A Network of Airline Activists Building Solidarity From the Ground Up

Our Objectives:

1. That all Americans will be entitled to a fair and honest wage, affordable health care coverage, a safe work environment, and protection from corporate greed.

2. Create a political force to stand up to big business and corporate-backed measures that are hostile to American workers.

3. Support and elect politicians who sign our pledge and follow through with worker-friendly votes.

The Association for Union Democracy (AUD) is a pro-labor, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the principles and practices of democratic trade unionism in the North American labor movement. It is the premise of AUD that internal democracy makes unions stronger and better able to fight for the rights and interests of working people. We provide organizing, educational, and legal assistance to union members fighting for greater control of their unions. No other organization is dedicated solely to advancing the democratic rights of union members.

The "Friends of Labor" web site exists to share local perspectives on issues of importance to the harbor community. We're family, friends, homeowners and business people from throughout the Los Angeles harbor area who support the tenants of "live better, work union, shop local." Our intentions are to provide factual information on the issues at hand, to respond to many of the misleading stories popping up on anti-labor web sites, and to offer an alternate opinion to articles in print publications that are under increasing influence from major retail groups.

Contract negotiations between the ILWU and Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) in 2002 are what inspired our group to form.

We are concerned members of UFCW Local 588 working to build a more democratic union. We believe the highest authority in the union should be the voice of the membership.

ILA Rank and File is an organization of ILA members who came together around our recent contract negotiations to fight for a just contract.

ICE-UFT is a caucus within the United Federation of Teachers. We started as a diverse band of active and retired teachers who joined together in October 2003 to provide an alternative voice for school workers, addressing the deplorable conditions for teaching and learning in New York City, and exploring ways to make the UFT into a stronger and more democratic union.

This project is an honest good-faith effort to provide my fellow IBEW brothers and sisters, their families and any interested public members with information and resources needed to help them gain a better understanding about the inner workings of our great brotherhood. It is my wish to help them in their efforts regain the pride that their association and membership in our brotherhood once afforded them.

Unity of All Rail Crafts:  For decades, the carriers have played one craft off against the other to our mutual detriment. This lack of unity has contributed greatly to our lack of power, which has in turn hampered our ability to negotiate and enforce good contracts. We are unable to effectively confront the carriers on issues of vital concern to our membership-attendance, crew fatigue, discipline, safety, etc.-because we are divided. The carriers are degrading and deskilling our crafts, implementing new technologies that threaten our jobs, our safety and livelihoods, propose the dismantling of FELA, demand drastic health care concessions, and more. In the face of this aggressive attack, is there any doubt of the need for the

Union labor activists working to encourage democratic reform in the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Retail Worker is labor news and discussion, by, for and about retail workers. This site is sponsored by the IWW

My name is Ross Bagnasco and I have been a loyal union member of UFCW Local 135, Since 1988.

I never had any desire or reason to became familiar with the activity inside the union structure. Always paid my dues on time and that was it, until Mr Kasparian was elected President of UFCW Local 135.

Many years ago the fledgling Seafarers International Union adopted the wearing of white hats to signify that they were untouched by the criminal element that infested the Longshormen's Union. We know for certain that this is a fraud and have suspected same for a number of years. Below you will find information from a member of the American Maritime Officers Union concerning donations made to two Mafia members by both the Maritime Defense League and the American Maritime Officers Legal Defense Fund. These donations of seafarers hard earned money were made without permission or knowledge of the rank and file members of those unions.

SEIU Member Activists for Reform Today (SMART) is an organization of rank-and-file members of SEIU who believe that members are the real source of strength for our Union and the people behind every victory. Members have fought for years in our work sites, in the streets, and in the halls of government to make SEIU the largest and strongest union in the country – now 1.9 million workers strong. Members also know that growth is critical to our success, and to rebuilding a fighting labor movement – but not growth at all costs, and not without full participation of the members.

"UE" is the abbreviation for United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, a democratic national union representing some 35,000 workers in a wide variety of manufacturing, public sector and private non-profit sector jobs. UE is an independent union (not affiliated with the AFL-CIO) proud of its democratic structure and progressive policies.

We will not be silenced
Nous n'allons pas nous taire
No seremos silenciados
Non ci faremo imbavagliare

The campaign for justice for Fremantle workers continues.