03/28/2008 - 4:41pm
You can join RWU to be a supporting member and/or you can use and develop your talents to find your niche as a RWU activist!
06/20/2008 - 3:59pm
Demonstrations in more than 20 cities took on the health insurance companies on June 19th, 2008. Read the RWU resolution in favor of Single Payer Health Care as embodied in House Resolution 676, the Conyers "Medicare for All Bill"
06/07/2008 - 10:49pm
06/02/2008 - 8:37pm
What should our unions do about the skyrocketing cost of living? Read this resolution for an answer.
05/28/2008 - 9:03pm
Whereas: the rail carriers have succeeded for years in establishing “pattern contracts” by first bargaining with one of the rail unions, and then using provisions of the Railway Labor Act to “force” that pattern on remaining unions;
05/22/2008 - 3:07pm
05/14/2008 - 2:56pm
A greeting to RWU from historian Colin J Davis about his book on the Great Shop Strike of 1922
05/12/2008 - 7:48am
Most railroaders have come to believe over the years of protracted contract negotiations that the Railway Labor Act (RLA) prohibits strikes unless all of the tortuous requirements of Section 6 of the Act have been fulfilled and that there is no way to legally strike because the dispute always ends up with the appointment of a Presidential Emergency Board which, more or less, imposes a contract settlement upon the rail unions and the carriers.
05/08/2008 - 10:03pm
Billionaire California bond manager Bill Gross calls it "a haute con
job." Bloomberg News columnist John Wasik describes it as "a testament
to the art of economic spin." More and more shoppers and consumer
simply disbelieve it.
The subject of this scorn is the federal government's vaunted
Consumer Price Index or CPI. Americans are now beginning to understand
that this indicator has its own share of gimmicks not unlike a
sub-prime mortgage or the six pages of fine print that accompanies your
credit card agreement.
05/08/2008 - 8:33pm
From a Peter Rachleff review of the the book "Taking Care of Business"
"...This brings me to the example that I most want to discuss, one even more troubling
for those labor activists and historians who see Sweeney as representing a break with
the past. These events did occur before the publication of Taking Care of
Business but they receive no consideration in its pages. (For my account of these
events, I am relying on articles published in Labor Notes and electronically in
the internet newsletter, Mexican Labor News and on personal communications
with people who participated in a trip to Mexico to meet with railroad workers or in
union gatherings with them in the U.S. I want to be clear that the interpretation of these
events and their significance is my own.) ......"
