Dreiling's Links to Labor

 LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net

Selected Labor News Briefs here

Harry Bridges

May Day  -- Retrieving Erased Memories

Unions on the Web --

• The Union Ring
• United Electrical
• Industrial Workers of the World
• Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
• AFL-CIO
• The Teamsters, and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union
• Oil, Chemical, & Atomic Workers
• United MineWorkers of America
• United Farm Workers
• California Nurses Association
• United Auto Workers
• Service Employees International Union
• Union of Needlcraft, Industrial & Textile Employees
• The Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF)
• Labor Links Page
• The Labor Party Home Page

Worker Conflicts and Current Campaigns --

• Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Treeplanters and Farmworkers United of

the Northwest) represents over 4000 Oregon farmworkers -- (PCUN) -- Boycott Gardenburger and all NORPAC foods.  Support those whose labor brings food to your table.
• The National Labor Committee (NLC) -- for information on major corporate campaigns.
• Global Exchange
• Sweatshop Watch -- for information on major corporate campaigns.
• The Detroit Newspaper Strike, Strikers' News, and Rank-and-File Militancy
• The Strike Page

Voices of Grassroots Unionism --

• Solidarity -- A Socialist-Feminist Organization of Rank-and-File Activists and Intellectuals
• Jobs With Justice -- From the Bottom-Up, JWJ works to build labor-community coalitions.
• Labor Video Project -- One of the cutting-edges in working class political culture, merging technology and vision.
• Campaign for Labor Rights -- A project of the Nicaragua Network Education Fund, is a bridge between local activists and many of the major organizations initiating campaigns for labor rights around the world and here at home.
• Pride at Work -- A national organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender labor activists and their supporters who recognize the importance of communication in building solidarity and support in the work place and fighting for social justice.
• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) --
• National Interfaith Committee For Worker Justice -- People of faith who educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

Labor Education and Research --

1. At Oregon
2. At Berkeley1, and 2
3. At Cornell
4. Economic Policy Institute
5. At Illinois
6. Organizing Institute
7. In Hawaii

 

International Working Class Solidarity --

• The Korean Labor Movement --
• International Liaison Committee for a Workers International --
• UE's International Solidarity Page --
• Center for Third World Organizing --
• International Transport Workers Federation --
• International Metal Workers Federation --
• International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions --

Government Data and Miscellaneous  --

The Political Consequences of Class Formation -- The Two Souls of Socialism -- Hal Draper, 1966.
U.S. Department of Labor --
Bureau of Labor Statistics --
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) --
International Labor Organization (ILO)
 Union Online
DAMN - Direct Action Media Network (created in part by a group of locked-out newspaper workers)