position at the plant. --WebTV-Mail-1727680734-3831-- From Herejobs@aol.com Mon Feb 9 20:33:00 1998 From: Herejobs@aol.com by imo27.mx.aol.com (IMOv12/Dec1997) id NCSUa12997 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:28:55 EST To: Herejobs@aol.com Subject: No Subject Dear Friends, I would like to post recent news on several successful campaigns of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union (HERE), along with current job openings with HERE on these and other campaigns. We appreciate your posting and circulating this information. Circulating our job announcements has really helped attract excellent applicants in the past ---thanks! Pat Lamborn, HERE International Union **************************************************************************** JOB OPENINGS ORGANIZERS: CONNECTICUT HERE is seeking organizers for Local 34, the Clerical/Technical Union at Yale University and for Local 217, a statewide hotel and gaming local in Connecticut. Must have the commitment to organizing the unorganized and demonstrated ability to develop and recruit leaders in internal and external organizing drives. Salary depends on experience and includes complete benefit package. Send Resume to East Coast HERE Recruiter: Ellen Thomson, P.O. Box 322, Granby, CT 06035, FAX (860)251-6049. ORGANIZERS: BILINGUAL - NATIONWIDE HERE, is also seeking organizers bilingual in Spanish/English for organizing campaigns in California (Oakland and Los Angeles), Washington D.C. and Hartford, CT. HERE seeks an organizer bilingual in Haitian Creole/ English for Stamford, CT. HERE has an excellent training and leadership development program for both staff and members, entry level and experienced organizers encouraged to apply. Salary depends on experience and includes benefit package. For East Coast Positions Send Resume to: Ellen Thomson, HERE, P.O. Box 322, Granby, CT 06035 FAX: (860)251-6049. For West Coast Positions Send Resume to: Pat Lamborn, HERE , 548 20th St. Oakland, CA 94612, FAX (510)893-5362 RESEARCH ANALYSTS: NATIONWIDE HERE is also recruiting campaign research staff for positions in CONNECTICUT, BOSTON, LOS ANGELES, LAS VEGAS, WASHINGTON DC and the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and hires researchers elsewhere occasionally. Staff in HERE's growing Research Department conduct in-depth investigations of companies and develop and implement strategic campaigns for organizing in the hotel, food service, and gaming industries. Ideal candidates will have activist experience: demonstrated research skills; excellent writing and speaking ability; familiarity with basic financial concepts; and ability to work in a team environment. Salary negotiable on the basis of experience; excellent benefits. Send resume and cover letter to: Recruitment, HERE Research Department, 1219 28th St., NW, Washington, DC 20007-3389, FAX: (202)333-6049. *****************************************************************************C AMPAIGN UPDATES !!! HERE ORGANIZING AND STRIKE VICTORIES IN RECENT WEEKS. JAN. 12, 1998: ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Workers on the Admiral President Riverboat Casino chose to join HERE Local 74 by a 171-103 in an NLRB Election. HERE has organized and won contracts for three Illinois Riverboats and all four Northern Indiana riverboats. JAN. 20,1998, NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT HERE International Union launched an organizing effort among the 12,000 casino workers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, the most profitable casino in the Western Hemisphere which is owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Indians. Initial surveys and interviews indicate that workers are concerned about cutbacks in raises and bonuses, co-payments on the company health plan and poor air quality resulting in the "Foxwoods Flu". An organizing victory here would be a first for tribal casinos nationwide. JAN. 31, 1998: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA At the stroke of midnight, 258 strikers returned to their jobs at the Frontier Hotel--after seven years on the picket line -- winning the longest running strike in present day labor history. During the strike, HERE Local 226 organized 20,000 new hotel-casino workers in Las Vegas, including those at the MGM Grand Hotel, which signed a first contract in November 1997. JAN. 22, 1998, NEW ORLEANS , LA HERE Local 166 won an organizing victory with a 237-75 NLRB vote for the union in a unit of 450 ARAMARK employees at the New Orleans Convention Center. Another election is scheduled for Feb. 6-7 in a similar sized unit of ARAMARK employees at the Superdome. The union's campaign has featured extensive house visiting, with up to 70 people making house calls. FEB. 4, 1998, NEW YORK CITY HERE Local 100 announced an important, milestone victory at the Box Tree Restaurant -Hotel where the workers have been on strike for a first contract since 1993. The union has negotiated a strong contract including employer paid health insurance for all employees working 25 or more hours per week. From aanz@sirius.com Mon Feb 9 23:10:59 1998 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:14:36 -0800 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: aanz@sirius.com (anzalone/starbird) Subject: Re: Letter of Support for Locked Out Crown workers (forwarded message) >Re: Letter of Support for Locked Out Crown workers >Date: 98-02-04 15:11:57 EST >From: nicwj@igc.apc.org (National Interfaith Committee) > > >Friends, > >Attached is an open letter to Mr. Henry Rosenberg, CEO of Crown Central >Petroleum Corporation, whose company locked out their refinery workers >during contract negotiations two years ago. > >On Wednesday, February 11, 1998, Baltimore religious leaders and >representatives of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice will >be paying Mr. Rosenberg a visit -- to deliver the messages from the people >across the country who have signed on to this open letter and to ask him to >end the lockout. > >If you haven't already signed on to this letter, we urge you to do so right >away. Please email your name back to us at nicwj@igc.org or call me at >(773) 381-2832 and we can add you to the list. > >If you would like to circulate this to others, please circulate it as >quickly as possible. The more names this delegation can deliver, the better. > >Thank you for your quick response. Please give me a call if you would like >more details about the situation. You can also refer to the December issue >of Faith Works. > >************************************* >Open Letter to Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. >CEO of Crown Central Petroleum Corporation > >Dear Mr. Rosenberg, > > As people of faith, we are deeply concerned about the ongoing >lockout of >250 workers at the Crown Pasadena refinery in Houston. This lockout has >persisted since February 1996, when the company and the union failed to >reach an agreement. > Crown workers have been members of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic >Workers >Union for 45 years. We understand that just a few years ago, workers >considered Crown a model place to work. Now, the workers are locked out and >the AFL-CIO has called a national boycott of all Crown products. Management >and union employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the company >for discriminatory practices, and citizens around Crown's Pasadena refinery >have sued the company for health and property damages. The dispute, has >escalated over the two years, with few signs of reconciliation. > All of our faith traditions support the rights of workers to be treated >with justice and dignity. Most faith traditions firmly oppose organized >efforts to break existing unions. Locking out workers is unjustifiable in >contract negotiations. > We call on the company to end the lockout and to address the issues of >discrimination and environmental pollution. Finally, we urge you to take >steps to reach a fair agreement with union representing the workers. >With peace and justice, > >Full Name (please include title): >Organization/Congregation: >Address: >City/ST/Zip: >Phone: >Fax: >email: Ellen M. STarbird, Instructor Laney College Labor Studies Program 900 Fallon St. Oakland, CA 94607 (510) 464-3210 aanz@sirius.com > >Please return to nicwj@igc.org >National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice >1607 W. Howard St., Suite 218 >Chicago, IL 60626 >(773) 381-2832 phone * (773 381-3345 fax >www.igc.org/nicwj From rross@clarku.edu Tue Feb 10 08:29:15 1998 id IAA08329; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:29:09 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 10:17:38 -0500 From: "Robert J.S. Bob Ross" Subject: Poultry violations To: Labor List , Progressive Sociology Network , Campaign for Labor Rights >From New York Times February 10, 1998 Overtime Violations at Poultry Plants By STEVEN GREENHOUSE EW YORK -- Federal inspectors found that more than 60 percent of the nation's poultry processing plants violated overtime laws, the Labor Department announced on Monday. The inspectors, who examined 51 of the nation's 174 poultry plants, also found widespread safety problems, among them frequent back injuries that usually occurred when workers slipped on wet and greasy floors. Deputy Secretary of Labor Kathryn Higgins said that federal inspectors conducted the survey, first, to encourage the industry to improve working conditions and, second, to better understand conditions in plants populated by immigrant, low-wage workers. Federal regulators said the most frequent overtime violations involved the industry's undercounting of the hours worked by chicken catchers, who travel to farms to catch chickens and take them to the plants. These officials said 60 percent of the plants failed to pay the chicken catchers proper overtime, while 51 percent failed to pay workers properly for job-related tasks before and after work, like cleaning up and putting on safety equipment. Greg Denier, a spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, said "that 60 percent are not in compliance with the wage-and-hour law shows that they're an outlaw industry." But officials with the National Broiler Council, the industry association, defended the poultry plants by asserting that the level of violations was high mainly because the Labor Department was enforcing the law differently from the way it previously had. David Wylie, a lawyer for the council, said that for 60 years federal officials had regarded chicken catchers as agricultural employees, who are not covered by federal overtime laws, rather than as industrial employees, who are covered. -- Robert J.S. Ross Professor and Chair Department of Sociology Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 Voice: 508 793 7376 Fax: 508 793 8816 Webpage: http://www.clarku.edu/~rross From aikya@ix.netcom.com Tue Feb 10 11:03:51 1998 by dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id rma028064; Tue Feb 10 12:01:32 1998 From: "Ms. Aikya Param" To: "'Alex Chis & Claudette Begin'" , "'Elinor Levine'" , "'Labor Research and Action Project'" , "'Judy Shattuck'" , "'womenandfmoney@cougar.com'" Subject: Teamsters' Right to Strike Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 08:26:49 -0800 The Teamsters and representatives of major trucking companies agreed on a new five year contract. (Seems unusually long but I'm not sure what the norm is with truckers.) The contract increases wages and pension benefits, limits use of part-timers, and, get this, restores the right to strike over grievances. The right to strike has been severely curtailed in recent years in most union contracts. That curtailment has been enforced with a heavy hand by employers who eliminate jobs of striking workers even in legal, contractually allowed strikes. This is done by hiring replacement workers, moving the business to a new location at which the contract is no longer valid, etc. Many of these employers are content to fight federal labor regulators for years with appeal after appeal, or to simply ignore the rulings. Thus the restoration of a right to strike over grievances in the new Teamster contract is pretty big news. Trucking companies perhaps cannot move operations or easily hire replacement workers. It would seem that the successful U.P.S. strike and the Teamsters very effective wooing of public support weighed in heavily in support of the union. Even so, it is another step toward more power for worker organizations in what is overall a pretty grim picture in the U.S. today. Of course, considering my publication's focus, I must say that the only woman trucker I've seen lately was non-union, a woman delivering paper for a local paper warehouse. Still, this agreement breaks ground for all workers, even if the unionized truckers are predominantly male. Any thoughts on this agreement and the restoration of the right to strike over grievances? 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(++27 11) 482.5011 From fgapasin@ucla.edu Fri Feb 13 13:51:03 1998 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:50:37 -0800 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Fernando Gapasin Subject: Re: Letter of Support for Locked Out Crown workers (forwarded message) --=====================_887445111==_ Hi Ellen: Here's the attached Meany Center Syllabus. Fernando At 10:14 PM 2/9/98 -0800, you wrote: >>Re: Letter of Support for Locked Out Crown workers >>Date: 98-02-04 15:11:57 EST >>From: nicwj@igc.apc.org (National Interfaith Committee) >> >> >>Friends, >> >>Attached is an open letter to Mr. Henry Rosenberg, CEO of Crown Central >>Petroleum Corporation, whose company locked out their refinery workers >>during contract negotiations two years ago. >> >>On Wednesday, February 11, 1998, Baltimore religious leaders and >>representatives of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice will >>be paying Mr. Rosenberg a visit -- to deliver the messages from the people >>across the country who have signed on to this open letter and to ask him to >>end the lockout. >> >>If you haven't already signed on to this letter, we urge you to do so right >>away. Please email your name back to us at nicwj@igc.org or call me at >>(773) 381-2832 and we can add you to the list. >> >>If you would like to circulate this to others, please circulate it as >>quickly as possible. The more names this delegation can deliver, the better. >> >>Thank you for your quick response. Please give me a call if you would like >>more details about the situation. You can also refer to the December issue >>of Faith Works. >> >>************************************* >>Open Letter to Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. >>CEO of Crown Central Petroleum Corporation >> >>Dear Mr. Rosenberg, >> >> As people of faith, we are deeply concerned about the ongoing >>lockout of >>250 workers at the Crown Pasadena refinery in Houston. This lockout has >>persisted since February 1996, when the company and the union failed to >>reach an agreement. >> Crown workers have been members of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic >>Workers >>Union for 45 years. We understand that just a few years ago, workers >>considered Crown a model place to work. Now, the workers are locked out and >>the AFL-CIO has called a national boycott of all Crown products. Management >>and union employees have filed a class action lawsuit against the company >>for discriminatory practices, and citizens around Crown's Pasadena refinery >>have sued the company for health and property damages. The dispute, has >>escalated over the two years, with few signs of reconciliation. >> All of our faith traditions support the rights of workers to be treated >>with justice and dignity. Most faith traditions firmly oppose organized >>efforts to break existing unions. Locking out workers is unjustifiable in >>contract negotiations. >> We call on the company to end the lockout and to address the issues of >>discrimination and environmental pollution. Finally, we urge you to take >>steps to reach a fair agreement with union representing the workers. >>With peace and justice, >> >>Full Name (please include title): >>Organization/Congregation: >>Address: >>City/ST/Zip: >>Phone: >>Fax: >>email: > > >Ellen M. STarbird, Instructor >Laney College Labor Studies Program >900 Fallon St. >Oakland, CA 94607 >(510) 464-3210 >aanz@sirius.com >> >>Please return to nicwj@igc.org >>National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice >>1607 W. 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On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, peterd@spiritone.com (Peter Donohue) wrote: >Here's the proposal rejected by the New Voice's little echoes. > > > > > > > ><> From aanz@sirius.com Mon Feb 16 23:49:25 1998 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:51:57 -0800 To: From: aanz@sirius.com (anzalone/starbird) Subject: Sinn Fiin Statement 14 February >Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 11:14:08 +0000 >Reply-To: paddyn@erols.com >Sender: owner-IRL32-ACTION@gmu.edu >From: Paddy Newell >To: *IRL32-ACT >Subject: Sinn Fiin Statement 14 February >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Mime-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smtp1.erols.com id >LAA02037 >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail4.sirius.com id >IAA00319 >Status: U > >For immediate release >14th February 1998 > >Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams MP, speaking prior to a meeting >of the party's Ard Chomhairle today said: > >"There are no grounds for the governments putting us out of the >talks and in my view the governments know that. All of the >pressure to expel us is coming from the Ulster Unionist Party >and other unionists who have seized on these two recent killings >and are attempting to bully the governments into breaking their >own rules. It is clear that David Trimble will not be satisfied >until he has destroyed the possibility of bringing about the type >of change which is required for a truly democrats peace settlement. > >"I think in all of this you need to look at what Sinn Féin have >been doing. Sinn Féin have worked the process which from our >republican perspective is flawed in many ways. We have worked for >and achieved a substantial mandate. I have disavowed, called for >and worked for an end to all killings. Yet on foot of an >assessment from the head of a discredited RUC paramilitary force >we are going to/may be expelled. Over 100 people have been shot >in the last 20 months by loyalists. Where are the forensics, >evidence and assessments in all of this. I think it is time >that this double standard of continually putting Sinn Féin to the >test at the behest of the unionists is put to one side. > >Sinn Féin are in the talks on the basis of our mandate. We don't >and have never said we represent the IRA . Any attempt to draw a >comparison between Sinn Féin and the UDP is entirely bogus. Just >as any attempt to draw a comparison between the expulsion of the >UDP and the attempt to expel Sinn Féin is bogus. Sinn Féin have >not broken any commitments which we have made and I defy anyone >to present evidence to the contrary. I hear some speculation that >there is some sort of an exit strategy involved here. That is >absolute nonsense. Republicans are committed to making this >process work. > > >Responding to questions on whether the party will challenge to >attempt to expel them from the talks legally, Mr. Adams said: > >"Firstly I don't want to imply that we are accepting that we are >going to be expelled. But if it does happen, it will take place >within the jurisdiction of an Irish government under rules which >are British legal rules. This is a big political question for Mr. >Ahern and I note that he has not yet made any definitive statement >on these matters. Is an Irish government, led by a party which >has indeed made a contribution going back some time to build this >peace process, expelling the representatives of people, especially >in the north, on the assessment by the RUC and at the behest of the >Unionists. The governments may decide with political expediency >that they will put SF out for a week, two weeks, three weeks and >keep the unionists satisfied in an attempt to silence us and then >bring us back in again. We and our voters and supporters refuse >to accept that type of strategy. > >Asked if there was a possibility that Sinn Féin won't return to >the talks if they are expelled: > >"Sinn Féin should not be put out of these talks. The short >answer to your question is I don't know what we will do if we are >kicked out. I am very angry that we have to deal with this >ongoing campaign to marginalise the people who we represent but we >haven't discussed what we will do if we are put out. We won't >even consider what we will do until we have exhausted every >challenge to ensure that we stay in those talks representing and >being part of, as we have been so far, the constructive effort >to bring about a settlement." ENDS > From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Tue Feb 17 01:49:28 1998 Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:16:20 -0800 (PST) Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:10:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:10:09 -0800 (PST) To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: e-mail protest UMass admin.; NAGS Statement From: Carlos Lopez FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 12, 1998 CONTACT: Susan E. Shadwick, (413)545-5312 THE GRADUATE STUDENT SENATE AT UMASS CONDEMNS THE ADMINSTRATION'S DECLARATION OF IMPASSE In an unprecendented abuse of power, the UMASS adminstration has declared an impasse in the contract negotiations with the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) today, and has exposed its total disregard for the welfare of students and workers on campus. With this move the Chancellor has squarely placed himself and the UMASS adminstration in bed with the likes of James Carlin and Dennis Murphy in an effort to undermine democratic practice and the rights of poor and working people in Massachusetts to receive quality public higher education. With this unilateral decision to terminate negotiations, the adminstration has effectively left out over 1000 graduate employees from receiving any wage increases in the foreseeable future. As per the adminstration's last offer, all grant funded employees will not receive wage increases. Chancellor Scott claims that he declared an impasse, "because our current stipend levels are not sufficiently competitive to attract the best graduate students." Yet the adminstration in declaring impasse, in planning to implement a contract which still leaves our stipend levels near the bottom of our peer institutions. The current minimum stipend of $6940 is below the poverty line in the state of Massachusetts. This clearly exposes the adminstration's hypocrisy. The adminstration has also backtracked on its commitment to multiculturalism. By declaring an impasse in contract negotiations, the UMASS adminstration has shown its blatant lack of commitment to cultural diversity and support for ALANA recruitment and retention. This is alarming as the percentage of ALANA has declined in recent years, as much 45% for African Ameican students, and 23% for Latino students. Their current offer implements zero increase in funding to the Office of Minority Graduate Student Recruitment. Furthermore, by declaring impasse, the administration slashes the staffing of the GEO office by 75% in what is unquestionably an act of union bashing. Also by declaring impasse, the administration denies dental and optical coverage to all graduate employees. The Graduate Student Senate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst condemns the administration for violating the norms of democratic functioning by the present unilateral imposition of impasse. This contrasts sharply with the GEO's practice of having bargained with the administration in good faith for the last two years by making significant movement at every stage of the contract negotiation. The Graduate Student Senate pledges its full support and solidarity to GEO and will work towards breaking the impasse and restoring democracy at the bargaining table. ***************** We ask for your support. Please e-mail Chancellor Scott and help us send the message that this situation is absolutely unsatisfactory. His e-mail address is dkscott@chancellor.umass.edu. Thank you! =========================================== From: "Emily E. LaBarbera-Twarog" Subject: umass/amherst admin. bashes grad union! please read the following press release and spread the word to as many activists you know. also, urge chancellor david scott to return to the bargaining table and email him at dkscott@chancellor.umass.edu (pls. forward your message to the geo office as well, the address is at the end of the press release). =20 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:13:04 +0000 From: Graduate Employee Organization To: jitu@cs.umass.edu, elbt@lrrc.umass.edu Subject: press release February 15, 1998 Press and Photo Advisory for Immediate Release Contact: Mahmood Ketabchi or Jennifer Fasulo at the GEO Office 413-545-5317 GEO To Protest Bargaining Impasse Union sets deadline to return to negotiations for 5 p.m. Wednesday =09Graduate Employee Organization members and supporters will demonstrate Tuesday and Wednesday on campus to protest the university=92s refusal to negotiate with GEO in an attempt to bust the graduate union. GEO has set a 5 p.m. Wednesday deadline for the university administration to return to the table and commit to bargaining in good faith toward a negotiated settlement. =09On Thursday, Feb. 12, the university illegally declared impasse in negotiations with GEO, which represents 2,600 graduate students, such as teaching and research assistants. On Friday, Feb. 13, the union filed unfair labor practice charges against the university with the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission for illegally declaring impasse and bargaining in bad faith. =09From 5 to 9 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, GEO members will picket the three entrances to campus: the north entrace at Governors Drive and North Pleasant Street; the entrance at Commonwealth and Massachusetts avenues; and the entrace from Amherst center at Massachusetts Avenue and North Pleasant Street, near the Newman Center. The picket near the Newman Center will be ongoing from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, and until 4 p.m. Wednesday. At noon Tuesday and Wednesday, GEO members will meet at the Student Union for a rally and march to the Whitmore Administration Building to protest the illegal actions. =09On Wednesday, to highlight the fact that many graduate student employees need help with child care to complete their studies, GEO will hold a Family and Childcare Issues Awarenss Day from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 18. At the Student Union Colonial Lounge, parents with their children will gather to provide facts about family issues, including insurance, housing and health services. =09Tonight, Sunday, Feb. 15, about 30 GEO members picketed a dinner in the Student Union Ballroom attended by Chancellor David K. Scott. Graduate students carried signs through the dinner urging Scott to end the impasse, while onlookers applauded. =09On Saturday, Feb. 14, dozens of GEO members picketed outside the Mullins Center before the men=92s basketball game and handed out thousands of leaflets. Many of the basketball fans expressed their support verbally and with the =93thumbs-up=94 sign. Members carried signs that said: =93Stop Intimidation, Start Negotiation=94 and =93Chanc. Scott Can Break the Law, B= ut He Cannot Break Our Union.=94 =09GEO members are angry at the university administration=92s outrageous attempt to break the graduate student union. The university has rejected the graduate students=92 reasonable requests for a living wage, decent heal= th care, child care, and programs to increase access to an education at UMass. Although the university has declared they will be unilaterally imposing raises, more than 1,000 of our members will not receive that raise. =09At 5 p.m. Wednesday, GEO members will gather to decide what to do next i= f the administration continues to refuse to return to the table. =09The Graduate Employee Organization has been negotiating for their third contract since March 1996, and the last contract expired in June 1996. ************************************************* * Graduate Employee Organization * * Local 2322 UAW * * 201 Student Union Building * * University of Massachusetts - Amherst * * Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 545-5317 * * * * geo@oitunix.oit.umass.edu * * http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~geo/ * ************************************************* =========================================== From: Brodie Dollinger Subject: Correction. URGENT: Letter/Phone Campaign for UMass Grad Employee Organization Excuse me, below is additional contact info for Chancellor Scot and Susan Pearson, the Adminitrations chief negotiator. Scot's email: dkscott@chancellor.umass.edu Susan Pearson: susan-pearson@chancellor.umass.edu (413) 545-6228. NAGPS members and friends, The UMass GEO needs our collective support in their ongoing effort to negotiate a fair contract with the UMass administration. In November, the NAGPS Board of Directors unanimously passed a resolution (see below) supporting the GEO's negotiations for a living wage, a diverse campus, adequate health and child care. Friday Chancellor David Scott and the administration suspended all negotiations. In keeping with the principles of NAGPS and said resolution, it is urgent we communicate our position to the UMass adminstration and the GEO. In conjunction with planned rallies on campus February 17th and 18th, I urge everyone to phone Chancellor Scott's office (413-545-2211), and send emails (dkScottWchancellor.umass.edu) and faxes (413-545-2328) on those days. Also call the administration's chief negotiator, Susan Peason, at (412) 545-6228, or email her at Susan-Pearson@chancellor.umass.edu. Please copy emails to the GEO (geo@oitunix.oit.umass.edu), and me (ecc@nagps.org). This is a great opportunity to put our principles into action! Phone calls and faxes are most effective, but emails are also encouraged. You should include your location, NAGPS or other affiliation, and the issue(s) of greatest concern to you; e.g., living wage, diversity, child and health care. I will copy my letter to Chancellor Scott which you may use as a model. I'll also forward a letter which highlights the current situation. For more info, see the GEO web page (http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~geo/). In Solidarity, Brodie Dollinger, NAGPS Employment Concerns Coordinator UMass/Amherst Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) Teach-In NAGPS Board Resolution Supporting UMass/Amherst GEO Labor Negotiations WHEREAS the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) Graduate Student Employees Bill of Rights asserts the rights of graduate student employees to bargain collectively; a fair living wage; adequate leave and child care benifits; adequate health care; and a workplace free of discrimination, and WHEREAS the Graduate Employee Organization at UMass/Amherst is the legal negotiator for 2600 graduate student employees, and WHEREAS the average salary of GEO members ($6991.00) is below the poverty line for a single person in Massachusetts ($7740), and WHEREAS the number of available slots for children in the existing child care programs has shrunk rom 268 to 78 in the past 25 years, despite persistent need, and WHEREAS in the past 23 years, the African American grad student population has droppeed by %49. And, Latino, poor, working-class, immigrant, and single-parent students are underrrpresented, and WHEREAS graduate student employees are currently denied access to the State Employees Dental and Optical Plan, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE NAGPS BOARD OF DIRECTORS THAT: NAGPS supports the claims of the Graduate Employee Organization at UMass/Amherst in its ongoing attempt to negotiate a fair and equitable labor contract. Furthermore, NAGPS supports the November 13-14 GSO Teach-In, in which TAs, instead of teaching their regular class in the regular place, brought their classes to the Student Union, where they facilitated discussions on labor issues. Furthermore, NAGPS encourages its members to e-mail Chancellor David Scott (dkscott@chancellor.umass.edu), and request that he settle a fair contract with GEO. And to send a copy of said letter to GEO (geo@oitunix.oit.umass.edu). _____________________________________________________________________________ NAGPS * NAGPS * NAGPS * NAGPS * NAGPS * NAGPS * NAGPS * NAGPS * NAGPS * NAGPS From: Brodie Dollinger Subject: National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) supports fair negotiations with UMass GEO Dear Chancellor Scot and Susan Pearson, On behalf of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS), which represents over 150 campuses a nearly 1 million graduate-professional students, I urge you to engage in fair negotiations with the UMass GEO. We are well aware of financial constraints, having saved graduate-professional students and universities Billions of dollars through recent federal lobbying efforts; however, the right to a fair living wage is non-negotiable. Univerisities must cease to balance their budgets on the backs of graudate-professional students. Do not let principles of equity and justice be cast aside. Work with the GEO to reach a fair contract. The GEO's request for a living wage, decent health care, child care, and programs to increase access to an education at UMass, are reasonable. We urge you to reconsider your position. See below a resolution of support passed unanimously by the NAGPS Board of Directors. Sincerely, Brodie Dollinger, Employment Concerns Coordinator NAGPS From aaron@burn.ucsd.edu Thu Feb 19 08:53:13 1998 Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:53:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:54:32 -0500 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Aaron Subject: Re: let a hundred flowers bloom Since many subscribers to Labor-Rap probably don't have Word Perfect -- and I don't, either -- I've attached a hand-cleaned, text-only version of Peter's attachment. I've also appended some suggestions to extend Peter's and Michael's ideas a bit. If 'New Voice's little echoes' -- whoever they are, rejected Peter's document -- they'll probably reject my addendum, too! - Aaron >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:04:02 -0800 (PST) >From: peterd@spiritone.com (Peter Donohue) >To: Labor Research and Action Project >Subject: let a hundred flowers bloom >X-Attachments: C:\MSOFFICE\WINWORD\COMMSSNS\SEATTLE4.DOC; > >Here's the proposal rejected by the New Voice's little echoes. > > >Attachment converted: PPC_Eudora:SEATTLE4.DOC (BINA/mdos) (00000C96) > Proposal for ORGANIZING FOR KEEPS Conference Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom: Union Organizing on Commission by Peter Donohue & Michael Eisenscher TOPIC Prohibitively expensive, present AFL-CIO organizing initiatives have little prospect of stemming or reversing the declining proportion of American workers represented by unions. Resources for organizing might be better spent reviving a long-used but seldom-discussed practice among American unions - rewarding successful organizing efforts with commissions. Some unions already use incentives to reward organizing. They offer a percentage of newly organized unit dues to staff organizers, bonuses for officials affiliating independent unions or associations, or dues rebates for new members themselves. Others pay "finder's fees" or bonuses to members who make contact with unorganized workers that leads to recognition and a contract. By offering commissions for those successfully organizing and winning contracts for themselves or other workers, unions could offer workers and others the same opportunities -- but on a dramatically larger scale with greater returns, i.e. large numbers of new members and more collective bargaining agreements. Commissions would encourage initiatives among workers and others by rewarding results. With no money down, union personnel & legal overhead could be redirected or reduced. Not expected to "pick winners" among potential targets, remaining staff could negotiate affiliations and pay commissions at any stage in the union-building process, i.e. show of interest (signed membership applications), recognition election, voluntary recognition, or completed contract. With a risk-reward tradeoff, before certification elections, commissions would be smaller with outcomes more uncertain and possible employer unfair labor practice charges against unions offering monetary inducements for voting for representation. After certification, unions would face higher commissions for units nearing or having won a contract, but could lower the cost by offering professional collective bargaining representation. At present, despite the best efforts of the AFL-CIO and its affiliates, and institutions like the Organizing Institute, only a tiny fraction of union members participate in organizing efforts -- the same activist core already responsible for implementing union programs and carrying on the day-to-day work of the union. A well advertised program of incentives would draw into activity members who have been passive supporters unlikely to respond to traditional appeals. Not depending on the expertise of over-extended professional organizers, commissions could unleash a wave of member initiatives attuned to workers' own concerns. Students could use their shopping leverage for improvements in local retail, restaurant & hospitality industries where they work through commission-financed high school hiring halls. Commission-earning associations of temps or ëindependent contractorsí could offer health insurance and other forms of mutual aid - all with many successful precedents in American union history. Reminding that American unions werenít organized in the first place by professional organizers, AFL-CIO organizing chief Richard Bensinger has said, ìBut I think unless the fight is owned by the membership, and unless union leaders give ownership to the membership, it wonít succeed.î Organizing-on-commission is a way to ìlet a hundred flowers bloom, let a thousand schools of thought contendî among union members and others whose otherwise unpaid initiatives - and rank-and-file leadership - are the future of US unions. WORKING HYPOTHESES & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (1) To maintain union density at its 1995 level (14.9%), the labor movement needed to enroll about 400,000 new members (actually more to allow for losses.) (2) In 1996, union density dropped to 14.5% because the workforce grew by 3 million but union membership remained at about 16.3 million. (3) To raise the 1995 density one percentage point would have required about 1.5 million new members. (4) In the joint UFW/IBT campaign to organize the Watsonville, CA strawberry industry of 15,000 workers, it has been reported that the two unions and the AFL-CIO together have fielded approximately one full time staff person (organizer, field supervisor, or support, research and PR staff) for every 250 to 300 workers. (5) If on average each costs $50,000 annually (salary, benefits, taxes, expenses), which is a very modest estimate, the personnel costs alone for this one campaign for one year would come to $2.5 to $3 million. (6) If that cost were extrapolated nationally, to maintain union density relying on staff organizers would require between $67 and $80 million. (7) Raising union density by one point would cost between $250 and $300 million for a single yearís effort. (8) With $100 commissions per new member - for each worker organized and brought under contract - organizing 220 new workers would earn a $22,000 commission (approximately the average per capita annual income in the United States). Of course, commissions-per-worker might be bid up by unions competing for organized workers, or driven down if too many workers were organized for unions to add as members. (9) With $100 per worker commissions, union density could be maintained by adding 400,000 union members - with contracts signed - at a cost of $40 million. (10) With $100 per worker commissions, union density could be raised by one point by adding 1.5 million members under contract - at a cost of $150 million. (11) With $360 per worker average annual dues, adding 400,000 new members would produce another $144 million in dues revenues; with 1.5 million more, dues revenues would increase by $543 million. (12) National unions or the AFL-CIO itself could increase the incentive by offering a super-bonus (i.e., $50,000) to the union member who brings in the most new members in a given year. This monetary reward could be accompanied by considerable publicity and non-monetary returns to those workers who were recognized for their accomplishments. A graduated and escalating system of incentives could be offered at various levels of the organization, with smaller awards at the state or local level, or at more frequent intervals (six months, calendar quarters, etc.), leading up to the grand prize at the union's convention. Beside encouraging initiatives by workers and others, organizing-on-commission could stimulate unions' own organizing efforts with innovative approaches, provide a benchmark for assessing union strategies and staff performance, and help union officials identify & recruit rank-and-file leaders. Unions could choose to replace their present organizing program with one based on commissions, or augment their current program with a commission arrangement. Union staff could be assigned to strategic campaigns, while members and others paid on commission would find targets of opportunity through friends and family, other acquaintances, or their own recruitment strategies. Members could operate alone, or team up, pooling their efforts and sharing any consequent commissions. Today when union members lose their jobs they frequently lose their connection to their unions. A commission program would encourage them to keep in touch and to organize whatever unorganized workplace in which they may subsequently find work. Every laid off worker or victim of a business failure or plant closing would have the potential to become a roving ambassador for organized labor and a direct emissary of their former bargaining agent. Dr. Peter Donohue is an economist consulting with unions & community groups on the west coast. Michael Eisenscher is an organizer, consultant to unions and a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. --------------------------------------- COMMENTS BY AARON : Not only do the authors recognize the importance of monetary incentives to get anybody to do anything, but they even overcome the traditional union objections to piece rates! Nevertheless, they could and should go farther, and I will suggest some alternative directions: 1) This is a perfect field for multi-level marketing! In the tradition of businesses like Amway, each worker/organizer could recruit new worker/organizers with the inducement that the latter will be able to more than make up their union dues by themselves recruiting new members! 2) Corporations and entrepeneurs are expert at getting people to do things for money -- often for very little money. Perhaps the business of union organizing, and even other union functions like leading strikes, should be privatized altogether! How wonderful it will be to be able to call up one's broker with an order for shares in Labor, Ltd. or Organizers, Inc. Labor will truly have arrived at its proper place in capitalist society! ---------- http://burn.ucsd.edu/~aaron/ mailto:aaron@burn.ucsd.edu Important: Most mail sent to this address between December 11 and 14 was lost in transit. Please resend! From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Fri Feb 20 15:27:55 1998 Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:46:22 -0800 (PST) Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:39:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:39:51 -0800 (PST) To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Don't Bomb Iraq Petition FREELY CROSS-POST, REDISTRIBUTE, CIRCULATE! From: jreardon@igc.apc.org Subject: Don't Bomb Iraq Petition People of the World-- If appearances hold true, there will soon be another military attack under United Nations auspices on Iraqi territory. The following petition is a modest effort to encourage and focus opposition to the use of violence against Iraq. It is directed to the United States government,and particularly to President William J. Clinton, because of the leading role played by the United States in encouraging a military attack. If you support this effort, please add your name, home city, and home nation to the list and forward it to others. Should you happen to be the 100th, 200th, ..., or millionth person to sign, please forward a copy to peace@appleseed.spi.net. The assembled names will be forwarded electronically to President Clinton and other US government officials. They will not be printed nor will they be used for any other purpose. Should you wish to communicate with President Clinton, try any of the following: Address: The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Phone: 202-456-1414 Email: president@whitehouse.gov US citizens may also wish to advise their Congressional representatives of their positions. Congressional representatives may be reached via mail by writing: Representative Senator US House of Representatives US Senate Washington DC 20515 Washington DC 20510 The phone number of the Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121; from there, you can reach the office of any Congressperson. If you don't know who your Congressional representatives are, try http://www.house.gov/writerep/ for Representatives and http://www.senate.gov/senator/state.html for Senators. Thank you for your help. Brought to you by People Just Like You. =================================================== ONE MILLION NAMES FOR PEACE To President William J. Clinton and other officials of the government of the United States of America: We, the undersigned world citizens, strongly oppose any further military attacks against the nation of Iraq. Past military campaigns have already wrought unconscionable destruction that has primarily affected ordinary citizens of Iraq and not personnel of the Iraqi government. The rubric of the United Nations should not be employed to justify further such destruction. Please desist in your efforts to execute another military strike. We desire that you commit yourself to peaceful resolution of existing conflicts with the government of Iraq. 1. Jamie Pehling, Garden Grove, USA 2. Kelly Rittenhouse, Palo Alto, USA 3. Tom Warner, Seattle, USA 4. Charles Scheiner, White Plains, NY USA 5. Lynn Fredriksson, Washington DC, USA 6. Ben Terrall, San Francisco, CA, USA 7. Thomas Johnson, San Francisco, CA, USA 8. Clare Campbell, San Francisco, CA, USA 9. John Fitzgerald, San Francisco, CA, USA 10. Hiram Kato, San Francisco, CA, USA 11. George Fox, San Francisco, CA, USA 12. David Politzer, Altadena, CA, USA 13. Adam Politzer, Altadena, CA, USA 14. Noah Politzer, Altadena, CA, USA 15. Joan Terrall, Altadena, CA, USA 16. Mary Terrall, Altadena, CA, USA 17. Susan T. Simon, New York, NY, USA 18. Lee Simon, New York, NY, USA 20. Molly Simon, New York, NY, USA 21. Greg Simon, New York, NY, USA 22. Jim Terrall, Cornwall, CT, USA 23. Lib Tobin, Cornwall, CT, USA 24. Robert Terrall, Sharon, CT, USA 25. Martha Porter, Sharon, CT, USA 26. Pamela Sexton, Watsonville, CA, USA 27. Curt Gabrielson, Watsonville, CA, USA 28. Azwar Hamid, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 29. Kristin Sundell, Cambridge, MA, USA 30. Larissa Snorek, San Francisco, CA, USA 31. Wendy Aniseh Khan, San Francisco, CA USA 32. Jesus Hermosillo, San Francisco CA USA 33. Art Fridrich, Chicago, IL USA 34. Kenneth Weeks, Palatka, FL USA 35. Juan Reardon, Martinez, CA 36. John A. Reardon, Martinez, CA 37. Michael Eisenscher, Oakland, CA USA From ejd@cwsl.edu Fri Feb 20 22:37:22 1998 Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:35:20 -0800 (PST) Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:29:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:29:24 -0800 (PST) To: can-labor@pencil.math.missouri.edu From: "Ellen Dannin " (by way of Jay Schaffner ) Subject: Kate Bronfenbrenner We urge our colleagues to join with us in protesting Beverly Enterprises' attack on Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner's academic freedom and first amendment rights. Michal Belknap, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law Clete Daniel, Professor of American Labor History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law Julius Getman, The Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair and Professor of Law,University of Texas Law School and former President, American Association of University Professors Lois S. Gray, Alice Grant Professor of Labor Relations, NYSSILR, Cornel University Harry C. Katz, The Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining, NYSSILR, Cornell University Risa Lieberwitz, Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations,Cornell University Richard Lempert, Francis A. Allen Collegiate Professor of Law and Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood & W. St. Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair, University of Texas Law School Deborah Malamud, Professor of Law University of Michigan School of Law Ray Marshall, former Secretary of Labor Scott Powe, Anne Green Regents Chair, University of Texas Law School James Rundle, Labor Education Coordinator, Industrial & Labor Relations Conference Center -------------------------------- The statement, including background information, is set forth below. If you are willing to add your name to the Statement of Protest, please e-mail Ellen J. Dannin at ejd@cwsl.edu. Please add my name to the Statement of Protest: Name: Title for identification purposes: Address: Phone number: Email address: -------------------------- Statement of Protest On February 9, 1998, Beverly Enterprises, a company with a deplorable record in labor relations matters filed a defamation suit in federal court against Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner. Dr. Bronfenbrenner is well-respected academic who has done important research on a variety of labor issues. Beverly seeks both compensatory and punitive damages. With the complaint, Beverly's attorneys, Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Walter & Haverfield, of Cleveland, Ohio, served a massive request for production of documents. Among the documents requested, Beverly seeks copies of all documents and confidential survey data relating to Dr. Bronfenbrenner.'s research on union and employer behavior in union organizing campaigns. It also seeks documents concerning Cornell's policies concerning the faculty research, speeches, presentations, lectures and seminars. The circumstances and background of this suit make clear that this is a thinly veiled attack on Dr Bronfenbrenner's academic freedom and her rights under the first amendment. The lawsuit is based on remarks made by Dr Bronfenbrenner at a May 19, 1997 Congressional Town meeting sponsored by several western Pennsylvania congressional representatives and Rep. Lane Evans (D-Ill). They were joined by Senator Arlen Spector (R-PA). The meeting was called for the express purpose of investigating Beverly's employment policies. Beverly is one of the country's largest nursing home chains. Four days before the Town Hall meeting, Rep. Lane Evans had introduced the Federal Procurement and Assistance Integrity Act (HR 1624), which would give the labor secretary the authority to debar or suspend companies from receiving federal contracts if they have a clear pattern or practice of violations of the National Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, or the Fair Labor Standards Act. Of the more than 750 nursing homes Beverly Enterprises operates, 42 are in Pennsylvania. Beverly is defending itself from hundreds of unfair labor practice complaints brought by the National Labor Relations Board. It also has been identified by the U.S. General Accounting Office as a serious labor law violator. In January 1993, the NLRB issued its decision in Beverly I, finding that the chain had committed some 135 unfair labor practices at 32 facilities in 12 states between mid-1986 and mid-1988. Two other Administrative Law Judge decisions found Beverly had committed additional unfair labor practices between mid-1988 and early 1992 at a number of nursing homes. In the most recent Beverly decision issued November 26, 1997, NLRB Administrative Law Judge Robert Wallace found that Beverly's "wide-ranging and persistent misconduct, demonstrat[ed] a general disregard for the employees' fundamental rights." Dr. Bronfenbrenner's testimony at the meeting presented the results of her past decade's research concerning union organizing. Based on her studies, she concluded: "Beverly stood out in my findings, both for the high level of union activity at Beverly Enterprises facilities and for the consistency and intensity of their union avoidance efforts." Filing a lawsuit against Dr Bronfenbrenner under these circumstances is an affront to the Congress, an insult to academic inquiry and a disgrace to the legal profession. It undermines our legislative process and important democratic values. It is intended to send a warning Dr. Bronfenbrenner and to other academics not to engage in honest inquiry into topics a powerful corporation finds unpleasant. We, the undersigned, are labor teachers and researchers, law professors, and constitutional law scholars at universities and law schools throughout the United States. We condemn Beverly's actions and urge it to withdraw this lawsuit. From dreier@oxy.edu Sat Feb 21 10:34:11 1998 Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 09:38:44 -0800 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Peter Dreier Subject: Re: Kate Bronfenbrenner In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19980221002357.6837f0ea@pop.igc.org> At 09:29 PM 2/20/98 -0800, you wrote: > We urge our colleagues to join with us in protesting Beverly >Enterprises' attack on Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner's academic freedom >and first amendment rights. > > Michal Belknap, Professor of Law, California Western School of > Law > Clete Daniel, Professor of American Labor History, School of > Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University > Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law > Julius Getman, The Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair and Professor > of Law,University of Texas Law School and former President, > American Association of University Professors > Lois S. Gray, Alice Grant Professor of Labor Relations, NYSSILR, > Cornel University > Harry C. Katz, The Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective > Bargaining, NYSSILR, Cornell University > Risa Lieberwitz, Associate Professor, School of Industrial and > Labor Relations,Cornell University > Richard Lempert, Francis A. Allen Collegiate Professor of Law and > Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan > Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood & W. St. Garwood, Jr. > Centennial Chair, University of Texas Law School > Deborah Malamud, Professor of Law University of Michigan School > of Law > Ray Marshall, former Secretary of Labor > Scott Powe, Anne Green Regents Chair, University of Texas Law > School > James Rundle, Labor Education Coordinator, Industrial & Labor > Relations Conference Center > >-------------------------------- > The statement, including background information, is set >forth below. > >If you are willing to add your name to the Statement of Protest, >please e-mail Ellen J. Dannin at ejd@cwsl.edu. > >Please add my name to the Statement of Protest: > >Name: Peter Dreier >Title for identification purposes: E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College >Address: Int'l. & Public Affairs Center 1600 Campus Rd., Occidental College, LA, CA 90041 >Phone number: 213 259-2913 >Email address: dreier@oxy.edu > >-------------------------- > >Statement of Protest > > On February 9, 1998, Beverly Enterprises, a company with a >deplorable record in labor relations matters filed a defamation >suit in federal court against Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner. Dr. >Bronfenbrenner is well-respected academic who has done important >research on a variety of labor issues. Beverly seeks both >compensatory and punitive damages. With the complaint, Beverly's >attorneys, Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon of Pittsburgh, >Pennsylvania, and Walter & Haverfield, of Cleveland, Ohio, served >a massive request for production of documents. Among the >documents requested, Beverly seeks copies of all documents and >confidential survey data relating to Dr. Bronfenbrenner.'s >research on union and employer behavior in union organizing >campaigns. It also seeks documents concerning Cornell's policies >concerning the faculty research, speeches, presentations, >lectures and seminars. > > The circumstances and background of this suit make clear >that this is a thinly veiled attack on Dr Bronfenbrenner's >academic freedom and her rights under the first amendment. The >lawsuit is based on remarks made by Dr Bronfenbrenner at a May >19, 1997 Congressional Town meeting sponsored by several western >Pennsylvania congressional representatives and Rep. Lane Evans >(D-Ill). They were joined by Senator Arlen Spector (R-PA). The >meeting was called for the express purpose of investigating >Beverly's employment policies. Beverly is one of the country's >largest nursing home chains. > > Four days before the Town Hall meeting, Rep. Lane Evans had >introduced the Federal Procurement and Assistance Integrity Act >(HR 1624), which would give the labor secretary the authority to >debar or suspend companies from receiving federal contracts if >they have a clear pattern or practice of violations of the >National Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health >Act, or the Fair Labor Standards Act. > > Of the more than 750 nursing homes Beverly Enterprises >operates, 42 are in Pennsylvania. Beverly is defending itself >from hundreds of unfair labor practice complaints brought by the >National Labor Relations Board. It also has been identified by >the U.S. General Accounting Office as a serious labor law >violator. In January 1993, the NLRB issued its decision in >Beverly I, finding that the chain had committed some 135 unfair >labor practices at 32 facilities in 12 states between mid-1986 >and mid-1988. Two other Administrative Law Judge decisions found >Beverly had committed additional unfair labor practices between >mid-1988 and early 1992 at a number of nursing homes. In the most >recent Beverly decision issued November 26, 1997, NLRB >Administrative Law Judge Robert Wallace found that Beverly's >"wide-ranging and persistent misconduct, demonstrat[ed] a general >disregard for the employees' fundamental rights." > > Dr. Bronfenbrenner's testimony at the meeting presented the >results of her past decade's research concerning union >organizing. Based on her studies, she concluded: "Beverly stood >out in my findings, both for the high level of union activity at >Beverly Enterprises facilities and for the consistency and >intensity of their union avoidance efforts." > > Filing a lawsuit against Dr Bronfenbrenner under these >circumstances is an affront to the Congress, an insult to >academic inquiry and a disgrace to the legal profession. It >undermines our legislative process and important democratic >values. It is intended to send a warning Dr. Bronfenbrenner and >to other academics not to engage in honest inquiry into topics a >powerful corporation finds unpleasant. > > We, the undersigned, are labor teachers and researchers, law >professors, and constitutional law scholars at universities and >law schools throughout the United States. We condemn Beverly's >actions and urge it to withdraw this lawsuit. > > > > > > > From xcruz@webtv.net Sun Feb 22 11:29:59 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:29:50 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: LaborTalk: Is Iraq a Labor Issue?] --WebTV-Mail-2028535503-134 --WebTV-Mail-2028535503-134 Approved-By: Michael Eisenscher Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:44:39 -0800 Reply-To: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement Sender: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: [Fwd: LaborTalk: Is Iraq a Labor Issue?] Path: news.igc.apc.org!cdp!hkelber From: Harry Kelber Newsgroups: labortalk Subject: LaborTalk: Is Iraq a Labor Issue? Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 22:48:18 -0800 (PST) X-Gateway: notes@igc.apc.org Lines: 65 LaborTalk: Is Iraq a Labor Issue? By Harry Kelber It is most unlikely that the AFL-CIO will have anything to say about the looming U.S. military attack against Iraq. The subject of Iraq is taboo in the official labor press. We have yet to see a prominent union leader make any statement, for or against, concerning the Administration's current policy toward Iraq. The prevailing view is that this crisis, as important as it may be, is outside the limits of the AFL-CIO's legitimate concerns. Herein lies a dilemma which, sooner or later, must be confronted. The AFL-CIO proclaims itself as the champion of working families and certainly is striving to attain that posture. But if working people are troubled about U.S. military action against Iraq, including a possible ground war that would mean the loss of countless lives, should the AFL- CIO be indifferent toward their worries? What if the Iraq crisis becomes a hot-button issue in the 1998 elections, will unions continue to ignore it? Will AFL-CIO political campaign literature talk about the minimum wage and health care and have nothing to say about Saddam Hussein and how to deal with the threat that he poses? By remaining silent, organized labor is giving a blank check to whatever the Clinton administration does about Iraq. Does that serve the needs of America's working families? One of the main reasons why unions avoid issues like the bloated and wasteful Pentagon budget, NATO expansion and the proliferation of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons is that they are controversial. (Thousands of workers earn their livelihood in the manufacture of military weaponry.) But often, it is the controversial issues that are matters of public concern, especially during an election campaign. There is a simple and enlightening way to deal with controversy; namely, to present both sides of an issue. In serving the nation's working families, unions ought to provide them with accurate, useful information on all public issues that affect their lives. Take the issue of Iraq, about which there is much confusion: What does U.S. diplomacy consist of? Is it not actually an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to let the U.N. inspectors examine whatever they wish to or else face military action? Should the U.S. engage in military action virtually alone (except for England), with strong opposition from Russia and China and uncertain support from Saudi Arabia? What are the announced military objectives of the White House and what impact will they have on Saddam Hussein and his alleged arsenal of biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction? What effect have the U.N. economic sanctions had on Iraq and should we continue to rely on them rather than engage in military action? Are there other countries that are producing biological weapons of mass destruction, given the fact that scientists have developed the technology to produce them? Should the AFL-CIO have some constructive input on these life-and- death questions or should it leave the decisions to politicians, many of whom have shown little regard for working families? And does the AFL- CIO have a responsibility to provide working people with the facts, pro and con, on these issues? These are questions that ought not to be ignored. They deserve serious answers. --WebTV-Mail-2028535503-134-- From aikya@ix.netcom.com Tue Feb 24 09:53:34 1998 by dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id rma028205; Tue Feb 24 10:52:36 1998 From: "Ms. Aikya Param" To: "'Labor Research and Action Project'" , "'Clifford L. Staples'" , "'united@cougar.com'" Subject: Racism and Unions Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 08:42:40 -0800 Does anyone know about studies that have been done on the subject of unions and racism? Aikya Param, Publisher, Women and Money Economic Justice and Empowerment Monthly Report http://www2.netcom.com/~aikya/womenandmoney.html From robinson@edtech.mcc.edu Tue Feb 24 11:37:02 1998 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:45:37 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Robinson To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Racism and Unions In-Reply-To: <01BD4100.36014420@ala-ca13-13.ix.netcom.com> Aikya-- While I don't have my copy handy, Volume II of _Who Built America?_ deals with the topic in a chapter called "Labor Democratizes America." Who Built America? is a college history text produced by the American Social History Project (founded by the late Herbert Gutman). Each chapter has a bibliography, so it might be a good place to start. For reflections of the issue in popular culture, you might watch the 1978 film BLUE COLLAR with Yaphet Katto, Richard Prior, and Harvey Keitel. Steve Robinson (810) 762-0483 Mott Community College http://edtech.mcc.edu/~robinson Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/user/robins11 From klphil@facstaff.wm.edu Tue Feb 24 13:40:14 1998 In-Reply-To: <01BD4100.36014420@ala-ca13-13.ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:03:03 -0400 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Kimberley Phillips Subject: Re: Racism and Unions Ms. Param: This topic has been of great importance to labor historians. The reading list grows each day, ranging from work on biracial unions to white labor's discrimination against nonwhites. Some of the best work includes studies by Eric Arnesen, Dana Frank, Gary Gerstle, Rick Halpern, and Peter Rachleff. Kimberley Phillips Assistant Professor College of William and Mary Department of History klphil@facstaff.wm.edu >Does anyone know about studies that >have been done on the subject of unions and >racism? > >Aikya Param, Publisher, Women and Money >Economic Justice and Empowerment Monthly Report >http://www2.netcom.com/~aikya/womenandmoney.html From kentwong@ucla.edu Tue Feb 24 13:55:12 1998 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:54:59 -0800 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: Kent Wong Subject: Re: Kate Bronfenbrenner Ellen, Thanks for your help in putting this together. Please add my name, Director, UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education. Thanks. --Kent At 09:29 PM 2/20/98 -0800, you wrote: > We urge our colleagues to join with us in protesting Beverly >Enterprises' attack on Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner's academic freedom >and first amendment rights. > > Michal Belknap, Professor of Law, California Western School of > Law > Clete Daniel, Professor of American Labor History, School of > Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University > Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law > Julius Getman, The Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair and Professor > of Law,University of Texas Law School and former President, > American Association of University Professors > Lois S. Gray, Alice Grant Professor of Labor Relations, NYSSILR, > Cornel University > Harry C. Katz, The Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective > Bargaining, NYSSILR, Cornell University > Risa Lieberwitz, Associate Professor, School of Industrial and > Labor Relations,Cornell University > Richard Lempert, Francis A. Allen Collegiate Professor of Law and > Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan > Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood & W. St. Garwood, Jr. > Centennial Chair, University of Texas Law School > Deborah Malamud, Professor of Law University of Michigan School > of Law > Ray Marshall, former Secretary of Labor > Scott Powe, Anne Green Regents Chair, University of Texas Law > School > James Rundle, Labor Education Coordinator, Industrial & Labor > Relations Conference Center > >-------------------------------- > The statement, including background information, is set >forth below. > >If you are willing to add your name to the Statement of Protest, >please e-mail Ellen J. Dannin at ejd@cwsl.edu. > >Please add my name to the Statement of Protest: > >Name: >Title for identification purposes: >Address: >Phone number: >Email address: > >-------------------------- > >Statement of Protest > > On February 9, 1998, Beverly Enterprises, a company with a >deplorable record in labor relations matters filed a defamation >suit in federal court against Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner. Dr. >Bronfenbrenner is well-respected academic who has done important >research on a variety of labor issues. Beverly seeks both >compensatory and punitive damages. With the complaint, Beverly's >attorneys, Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon of Pittsburgh, >Pennsylvania, and Walter & Haverfield, of Cleveland, Ohio, served >a massive request for production of documents. Among the >documents requested, Beverly seeks copies of all documents and >confidential survey data relating to Dr. Bronfenbrenner.'s >research on union and employer behavior in union organizing >campaigns. It also seeks documents concerning Cornell's policies >concerning the faculty research, speeches, presentations, >lectures and seminars. > > The circumstances and background of this suit make clear >that this is a thinly veiled attack on Dr Bronfenbrenner's >academic freedom and her rights under the first amendment. The >lawsuit is based on remarks made by Dr Bronfenbrenner at a May >19, 1997 Congressional Town meeting sponsored by several western >Pennsylvania congressional representatives and Rep. Lane Evans >(D-Ill). They were joined by Senator Arlen Spector (R-PA). The >meeting was called for the express purpose of investigating >Beverly's employment policies. Beverly is one of the country's >largest nursing home chains. > > Four days before the Town Hall meeting, Rep. Lane Evans had >introduced the Federal Procurement and Assistance Integrity Act >(HR 1624), which would give the labor secretary the authority to >debar or suspend companies from receiving federal contracts if >they have a clear pattern or practice of violations of the >National Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health >Act, or the Fair Labor Standards Act. > > Of the more than 750 nursing homes Beverly Enterprises >operates, 42 are in Pennsylvania. Beverly is defending itself >from hundreds of unfair labor practice complaints brought by the >National Labor Relations Board. It also has been identified by >the U.S. General Accounting Office as a serious labor law >violator. In January 1993, the NLRB issued its decision in >Beverly I, finding that the chain had committed some 135 unfair >labor practices at 32 facilities in 12 states between mid-1986 >and mid-1988. Two other Administrative Law Judge decisions found >Beverly had committed additional unfair labor practices between >mid-1988 and early 1992 at a number of nursing homes. In the most >recent Beverly decision issued November 26, 1997, NLRB >Administrative Law Judge Robert Wallace found that Beverly's >"wide-ranging and persistent misconduct, demonstrat[ed] a general >disregard for the employees' fundamental rights." > > Dr. Bronfenbrenner's testimony at the meeting presented the >results of her past decade's research concerning union >organizing. Based on her studies, she concluded: "Beverly stood >out in my findings, both for the high level of union activity at >Beverly Enterprises facilities and for the consistency and >intensity of their union avoidance efforts." > > Filing a lawsuit against Dr Bronfenbrenner under these >circumstances is an affront to the Congress, an insult to >academic inquiry and a disgrace to the legal profession. It >undermines our legislative process and important democratic >values. It is intended to send a warning Dr. Bronfenbrenner and >to other academics not to engage in honest inquiry into topics a >powerful corporation finds unpleasant. > > We, the undersigned, are labor teachers and researchers, law >professors, and constitutional law scholars at universities and >law schools throughout the United States. We condemn Beverly's >actions and urge it to withdraw this lawsuit. > > > > > > > From jrogers@ssc.wisc.edu Tue Feb 24 14:36:58 1998 From: jrogers@ssc.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:42:09 -0600 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Kate Bronfenbrenner In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980221093844.00a78fa0@bobcat.oxy.edu> I would be happy to join the list of protesters. This is REALLY disgusting. Anyway, info for me is: Joel Rogers, Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. At 09:38 AM 2/21/98 -0800, you wrote: >At 09:29 PM 2/20/98 -0800, you wrote: >>     We urge our colleagues to join with us in protesting Beverly >>Enterprises' attack on Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner's academic freedom >>and first amendment rights. >> >>     Michal Belknap, Professor of Law, California Western School of >>         Law >>     Clete Daniel, Professor of American Labor History, School of >>         Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University >>     Ellen Dannin, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law >>     Julius Getman, The Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair and Professor >>        of Law,University of Texas Law School and former President, >>        American Association of University Professors >>     Lois S. Gray, Alice Grant Professor of Labor Relations, NYSSILR, >>        Cornel University >>     Harry C. Katz, The Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective >>        Bargaining, NYSSILR, Cornell University >>     Risa Lieberwitz, Associate Professor, School of Industrial and >>        Labor Relations,Cornell University >>     Richard Lempert, Francis A. Allen Collegiate Professor of Law and >>        Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan >>     Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood & W. St. Garwood, Jr. >>        Centennial Chair, University of Texas Law School >>     Deborah Malamud, Professor of Law University of Michigan School >>        of Law >>     Ray Marshall, former Secretary of Labor >>     Scott Powe, Anne Green Regents Chair, University of Texas Law >>        School >>     James Rundle, Labor Education Coordinator, Industrial & Labor >>        Relations Conference Center >> >>-------------------------------- >>     The statement, including background information, is set >>forth below. >> >>If you are willing to add your name to the Statement of Protest, >>please e-mail Ellen J. Dannin at ejd@cwsl.edu. >> >>Please add my name to the Statement of Protest: >> >>Name: Peter Dreier >>Title for identification purposes: E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of >Politics, Occidental College >>Address: Int'l. & Public Affairs Center 1600 Campus Rd., Occidental >College, LA, CA 90041 >>Phone number: 213 259-2913 >>Email address: dreier@oxy.edu >> >>-------------------------- >> >>Statement of Protest >> >>     On February 9, 1998, Beverly Enterprises, a company with a >>deplorable record in labor relations matters filed a defamation >>suit in federal court against Dr. Kate Bronfenbrenner. Dr. >>Bronfenbrenner is well-respected academic who has done important >>research on a variety of labor issues. Beverly seeks both >>compensatory and punitive damages. With the complaint, Beverly's >>attorneys, Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon of Pittsburgh, >>Pennsylvania, and Walter & Haverfield, of Cleveland, Ohio, served >>a massive request for production of documents. Among the >>documents requested, Beverly seeks copies of all documents and >>confidential survey data relating to Dr. Bronfenbrenner.'s >>research on union and employer behavior in union organizing >>campaigns. It also seeks documents concerning Cornell's policies >>concerning the faculty research, speeches, presentations, >>lectures and seminars. >> >>     The circumstances and background of this suit make clear >>that this is a thinly veiled attack on Dr Bronfenbrenner's >>academic freedom and her rights under the first amendment. The >>lawsuit is based on remarks made by Dr Bronfenbrenner at a May >>19, 1997 Congressional Town meeting sponsored by several western >>Pennsylvania congressional representatives and Rep. Lane Evans >>(D-Ill). They were joined by Senator Arlen Spector (R-PA). The >>meeting was  called for the express purpose of investigating >>Beverly's employment  policies. Beverly is one of the country's >>largest nursing home chains. >> >>     Four days before the Town Hall meeting, Rep. Lane Evans had >>introduced the Federal Procurement and Assistance Integrity Act >>(HR 1624), which would give the labor secretary the authority to >>debar or suspend companies from receiving federal contracts if >>they have a clear pattern or practice of violations of the >>National Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health >>Act, or the Fair Labor Standards Act.  >> >>     Of the more than 750 nursing homes Beverly Enterprises >>operates, 42 are in Pennsylvania. Beverly is defending itself >>from hundreds of unfair labor practice complaints brought by the >>National Labor Relations Board. It also has been identified by >>the U.S. General Accounting Office as a serious labor law >>violator. In January 1993, the NLRB issued its decision in >>Beverly I, finding that the chain had committed some 135 unfair >>labor practices at 32 facilities in 12 states between mid-1986 >>and mid-1988. Two other Administrative Law Judge decisions found >>Beverly had committed additional unfair labor practices between >>mid-1988 and early 1992 at a number of nursing homes. In the most >>recent Beverly decision issued November 26, 1997, NLRB >>Administrative Law Judge Robert Wallace found that Beverly's >>"wide-ranging and persistent misconduct, demonstrat[ed] a general >>disregard for the employees' fundamental rights." >> >>     Dr. Bronfenbrenner's testimony at the meeting presented the >>results of her past decade's research concerning union >>organizing. Based on her studies, she concluded: "Beverly stood >>out in my findings, both for the high level of union activity at >>Beverly Enterprises facilities and for the consistency and >>intensity of their union avoidance efforts." >> >>     Filing a lawsuit against Dr Bronfenbrenner under these >>circumstances is an affront to the Congress, an insult to >>academic inquiry and a disgrace to the legal profession. It >>undermines our legislative process and important democratic >>values. It is intended to send a warning Dr. Bronfenbrenner and >>to other academics not to engage in honest inquiry into topics a >>powerful corporation finds unpleasant. >> >>     We, the undersigned, are labor teachers and researchers, law >>professors, and constitutional law scholars at universities and >>law schools throughout the United States. We condemn Beverly's >>actions and urge it to withdraw this lawsuit. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > From dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu Tue Feb 24 17:08:35 1998 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:07:45 -0500 To: labor-rap@csf.colorado.edu From: david croteau Subject: NOTE: re: Kate Bronfenbrenner Labor-Rappers: Please note that in the petition circulating re: Kate Bronfenbrenner, the request was as follows: >>If you are willing to add your name to the Statement of Protest, >>please e-mail Ellen J. Dannin at ejd@cwsl.edu. Please don't just hit the reply key and send it back to the list as a whole. Thanks. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| David Croteau * Sociology * PO Box 842040 * Virginia Commonwealth University * Richmond, VA 23284 * E-mail: dcroteau@saturn.vcu.edu From meisenscher@igc.apc.org Tue Feb 24 20:36:38 1998 Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:49:18 -0800 (PST) Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:48:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:48:50 -0800 (PST) To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: WEL 189; Conference of Contingent Faculty; Chron. of Higher Ed CETI Critique WEL 189, CWA/AFL-CIO announces two WWW services for labor educators. (1) Building on our existing resource exchange, our web site http://www.erols.com/czarlab will include a new section "189-Information Request Line" for members to request assistance in teaching or research. (2) Developing a syllabus/workshop/lesson plan exchange program. Full information available at the WEL 189 website. If you do no have access to the Internet, send e-mail to czarlab@erols.com ALERT: 189 Member Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell University is being sued by Beverly Enterprises for compensatory and puntive damages based on remarks she made at a Congressional Town Meeting. For more info and to sign a statement of protest, contact Ellen Dannin ejd@cwsl.edu Ed Czarnecki =================================== From: jrp@hawaii.edu (John R. Pincince) Sender: can-fac@pencil.math.missouri.edu Reply-to: can-fac@pencil.math.missouri.edu Date: 98-02-23 19:39:52 EST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:36:04 -0500 (EST) From: Wilpert@aol.com To: NYAdjunct@aol.com Subject: Nat'l Adjunct Congress The Doctoral Students' Council of the City University of New York Graduate Center Welcomes: Second National Congress of Part-Time, Adjunct, Non-Tenure-Track and GTA Faculty "Our Time Has Come" New York City April 3,4,5 1998 The Second National Congress of Part-Time, Adjunct, Non-Tenure-Track and GTA Faculty will be held in New York on April 3, 4 and 5 1998. The Congress will open at the CUNY Graduate Center at 33 West 42 street. The Second National Congress is an event organized by faculty who are concerned about the current and future state of higher education. Plenary and workshop sessions facilitated by faculty and faculty organizers will address the key strategies, needs and visions of part time/ adjunct, GTA and non-tenured faculty over the three day working conference. This conference takes place at a time when faculty, both full and part time, at institutions of higher education are under an escalating assault. The current trend to degrade the profession through the creation and expansion of an increasingly polarized multi-tier system is academically indefensible and is in the worst interest of students, their parents and the increasingly exploited instructional work-force. The administrative and governing apparatus prioritizes profit-oriented research, endowments, infrastructure, and administration over and against education. The push to drive down faculty salaries, eliminate tenure and populate the university with a group of over-worked contingent laborers may advance the careers of some administrators, but it represents a betrayal of the university's educational mission. In order to combat the forces arrayed against students and faculty alike, we are coming together to educate and organize. This second congress is part of a growing movement of lower-tier faculty, students, and organizers to take an active role in the struggle to save higher education. This congress is envisioned as the continuation of an organized effort by lower-tier faculty to transform the institutions in which they teach. Please publicize this in appropriate forums. CUNY Graduate Center / 33 West 42nd Street / New York, NY, 10036 Brecht Forum/122 West 27th Street/ 10th Floor/New York, NY, 10001 ************************************* Schedule: Opening: Friday Plenary April 3 - 3-9 Workshops on Saturday from 9 - 5:30 (Party Saturday Night at The Brecht Forum) Follow-up at the Brecht Forum on April 5 from 10 am to 3 pm. ************************************** There is no conference fee, but we ask that you register ASAP. REGISTRATION- reply to: vtirelli@email.gc.cuny.edu (or see below). REGISTRATION Name: Affiliation: Phone #: E-Mail: Do you need accommodations information ? Is there a workshop that you would be interested in (describe it): Would you be interested in leading a workshop (describe it)? Can your organization make a contribution to help defray the costs of this event? $50. $100. $250 other_______ Checks can be made out to: CUNY Graduate Center and mailed to: The Adjunct Project c/o Doctoral Students' Council 25 W. 43rd St., Rm. 400 New York, NY 10036 If you cannot register by e-mail mail registration to the above address. For further information, please call Eric at 212 642-2143. ============================================== Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:41:41 -0800 (PST) From: "James L. Wood" Subject: CETI Critique in Chronicle of Higher Education THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION OPINION February 20, 1998 In California, a Dangerous Deal With Technology Companies By JAMES L. WOOD An unprecedented partnership between four large technology corporations and the California State University System has been postponed until at least May, in the face of widespread opposition from employees and students. It is highly unlikely, however, that their serious concerns about the plan, known as the California Education Technology Initiative, can be addressed by then. If the university proceeds with the arrangement, it may have grave consequences for higher education, not only on C.S.U.'s 23 campuses, but across the country, as corporations seek similar sweetheart deals elsewhere. C.S.U. administrators portray the initiative as a win-win deal, in which the university system will gain $300-million in upgraded technology, and the corporate partners -- Fujitsu, GTE, Hughes Electronics, and Microsoft -- will turn a profit. Under the 10-year partnership, the four corporations would provide $300-million worth of high-speed Internet access, desktop computers, educational and other software, training, and support services. This massive technology upgrade would be paid for initially through loans secured by the corporations, in addition to C.S.U.'s $100-million annual budget for technology and telephone service (a $1-billion commitment by the university over the life of the agreement). The corporations have asked the system's university presidents to sign off on the financial arrangement before it is made final, and the academic senates of several of the campuses are seeking a legal injunction from the California attorney general to prevent the deal from going through without agreement by all of the university's major constituencies. Under the terms of the proposed arrangement, it appears that the corporate partners would be the exclusive providers of technology purchased by the campuses, an arrangement the companies have indicated would be necessary for them to realize a profit. The companies have said they will offer the best prices for the technology. If they did not -- or if the technology they offered was not the best-suited to a campus's educational needs -- presumably campuses could award technology contracts to other companies. Those purchases, however, would fall outside of the corporate/university budget arranged by the partnership. The companies also would be given access to university directories, including information about C.S.U.'s 344,000 students, 37,000 employees, and 1.7 million alumni, to help the companies market to those audiences products such as computers, paging services, television sets, and telephone calling cards. James M. Rosser, president of the university system's Los Angeles campus and head of the committee overseeing efforts to upgrade C.S.U.'s technological infrastructure, says the partnership is the best way for the system to get state-of-the-art technology, because the Legislature is unlikely to provide the money needed (Letter to the Editor, The Chronicle, January 30). However, C.S.U. students have good reason for dubbing the partnership the "Corporate Educational Takeover Initiative." Questions remain -- not only about the real financial costs to the university system, but also about the partnership's implications for teaching, intellectual property, and hiring. Although discussions have been going on for about two years -- and administrators claim that they have consulted with all of C.S.U.'s constituencies -- the majority of the university's employees and students, as well as the Legislature, knew nothing of the deal until last fall, when the executive committee of the faculty association on the Fresno campus distributed a pointed critique of the possible partnership. The basic terms of the arrangement still have not been presented straightforwardly, and they seem to change weekly. Nonetheless, on the basis of e-mail discussions with faculty members and administrators, information from C.S.U.'s World-Wide Web site, and internal university documents, it is possible to glean an outline of the plan and to see the dangers it presents. On its surface, the partnership raises obvious financial and legal questions. Could C.S.U. be held fully or partially responsible if one or more of its partners withdrew from the arrangement? In such a case, would extra fees have to be levied on students to pay for the upgraded technology? Would the agreement effectively give the four corporations a monopoly on providing technology for the system? None of those questions has been answered definitively. The companies claim that C.S.U. employees and students would not be limited to purchasing only their equipment and software. However, it's worth considering that the U.S. Department of Justice has sued one of the corporations, Microsoft, for anti-competitive business practices, because Microsoft "bundles" its software programs together, making the purchase of other manufacturers' programs redundant or making it difficult to install other software programs. Why does the C.S.U. administration believe that Microsoft and its partners will operate any differently with the university? At the very least, the arrangement would centralize buying decisions about computer technology for the entire C.S.U. system, impeding the ability of individual campuses to tailor purchases of technology to their individual educational and research needs. What about the effects on students' education? Because profit making is the partners' central mission, the corporations will surely pressure the university to shift scarce resources from upper-level and graduate courses, with small enrollments, to introductory courses with more "customers." The corporations also could pressure their campus partners to create a disproportionate number of distance-learning courses. One of the "products" that the corporations plan to sell is lecture courses developed (presumably) by C.S.U. professors. The more distance courses offered -- or even required -- the more money the corporations would make. The university system's administrators thus far have refused to assure faculty members, officially, that any such broad curricular changes would be submitted to oversight by the academic senates on each campus, which review all regularly taught courses. It is not yet clear whether the corporate partners plan to stipulate in their contract a minimum number of distance-learning courses that the university would have to offer or require of its students. Even if they did not, their regular contacts with C.S.U. administrators would no doubt encourage those administrators to view distance learning favorably. If California's community colleges were to join the partnership, as both C.S.U. and the corporate partners anticipate, courses delivered in an "altered format" -- such as distance learning -- would be subject to faculty oversight, because state law requires such oversight at community colleges. But state law is not enough: To avoid protracted court battles, that stipulation should be an explicit part of any partnership contract. While professors around the country are still debating the pros and cons of distance learning, no curriculum, no matter what its advantages, should be dictated by corporations more concerned with their bottom lines than with academic quality or integrity. Distance learning also raises issues of intellectual-property rights for faculty members who develop on-line courses. An existing agreement between C.S.U. and its faculty union, the California Faculty Association, states that professors and the university will share any profits made from such courses. The corporations have indicated a willingness to adhere to that agreement, but faculty members will need to insure that such an agreement is part of any final contract. Finally, what if the companies' educational products become outdated, or they charge exorbitant fees for upgrades of the programs that they originally install? In a computer world dominated by fast changes and quick obsolescence, other corporations might well have the advanced technology needed -- for educational reasons -- by C.S.U. faculty members and students. The university would be forced to come up with additional money to purchase products from other companies -- if, indeed, the contract allowed them to. The proposed agreement also raises other important concerns. Might computer personnel be replaced with "more qualified" employees -- that is to say, contract workers more familiar with technologies produced by the corporations in the partnership? Might professors who teach introductory-level courses such as Biology 101 find their services no longer needed, if such courses could be taught by "star" professors on other campuses via computer? An early document that C.S.U. received from the corporate partners stated: "It would be unrealistic to expect that the introduction of new technology tools and related automation of currently labor-intensive activities would have no effect on staffing." Even if university work related to the partnership were performed by university employees, could they be asked to work on other campuses in the C.S.U. system? Projecting a need to restructure job content "to meet corporation, technology, and operational needs," the same document predicted that "job functions could be relocated which may trigger a job relocation decision by an incumbent C.S.U. employee" -- a decision that the companies admitted "may not be favorably received." Indications are strong that, just as curricular changes may not be subject to approval by the academic senates, these labor issues may not go through the collective-bargaining procedures to which all C.S.U. employment issues have been submitted since the 1980s. The corporate partners initially said that some work related to the partnership would be exempt from these procedures. When controversy ensued, they sent out e-mail messages assuring faculty and staff members that they intended to retain university personnel. Once again, though, without a final agreement, the legal status of such issues remains unsettled. It seems that, in effect, the proposed partnership would commercialize higher education, allowing profit motives, rather than pedagogical ones, to drive university policies regarding curriculum and employment. It is unnerving to think that major changes could be made to educational and employment policies without the agreement of faculty and staff members. We must be informed of the actual contractual arrangement being proposed, and we must be given time to scrutinize it, comment on it, and agree to any provisions affecting educational and employment issues. If employees of other university systems don't pay attention to negotiations over this proposed corporate partnership,it won't be long before they find their universities facing the same challenges. James L. Wood is a professor and chairman of the department of sociology at San Diego State University. He chairs the political-action/legislative committee of the campus's branch of the California Faculty Association. Copyright (c) 1998 by The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com Date: 02/20/98 Section: Opinion Page: B6 James L. Wood From ejd@cwsl.edu Tue Feb 24 21:21:07 1998 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:20:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Ellen Dannin " To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Follow up on Kate Bronfenbrenner We have had an enormous outpouring of support for Dr. Bronfenbrenner. At this point, we don't need further endorsements. We will be going to the media today (Wednesday, February 25, 1998) with the petition and the hundreds of endorsements. We will try to provide updates as newsworthy events transpire. Thanks, Ellen Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-525-1449 Fax: 619-696-9999 From aanz@sirius.com Wed Feb 25 12:18:52 1998 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:22:31 -0800 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu From: aanz@sirius.com (anzalone/starbird) Subject: Re: Racism and Unions The AFL did a comparison study of segregated union contracts where classifications had similar job duties but disparate pay and the hiring demographics of the company reflected segration of minorities into the low paid categories. The study compared the white workers' pay with white workers elsewhere who did not allow the companies to segragate the people of color. The study showed the people of color were paid the lowest when segregated (daa) the whites workers who allowed segregation were also lower paid than the white and non-white workers who did not allow themselves to be segregated when doing virtually the same work. 1980? Check with the AFL-CIO in Washington. Also Fernando Gapasin at ucla does the training on diversity at the George Meany center. He might hvae some dope for you. Ellen Starbird >Does anyone know about studies that >have been done on the subject of unions and >racism? > >Aikya Param, Publisher, Women and Money >Economic Justice and Empowerment Monthly Report >http://www2.netcom.com/~aikya/womenandmoney.html From ejd@cwsl.edu Wed Feb 25 14:24:05 1998 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:20:13 -0800 () From: "Ellen Dannin " To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu, united , pen-l , messages labor-l , Tami J Friedman , iernlist , group worklaw , irra Subject: Bronfenbrenner X-X-Sender: ejd@cwsl.edu Thank you for your support. We have received nearly a thousand endorsements. Based on these we have put our a press release and expect coverage on this situation. We have also sent the material to the congressional representatives who attended and called the Town Hall meeting at which Kate Bronfenbrenner spoke and which led to the defamation suit. We are no longer taking signatures. Now I need to ask a favor. If you sent the original request for endorsements to someone, would you please follow up with this thanks and also a notice that we are not taking more signatures. My system is receiving about 150 or more emails a day now with no sign of let up. This has the potential to shut it down. So please help me out on this. Best, Ellen Ellen J. Dannin California Western School of Law 225 Cedar Street San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: 619-525-1449 Fax: 619-696-9999 From Strieb@aol.com Wed Feb 25 23:40:15 1998 From: Strieb@aol.com by imo28.mx.aol.com (IMOv12/Dec1997) id 1NWKa00726; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:39:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:39:01 EST Subject: Job announcement - Please circulate Please circulate the job announcement that follows to anyone you think might be interested. We apologize in advance for duplicates, etc.. Thank you. HOTEL WORKERS UNION SEEKS RESEARCHERS FOR EXCITING ORGANIZING CAMPAIGNS NATIONWIDE The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE) is currently recruiting campaign research staff for positions in Connecticut, Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington DC, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and has openings elsewhere on occasion. These staff will be responsible for conducting in-depth research and helping to develop and implement strategic campaigns for organizing in the hotel, food service, and casino industries. HERE's growing Research Department has made important contributions to many of the union's recent organizing and bargaining victories. Current openings are for both Research Analysts and Senior Research Analysts. Applicants from other professions are encouraged to apply for these positions. HERE researchers include people who worked previously as organizers, journalists, urban planners, filmmakers, and political staff. Ideal researcher candidates will have activist experience; demonstrated research skills; excellent writing and speaking ability; familiarity with basic financial concepts; and ability to work well with others in a team environment. Salary is negotiable on the basis of experience; excellent benefits. To apply, send cover letter and resume to: Recruitment, HERE Research Department, 1219 28th St., NW, Washington, DC 20007-3389, Fax: 202-333-6049. No phone calls, please. Please circulate this notice to others. Thank you. Posted 2/10/98. From xcruz@webtv.net Thu Feb 26 00:15:47 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:15:43 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: Robeson Gets Grammy --WebTV-Mail-795222717-1684 --WebTV-Mail-795222717-1684 Approved-By: Michael Eisenscher Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:50:39 -0800 Reply-To: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement Sender: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Robeson Gets Grammy postoffice-122.bryant.webtv.net id WAA02312 Robeson Receives Posthumous Grammy By Verena Dobnik Associated Press Writer Wednesday, February 25, 1998; 10:49 p.m. EST NEW YORK (AP) -- Football star. Lawyer. Singer. Actor. Scholar. Activist. Paul Robeson succeeded at almost everything he ever did. And then, one of the most brilliant American artists of the century put everything on the line to fight for the rights of the oppressed around the world. A posthumous Grammy lifetime achievement award has been added to Robeson's resume -- a sign that his talent finally may have eclipsed the political controversies that wiped out his career. ``I guess some of the garbage remains, and there are people who can't see through the clutter to the clarity,'' says Bill Pickens, president of the Paul Robeson Foundation in New York. Twenty-two years after his death, Robeson was bestowed the Grammy honor in New York, the same city where he accepted the International Stalin Peace Prize in 1953. The prize from a Soviet regime came at a time when he was persona non grata in the United States during the McCarthy era. The son of a slave had turned to sympathizers in the Soviet Union while voicing his social causes, which included fighting for civil rights in the United States, singing for Americans battling fascism in Spain and standing behind Welsh coal miners trying to improve their conditions. His beliefs were too strong even for baseball star Jackie Robinson, who opposed Robeson's view that black Americans should not ``go to war on behalf of those who have oppressed us for generations,'' as Robeson once told a Paris audience. Now, with the April 9 centennial of Robeson's birth, appreciation is reawakening for a man who was among the most widely known Americans in the world, speaking a dozen languages as he traveled. Robeson lost his U.S. passport for his ideological support of the Soviet Union. When questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, he refused to say whether or not he was a communist. Politics all but silenced the deep baritone voice that had graced ``Ol' Man River'' on screen, made him a powerful Othello on stage and helped legitimize spirituals as an art form. This year, besides the Grammy honor, his achievements are emerging through exhibits, film festivals, lectures and about 40 CDs. © Copyright 1998 The Associated Press --WebTV-Mail-795222717-1684-- From xcruz@webtv.net Thu Feb 26 13:21:16 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:21:11 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: Fw: LaborTalk: 19 States Target Unions --WebTV-Mail-646396750-21 --WebTV-Mail-646396750-21 Approved-By: Nathan Newman Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:07:35 -0800 Reply-To: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement Sender: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement From: Nathan Newman Subject: Fw: LaborTalk: 19 States Target Unions -----Original Message----- From: Harry Kelber To: newman@socrates.Berkeley.EDU Date: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 10:33 PM Subject: LaborTalk: 19 States Target Unions LaborTalk: 19 States Target Unions By Harry Kelber With a "war chest" now amounting to $150 million, the nation's major corporations have teamed up with some of the most aggressive rightwing groups to prevent unions from using their dues money for any kind of political activity. They have introduced bills and Initiatives in 19 States which are remarkably similar, despite some differences in language, and they plan to do the same in the other 31 States. Like the Worker Paycheck Protection Act (H.R. 1625), a bill sponsored by 111 anti-union Republicans in Congress, they all have a common aim: to eliminate the AFL-CIO and its affiliated unions as an important factor in national and local politics. The Business Roundtable, the elite organization of top-ranking corporate executives, has contributed at least $20 million to the national effort to silence unions. The National Association of Manufacturers is spending $18.75 million, a kitty raised through a special assessment of its members. The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Thomas Donahue, in a speech last November, declared: "You're going to see us everywhere. . . . We will energetically oppose union-led programs to hijack the American political system." Spearheading the political attack on unions is the Americans for Tax Reform, which has produced a strategy guide for introducing state ballot initiatives and legislation. Rightwing foundations have contributed more than $70 million, plus $20 million from Americans for Job Security and at least $10.5 million from the notorious anti-union Right to Work Committee. A major test of the nationally-coordinated campaign to throttle labor's voice in politics will come on June 2, when Californians will vote on an Initiative that would prohibit unions from using any portion of a member's dues for political purposes without written authorization from the member. The referendum is sponsored by a so-called Campaign Reform Initiative and has the strong support of Republican Governor Pete Wilson, who is its chairman. Although both the Democratic and Republican parties have engaged in scandalous and legally questionable fund-raising, American labor has become the current target for "campaign financing reform." Despite the fact that Big Business outspent organized labor by a margin of 11 to 1 in the 1996 elections, the corporate-rightwing coalition is determined to put a choke on fund-raising by unions and enmesh them in a nightmarish tangle of bookkeeping, administrative and legal problems. With an enfeebled labor movement, the Big Business bloc in Congress would have a free hand to tamper with the overtime provisions of the wage-hour law, wipe out federal prevailing wage regulations, reduce workers' compensation benefits, cut down on workplace safety inspections, squeeze Medicare and Medicaid and turn over Social Security to the Wall Street crowd. If H.R. 1625 and the various state bills and initiatives are enacted, it would set the stage for the biggest windfall ever for Corporate America, amounting to billions of dollars annually--at the expense of working families. That's what the corporate-rightwing alliance is really after behind their hypocritical concern and cynical bait about the dues of union members. --WebTV-Mail-646396750-21-- From xcruz@webtv.net Fri Feb 27 01:34:21 1998 From: xcruz@webtv.net (Robert Chavez) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 01:34:16 -0700 To: Labor-Rap@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fwd: Cockburn: The Legal Assault on Workers' Rights --WebTV-Mail-149521647-435 --WebTV-Mail-149521647-435 Approved-By: Michael Eisenscher Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:44:55 -0800 Reply-To: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement Sender: LABNEWS - News and Organizing about the Labor Movement From: Michael Eisenscher Subject: Cockburn: The Legal Assault on Workers' Rights Thursday, February 26, 1998 COLUMN LEFT / ALEXANDER COCKBURN Will a Tsunami of Suits Sink Dockworkers? The Pacific Maritime Assn. is targeting union locals and picket sympathizers to break solidarity. By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Jack Heyman, a member of Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in San Francisco, faces the possibility of being fined hundreds of thousands, maybe millions in damages because he honored a picket line. He's also threatened with being permanently barred from doing his job. Members of the Laney College Labor Studies Club in Oakland face the same financial sanction because the club's banner was seen at the same picket line. The Peace and Freedom Party faces such fines for similar reasons. All these people and groups are also being harassed to name all participants in the protest and to reveal all their past political and union associations. What provoked this assault? In the fall of 1997, there was a protest in the port of Oakland against a container ship called the Neptune Jade chartered by a Singapore company. The reason for the protest was the ship's British cargo. Back in 1995, the Mersey Docks and Harbor company in Liverpool fired 500 men when they refused to cross a picket line set up by their work mates, some of whom had been fired earlier for having tried to fight employers' attempts to sabotage a labor agreement. Liverpool was at the time the last organized port in the Britain with a collective bargaining agreement. The fight sparked a big response by dockworkers all over the world. There were pickets from Vancouver south to Long Beach and across the Pacific to Japan and Australia. Unable to discharge its cargo in Oakland, the Neptune Jade traveled to Vancouver, then Yokohama, then Kobe. At each stop, the dockers said no. It was a reaction that might surprise some in this era when organized labor has been so much on the defensive. But worldwide, even in these dour times, the dockworkers have had a huge political effect. When Nelson Mandela visited the United States in 1991, he made a particular point of thanking ILWU workers for solidarity actions in the 1970s and 1980s--refusing to handle South African cargo, for example--which he said had been crucial in "reigniting" the spark of anti-apartheid action in the U.S. While in theory the men in charge of the employers' Pacific Maritime Assn. might be against apartheid, they were, and are, even more fiercely opposed to anything that inhibits their capacity to move cargo as swiftly and cheaply as possible. Such is the logic of business that prefers casual dockers to union workers, or cowed union workers to organized folk standing up for their rights. In the wake of the Neptune Jade protest, the PMA has brought lawsuits against the ILWU and the picketers, designed to send a simple message: Acts of worker solidarity will not be tolerated. Again and again, the PMA has gone to court in a program of intimidation in the form of multimillion-dollar damage suits and associated legal maneuvers against individual workers and sympathetic outsiders as well as the unions. The drive-them-to-the-wall strategy of the PMA is the work of Joseph Miniace, who came two years ago from outside the industry--from the health care sector. Miniace tells the Journal of Commerce that all he wants is the unions to be "accountable." He talks about "win-win" situations in reorganizing the dispatch halls in the interests of competition and efficiency. If there's one thing workers have learned these last 20 years when most workers' wages have remained static, it is that a win-win plan from management means a sure loss for workers. The Longshore workers, precisely because they're tough and well-organized, make good money--though not nearly as good as Miniace's. The PMA continues to seek damages for a 1995 coast-wide strike in support of two Seattle officials of the ILWU who, the union says, were unfairly disciplined on the job. The PMA has already won a federal injunction forcing the union in the Port of Oakland to cross solidarity picket lines. And the PMA is readying McCarthy-style probes against anyone who might defy them. Part of the bedrock of freedom is the right to strike, though the right to honor a picket line was eroded as long ago as the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Nonetheless, the dockworkers have always found ways to act in support of causes such as fighting apartheid. But if the PMA's lawsuits stick, the union will be busted, which is Miniace's obvious aim. Unless all workers see the importance of this struggle, the right to set up and honor picket lines, the very survival of the labor movement is at stake. - - - Alexander Cockburn Writes for the Nation and Other Publications Copyright Los Angeles Times --WebTV-Mail-149521647-435-- From rsaute@email.gc.cuny.edu Fri Feb 27 08:49:01 1998 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:48:51 -0500 (EST) To: Labor-Rap From: ROBERT SAUTE Subject: 1998 Socialist Scholars Conference From rsaute@email.gc.cuny.edu Fri Feb 27 08:49:53 1998 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:49:49 -0500 (EST) To: Labor-Rap From: ROBERT SAUTE Subject: 1998 Socialist Scholars Conference --=====================_888605401==_ --=====================_888605401==_ 1998 Socialist Scholars Conference "A World to Win: From the 'Manifesto' to New Organizing for Socialist Change" March 20 to 22, 1998 Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers Street NYC ***** Join Michael Moore, Katha Pollit, Stephen Jay Gould, Frances Fox Piven, Manning Marable, Ellen Willis, Reverend Al Sharpton, Samir Amin, Doug Henwood, Stanley Aronowitz, Ellen Meiksins Wood, David Abdulah, Leith Mullings, Harry Magdoff, Daniel Singer, Paul Sweezy, Sal Albanese, Elaine Bernard, Aijaz Ahmad, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Bill Fletcher, David Harvey, Jakob Moneta, John Bellamy Foster, Bogdan Denitch, Tom Frank, Kim Moody, Angela Ards, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Hector Figueroa, Edward Herman and dozens more... for a weekend of debate & dialogue. 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