WIN Labor News August 31, 2007

Headlines:

* California Legislature, Governor In Intense Discussions Over Health
Care Reform Bill
* NYC Yellow Cabs May Stop For a 48-Hour Strike Over GPS Devices
* Striking Australian Auto Parts Workers Supplying Ford Are Back At Work
* Senator Clinton Picks Up Endorsement of International Association of
Machinists

WIN Labor News August 30, 2007

Headlines:

* AFL-CIO: 2008 Elections Will Be A Mandate On Health Care Reform
* Employers To be Recruited To Join Labor Health Care Reform Effort
* Two Major Unions Endorse Different Dem Presidential Candidates
* Teamsters Sue To Block Bush Mexican Truck Plan

WIN Labor News August 29, 2007

Headlines:

* Hundreds of Workers Are Confronting Smithfield At Its Shareholders
Meeting Today
* More Than Thirty-Six Million Americans Are Still Suffering In Poverty
* A New Health Report Shows 9/11 First Responders Are Developing Asthma
* Australian Workers Striking A Ford Supplier Are Demanding Their
Contract Be Honored

WIN Labor News August 28, 2007

Headlines:

* Hundreds Laid Off At Utah Mine As Governor Asks Feds For Inspection
* Report Confirms The Union Advantage For Lower-Wage Workers
* Kentucky Workers Rights Board Will Present Working Conditions
Recommendations
* Dems Try To Close Hedge Fund Partner Income Tax Loophole
* Delaware Union Donates School Supplies To Strapped Working Families

Labor News: August 27, 2007

Headlines:

* Orange County Choppers accused of hiring "scabs"
* City of Boston to dump Smithfield products
* USW begins work on second master contract after successful negotations with paper mills

WIN Labor News August 24, 2007

Headlines:

* UFCW: ICE Raids Are Tragic Political Theater That Devastates
Communities
* Nurses Urge Presidential Candidates In Iowa To Support Single-Payer
Health Care
* "Security And Prosperity Partnership of North America" Would Hurt
Workers
* Personal Info of 1.6 Million Job Seekers Lost To Cyber Thieves

WIN Labor News August 23, 2007

Headlines:

* National Labor Relations Board is Refusing To Negotiate With It’s
Employee Union
* Angry Tired Teachers Return To School Rockin’ To The Union Beat
* Baltimore Educators Are Working To Rule As Contract Talks Stall
* Economic Report: Mortgage Market Bust Causes 11,000 Layoffs In Four
Days

Labor News August 22, 2007

Headlines:

* New York state nurses are saying O-U-T to mandatory OT
* Aer Lingus strike averted
* Santa Barbara paper ordered to bargain with union
* New Jersey strengthens mine safety laws
* Economic Report: Americans taking shorter vacations

Labor News August 21, 2007

Headlines:

* Farmers call for "country of origin" labeling
* Workers put additional pressure on Connecticut Valley Hospital after scathing Justice Department report
* New Delphi agreement sets new auto industry pay scale standard

Labor News: August 17, 2007

Headlines:

* Suicide rates up for those taking on the most dangerous job in the world
* UAW local members begin strike authorization votes
* http://www.laborradio.org/node/6622
* "War Made Easy" looks at media and the war effort
* Economic Report: New home construction hits 10-year low

Labor News August 16, 2007

Headlines:

* NLRB employee union calls for resignation of NLRB General Counsel
* Seven unions ask NLRB to enforce minority work place union representation
* Unions in Washington State gather to plot out future
* Economic Report: Lou Dobbs takes up U.S. vacation fight

Labor News August 15, 2007

Headlines:

* Aer Lingus headed for strike
* Appeal court denies federal union request to overturn union neutralizing personnel rules
* Coalition forms to drive down prescription drug prices for smaller unions
* IAM files suit against NASA
* Construction worker arrested during Tienanmen Square protests finally released

Labor News August 13, 2007

Headlines:

* Fate of future Delphi workers in the hands of current Delphi workers
* Illinois state workers to receive paychecks - for now
* Pasadena Ritz Carlton discriminating against minority employees?

WIN Labor News August 10, 2007

Headlines:

* China Threatens Liquidation Of U.S. Treasury Holdings - Dems Call For
Getting Tougher With China
* AFL-CIO Redoubles Political Mobilizing As It Decides Not To Endorse A
Candidate In Dem Primary
* Economic Report: Wall Street Shakes As Sub-Prime Economic Earthquake
Deepens

WIN Labor News August 9, 2007

Headlines:

* Peace, Olympics And Labor Understanding In The Windy City
* Hugo Chavez Has Used Oil Money To Cut Poverty In Venezuela By 31
Percent
* Forty Percent Of Americans Have Inadequate Health Insurance
* Smithfield Workers Walk Off Job To Protest Lack Of Drinking Water
* Machinists To Have It Both Ways In Presidential Primaries?
* Economic Report: George W. Bush, Economic Cheerleader

Labor News August 8, 2007

Headlines:

* Dem Presidential Candidates Speak To Workers In AFL-CIO Forum
* Workers React To Dem Presidential Candidates At AFL-CIO Forum

WIN Labor News August 7, 2007

Headlines:

* AFSCME Reveals Low Wages At Chicago's Resurrection Catholic Hospital
* ILWU Planning October Antiwar Effort
* Economic Report: Is Job Creation High Enough?

Labor News August 6, 2007

Headlines:

* US Air Force weighs keeping jobs in US or moving them to France
* Northwest and Pilots agree on contract that includes perfect attendance bonus
* What does Cerberus acquisition of Chrysler mean for workers?
* Petrol worker strike leads to shortage in South Africa

WIN Labor News August 3, 2007

Headlines:

* USW Wants Dupont To Stop Making PFOA Chemicals Used In Teflon
* California Labor Federation Defending Lunch Break Rights For Workers
* Air Traffic Controller's Union Wants Discipline For Supervisor In
Assault On Worker
* UPS Decides To Give NJ Teamsters Civil Union Couples Health Benefits

WIN Labor News August 2, 2007

Headlines:

* Harley Workers Win Contract That Includes Raises, No Health Premium
Hikes
* USW Gets Commerce Department To Investigate Chinese Tire Dumping
* Two Thousand Continental Tire Retirees Get Health Care Cuts Restored
* National Day Laborer Organizing Network Meeting In Washington, D.C.
* Workers, Union, Heed NAACP Call To Meet With Smithfield
* Iraq’s Oil Ministry Ordered Not To Deal With Unions
* Economic Report: IMF Expects “Soft Landing” For U.S. Economy