WIN Labor News May 1, 2007

Headlines:

* Rallies For Immigrant Workers Rights In Cities Coast To Coast Today
* UNITE-HERE NYC Rally Promotes Immigrant Garment Workers Rights
* Peruvian Metal Workers Are On Strike
* Delta Airlines Emerges From Bankruptcy

Labor News April 30, 2007

Headlines:

* Communities honor those fallen on the job for Workers Memorial Day
* Hayward teachers return to work
* Alliance@IBM take concerns to shareholders

WIN Labor News April 27, 2007

Headlines:

* Flight Attendants Reach Tentative Agreement on $195 Million In
Concessions
* "Internet Preservation Act" Seeks To Protect Internet Neutrality

WIN Labor News April 26, 2007

Headlines:

* Chrysler Sale Closer To Reality As Unions Oppose It
* Hayward Teachers Strike Enters Day 11
* AFL-CIO Report Says Worker Safety Laws And Enforcement Are Too Weak
* Economic Report: Brains And Wealth Don't Necessarily Coincide

WIN Labor News April 25, 2007

Headlines:

* Newspapers Struggling In New Media Environment
* NYC Labor Conference Focuses On Media For A New Worker's Movement
* Income Inequality Is Negatively Impacting Social Security
* Economic Report: Wal-Mart Management Diversity Needs Work

WIN Labor News April 24, 2007

Headlines:

* Hayward, California Teachers Use Internet To Wage Strike Fight
* NW Flight Attendants In Marathon Bargaining Sessions
* Washington State To Offer Paid Family Medical Leave
* Reformers Taking Office In New Jersey ILA Federally Supervised Local

Labor news April 23, 2007

Headlines:

* Teamsters win in quick strike against Kroger
* CEO pay bill has few teeth
* Edwards calls for repeal of NAFTA
* Eleven workers fired after wildcat strikes
* Canadian Supreme Court refuses Wal-Mart appeal

WIN Labor News April 20, 2007

Headlines:

* Senate Republicans Costing Senior Citizens Millions of Dollars
* USW: Homeland Security Chemical Plant Rules Fall Short
* NW Flight Attendants Picket In Detroit To Protest Plan To Reward Execs
* Thirty-Two Chinese Workers Killed In Molten Steel Accident

WIN Labor News April 19, 2007

Headlines:

* Steelworkers, U.K.'s Amicus To Form First Trans-Atlantic Union
* Autoworkers Get A Billion Dollars Worth Of Good News
* Senate Republicans Block Effort To Let Medicare Negotiate Lower Drug
Prices
* Economic Report: Home Foreclosures Up Sharply For March

WIN Labor News April 18, 2007

Headlines:

* UFCW National Bargaining Unity Seeks Affordable Health Care, Decent
Wages
* Strike Could Be In Coca-Cola's Future
* Class War Driving Historic Income Inequality In The U.S.
* Economic Report: Bay Area Mortgage Defaults Impacting Its Economy

Labor News: April 17, 2007

Headlines:

* Citigroup to move 9500 jobs to "lower cost locations"
* Canadian workers could be forced back to work by government
* USW and Amicus could merge to become global union
* U.S. Supreme Court hears case on wages and homecare workers

Labor News April 16, 2007

Headlines:

* Privitization of letter carrier jobs undermines middle class
* Beloit Education Association and AFL-CIO announce plans to merge
* Study finds most U.S. workers unprepared for retirement

WIN Labor News April 13, 2007

Headlines:

* Steelworkers File Unfair Labor Practices Charges Against Rexam
* SF Weekly: SEIU Nursing Home Contracts Don’t Expand Worker Rights
* Plant Closings Threaten Small Illinois Town
* Vonage Cutting 1800 Jobs

WIN Labor News April 12, 2007

Headlines:

* Farm Labor Organizing Committee Says Organizer's Murder as An Attack On
The Union
* Canadian Auto Workers Not Interested In "Partnership" With Kekorian In
Chrysler Bid
* Maryland Governor Expected To Sign First State Living Wage Law

WIN Labor News April 11, 2007

Headlines:

* Steelworkers Strike Maker of Coca-Cola Cans Over Unfair Labor Practices
* L.A. Labor Movement Unites Behind UFCW's Possible Grocery Strike
* USC Students Sit-In To Protest Sweatshop University Clothing
* Immokalee Workers Head To Chicago On Heels Of McDonald's Victory
* Economic Report: Unions Have Improved Economic Conditions For All
Workers

WIN Labor News April 10, 2007

Headlines:

* Teamsters Urge First Student Bus To Stay Neutral In Organizing Drive
* U.S. Violating International Labor, Human Rights In North Carolina
* U.S. Labor Against The War Urges Congress To Prevent Attack On Iran
* Economic Report: Iraq War Costs Working Families $10 Million An Hour

WIN Labor News April 9, 2007

Headlines:

* Teamsters: California Port Drivers Treated Like Sharecroppers
* States Are Taking Anti-Payday Lending Steps To Protect Working Poor
* Dana Corp., Unions Under Order To Keep Talking As April 13th Court Date
Approaches

WIN Labor News April 6, 2007

Headlines:

* UFCW Leaves California Contract Talks Over Grocery Chain Lockout Pact
* Report Reveals Inadequate Health Insurance Creating Financial Havoc
* Kerkorian Pledges "Partnership" With UAW If Chrysler Purchase Bid Is
Accepted

WIN Labor News April 5, 2007

Headlines:

* NJEA Calls For New Jersey To Fix Its Underfunded State Employees
Pension System
* Steelworkers Reach Tentative Bridgestone/Firestone Contract Agreement
* EPI Economist Calls For New Worker-Friendly 21st Century Trade Policies
* UM Students Arrested After Anti-Sweatshop Sit-In
* It's Back To The Future For "McJobs"

WIN Labor News April 4, 2007

Headlines:

* Metal Trades Council Reaches Tentative Agreement At Northrop-Grumman
* Flight Attendants Challenge "Unique Approach To The Law" Banning a
Strike
* Thousands Support Campaign To Pull Smithfield Pork In 22 Cities
* Sub-Prime Collapse Is A Red Flag For Mortgage Market

WIN Labor News April 3, 2007

Headlines:

* Coal Strike Possible, UMWA Will Rally In Illinois Thursday
* Unions Meet With Northrop-Grumman, Mediator In Strike Talks
* CAW Sitdown Shuts Plant, Results In Severance Pay Partial Payment
* USW President Says Paper Tariffs Good For U.S. paper Mill Workers

Labor News: April 2, 2007

Headlines:

* Northrup Grumman and striking workers may meet
* More than 100 autoworkers continue plant occupation in Ontario
* Outsourcing creates loss of expertise in national security
* Economic Report: Free trader says more than 40 million U.S. jobs at risk