In the United States, the Democratic Party intends to prevail atn the November 7 2006 elections. Many new candidates have come forward at local, county, and state level to participate in reclaiming the Senate, the Congress and eventually the Presidency.
Many banners in rotation were reposted to support the election of Democratic Party candidates nationwide.
One year after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast there is still much to be done. Many labour groups joined with the Association of Community Organozations for Reform Now (ACORN)program to have their members Volunteer in New Orleans. A banner was presented to direct site surfers to ACORN's online outreach effort.
The GM Opel Vauxhall Saab crisis grew as GME management threatened to close their Combo vehicle operation in Azambuja, Portugal and move production to Zaragoza, Spain. GME management added to the turmoil with statements of their intentions to expand its capacities to Central and Eastern Europe.
Several links pages have been rearranged and a new Human Rights Links page added.
The Amicus and the T&G unions' boycott campaign against Peugeot encourages people not to buy Peugeot and Citroen cars because the company proceedes with the closure of its Ryton plant in Coventry. The company refused to meet the unions to consider a plan to save 2,300 jobs which are to move to France and low-wage Slovakia.
Amicus and the T&G are calling on people and companies looking to buy cars to penalise Peugeot for putting still-greater profits before their loyal British workforce. The unions are appealing to the UK public to support UK workers by choosing not to buy Peugeot or Citroen cars. They are also appealing to the UK's seven million trade union members to boycott Peugeot and Citroen.
The University and College Union is the new name of the merger between the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education and the Association of University Teachers. In an effort to avoid confusion, duplicate entries were presented under UCU / NATFHE, UCU / AUT call letter combinations.
The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union - Labour Adjustment Committee provides assistance to ALL displaced forest-sector workers, hourly and salaried, laid off from saw mills and pulp & paper mills.
This banner was presented to signal that there would be no support for M. Pen in 2006 either.
'The End of Child Labour: Within Reach' is the focus of this years' campaign against child labour.
Several banners were presented to support the New Democratic Party online donation campaign.
At the first available opportunity, Willie Lambert stepped forward to run as CAW National President in the upcoming convention in August in Vancouver BC. Instead of helping the automakers to shutdown the Canadian auto industry and impoverish the employees and retirees as the current CAW leadership continues to do, Willie Lambert presents a plan that calls on the membership to oust these concessionary failures, and to move forward once again. The CAW gave away 1000's of auto jobs and then turned to fill the revenue void by raiding the ranks of other CLC affiliates. In turn, trade unionist began a process to dismantle the CAW and re-integrate the auto worker jobs into more socialist leaning unions. Willie Lambert presents himself as a potential leader of the CAW, a leader that can restore the CAW union to its former position as the most successful private sector union in Canada.
A banner was presented in support of the bold campaign platform put forward by Willie Lambert.
After gaining the support of the masses, the students lead a triumphant campaign to have the Chirac government rescind their youth employment law. The beaten leader had met his match.
A banner was presented in support of the anti-CPE mobilization who opposed the 'Contrat premiŠre embauche' - the `first employment contract' victory.
When Delphi / GM requested the bankruptcy court to through out the employment contracts of 33,000 unionized workers, and requested permission to close 21 factories in the United States, the entire auto-parts workforce was stunned into silence. Earlier risk-averse hourly employees had pointed fingers at the radicals, blaming their activist ways for the threat to their way of life. The radicals pointed back to those true believers claiming that concessions and 'jointness' were the means to everyone's work extinction. Both sides were proved wrong when Delphi / GM made it known that none of the countless offers from senators, congress members, mayors, county councillors business persons, unions, or anybody else had been considered. Delphi / GM had taken their wealth out of the US jurisdiction and was closing operations there. Clearly there had been no position that could have saved some of the jobs. No position except all out war against the auto makers and their allies.
Several banners were presented to support the rising awareness that the SOS movement mustered. Slowly the workers began to understand that their common enemy was the corporation and not one another. New messages of solidarity were declared to bolster resolve of the growing rebellion.
The Global Unions HIV/AIDS programme is a worldwide effort to share best practices. National unions are encouraged to participate in helping to develop the global picture of the fight against HIV / AIDS in the world of work.
Over the upcoming months, updates and new materials will be shared by Global Unions with organisations that register through e-mail.
The U.S. Federal Government decided that wild mustang horses were too costly to care for so they sold them at auction for butchering. Several horses escaped through to Canada. The balance were to be carved up for meat. The U.S. cavalry was nowhere to be found and did not come to the rescue.
Bill Ford stepped in and claimed over 1000 mustang horses. The balance of the U.S. government discard are to be cared for through a fund called the Save The Mustangs Fund. Ford Motor Company partnered with Take Pride In America to make this global online outreach. Undoubtedly, many more programs will be abandoned by the U.S. Federal government as they re-direct taxpayer dollars to their war machine.
'Child Labour in Mines & Quarries' is the focus of this years' campaign against child labour.
Even though the Bolkestein Directive was sidelined, there was still enough interest for it to re-emerge in the future. Efforts continued to reduce the strength of this EU directive to zero potential.
