Student Labor Action Project at UCF

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Brooklyn, NY: We Want Justice for...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:00:57 -0400

Brooklyn, NY: We Want Justice for Kimani Grey!

Tuesday, March 12 - 7pm

52nd St. and Church Ave., East Flatbush, Brooklyn

Vigil/protest/march/FTP all in one. Bring friends, share with your networks and bring noise makers. We need to demand for justice by any mean necessary. The killing by NYPD has to stop. Enough is Enough!

Brooklyn neighborhood on lockdown following protest against police killing

motherjones: msnbc: Melissa Harris-Perry showed this...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:01:16 -0400

motherjones:

msnbc:

Melissa Harris-Perry showed this incredible chart today during a discussion on wealth in America and what this week’s stock market gains actually mean for most American families.

Hey, that looks familiar.

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:01:49 -0400

think-progress: Real life.

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:01:18 -0400

think-progress:

Real life.

gentledom: azspot: bartcop.com Well said.

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:01:12 -0400

gentledom:

azspot:

bartcop.com

Well said.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Breaking: Walmart Warehouse Fires...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:01:23 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Breaking: Walmart Warehouse Fires Walmart Strikers

“My coworkers and I have been fired yet again from Walmart’s largest distribution center, for simply organizing workers to stand up for respect on the job, a safe work place, and an end to retaliation. The Labor Board has told our boss to reinstate us, but the company is stalling. We need to get back to work,our families are counting on it! Please send an email today to pressure Walmart and Roadlink to comply with the law!”

Send off an email today

Via Stand Up! Chicago

chica-empoderada: Today’s action at the University of Florida...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:01:57 -0400

chica-empoderada:

Today’s action at the University of Florida calling Senator Marco Rubio to support a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers

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Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:01:10 -0400

socialismartnature: Demonstrators face-off against police...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:01:09 -0400

socialismartnature:

Demonstrators face-off against police during a protest against the shooting of Kimani Gray, March 13, 2013 in the East Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Numerous arrests were made during the police crackdown on this protest.

16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot and killed by police on March 9, provoking unrest in the neighborhood.

americanmanufacturing: finchniche: Long Live the Industry....

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:01:26 -0400

americanmanufacturing:

finchniche:

Long Live the Industry. Hopefully soon we will see a reemergence of manufacturing in the USA #textiles #manufacturing #jobs #mills #industry

Co-sign.

easterndeath: Soviet poster, circa 1950. Reads, “Do you want to...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:01:15 -0500

easterndeath:

Soviet poster, circa 1950. Reads, “Do you want to be like me - then exercise!”

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Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:01:13 -0500

tearsofthephilistines: Angela Davis (woodcut) — Sister, You Are...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:02:07 -0500

tearsofthephilistines:

Angela Davis (woodcut) — Sister, You Are Welcome in this House!

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Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:06:55 -0500

literary-ethnography: Not sure where this was, but it is a very...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:04:02 -0500

literary-ethnography:

Not sure where this was, but it is a very creative sign.

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Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:03:34 -0500

nhlabornews: #unions put people first. #1u #p2

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:02:06 -0500

nhlabornews:

#unions put people first. #1u #p2

"Why aren’t we looking at what we’re spending our money on instead of just being like, ‘Oh, we need..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:40:00 -0500

““Why aren’t we looking at what we’re spending our money on instead of just being like, ‘Oh, we need this,’ and passing it on to the students?””

- Vice President Jazmine Salas on the fee increases. Read the article here

With tuition and fee increases becoming routine, students are starting to feel the pressure. Student loan debt just hit $1 trillion dollars. Meanwhile, the university has started to approve new amenities- a new gym and renovations to the library featuring a costly robotic arm to find students books. Administration will force the cost onto students without asking a single student for their input.We are forced to tighten our belts for things we did not ask for.

Isn’t it time you had a say?

Join us

Monday, 4:30 in the SU 222.

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Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:01:23 -0500

America does not hate Labor Unions. In fact most workers would prefer to be in one.

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:01:26 -0500

America does not hate Labor Unions. In fact most workers would prefer to be in one.:

America’s long and steady march toward a fully disposable workforce continues apace, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week. Union membership is at its lowest point in nearly a century, with just 11.3% of all workers – the same level it was in 1916. To put this in proper historical perspective, union members are as rare today as they were at a time when being one could get you shot to death in a mining camp by the Colorado national guard.

Not that there is a great public outcry to return to the halcyon days of garment factory fires and tubercular slaughterhouses, or workers rallying to demand their bosses take away their pensions and bathroom breaks. [B]Surveys show that most people wish they had more, not less input into their working conditions, and that a majority of non-union workers would choose to join a union, given the opportunity.[/B] Most do not get that opportunity, whether due to outright intimidation, or the ongoing shift of large parts of the economy toward part-time, temporary, low-wage and no-benefit jobs.

Union decline is nothing new: it began in the US in the mid 1950s and has been accelerating since the mid 70s. What’s new this year is why: while deunionization was long linked to deindustrialization, now union losses are concentrated in government, the last bastion of organized labor. Decades ago, facing factory closings, many unions shifted to the public sector, organizing what were then seen as stable jobs: teachers, firefighters, cops, state-funded healthcare and childcare workers