Category Archives: Global News

Articles related to the global labor movement

Climate Change Event with Christian Parenti, 9/26

Christian Parenti on Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence Special Event sponsored by the Pratt Faculty Union (UFCT 1460) Monday, September 26, 2011 6:30 Alumni Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Pratt Library   Please join the Pratt Faculty Union (UFCT 1460) for a special presentation by Christian Parenti, investigative journalist, contributing [...]
Comments Off | By trotsky | September 19th, 2011

Rally to Support LIU Faculty, Monday, 9/12, 3-5

Dear UFCT Member: As you’ve probably heard, our fellow Brooklyn faculty colleagues at LIU are on strike. Calling a strike is never a cavalier move, or is it a stunt; but only called for when management chooses to be completely intractable with respect to collective bargaining. The LIU faculty union had been negotiating for a [...]
Comments Off | By trotsky | September 11th, 2011

Christian Parenti on Climate Change, Sept. 26, 6:30

Christian Parenti on Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence Special Event sponsored by the Pratt Faculty Union (UFCT 1460) Monday, September 26, 2011 6:30 Location TBA Please join the Pratt Faculty Union (UFCT 1460) for a special presentation by Christian Parenti, investigative journalist, contributing editor at The Nation, Puffin Foundation [...]
Comments Off | By trotsky | September 5th, 2011

NYC Rally to Support Wisconsin Unions 2/22

Here are the details.
Comments Off | By trotsky | February 21st, 2011

Watch Out for Wisconsin’s Union Bustin’ Governor!

UPDATE, February 17: Massive Protest of Wisconsin Workers, Government Grinds to a Halt What used to be the land of Russ Feingold is now the home of the most virulent anti-union governor in the US in decades. Speaking of Feingold, he just founded a new organization to fight corporate control of government.
Comments Off | By trotsky | February 15th, 2011