Monthly Archives: December 2007

Farmworkers and Students Take on Burger King

Student activists, leveraging their power as the target audience of Burger King, threatening a boycott as they have done elsewhere in similar situations, join forces with farmworkers to demand a one penny (!) per pound increase in wages.  Read the article in The Nation.  –Suzanne Verderber 
Comments Off | By Suzanne | December 14th, 2007

URGENT: HELP SUPPORT FACULTY AT PACE TO GAIN RECOGNITION

Pratt faculty: please show solidarity with Pace adjunct faculty by attending the following rallies.  They have asked for our support.  They have been bargaining for their first contract for the adjunct faculty for more than 3 years.  Enough is enough!!!  A number of Pratt faculty have already pledged to show up (weather permitting).  Come to [...]
Comments Off | By Suzanne | December 8th, 2007

NPR Debate Moderators All Wet on Sweatshop Labor

Global News  This piece explains quite well how paying sweatshop laborers more in other countries like China, and allowing them to unionize, will ultimately have very little effect on retail prices in the US and will actually improve the situation of American workers. –Suzanne Verderber
Comments Off | By Suzanne | December 7th, 2007

Hillary, Obama and Healthcare

Global News This article claims that NONE of the health insurance plans offered by the top 3 candidates for the Democratic nomination for president will work, because none of them do anything to control costs (and, if anything, increase the cost).  The conclusion of the author of the report is that a the only way [...]
Comments Off | By Suzanne | December 5th, 2007

American College of Physicians Endorse Single-Payer

Global News  It seems relevant to post articles here dealing with the debate over universal, single-payer health care and/or medicare for all, given that health coverage is always one of the biggest items on our bargaining table.  This article points out that the American College of Physicians, the second largest organization of physicians in the [...]
Comments Off | By Suzanne | December 5th, 2007