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Boston School Bus Drivers Union blasts bosses’ reopening schemes By Steve Gillis posted on March 15, 2021 In direct confrontation with the U.S. ruling class’ monolithic drive to “reopen” schools and businesses, even as the pandemic continues to rage, Boston School Bus Drivers picketed their employer, Transdev, March 9. They gave voice to the outrage of frontline workers over this dangerous gamble with the lives of both the school children and the workers. Nora Braggs and Steve Smith of Local 8751’s “Team Solidarity” leadership. (WW photo: Maureen Skehan) The school bus drivers are members of the 1,000-strong United Steelworkers Local 8751. Along with USW monitors and leaders of Boston’s labor movement, they shut down deliveries and normal operations at the headquarters of Transdev, the international corporation that manages the school buses. At their morning break, hundreds of drivers converged from their three bus yards with picket signs demandin ....
It was a freezing afternoon in February 2011 as I marched up State Street to the Wisconsin State Capitol. I was between undergraduate classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when I caught word that a group of graduate-student workers were delivering valentines to Republican Governor Scott Walker and holding a rally at the Capitol urging him not to abolish their collective-bargaining rights. I had some time to kill and was curious about the action, so I marched along with them. On the Capitol steps, I learned that Walker was proposing drastic legislation, known as Act 10 â ostensibly a âbudget repair billâ â that would strip away the collective-bargaining rights of public-sector workers. It would effectively kneecap the unions that represented my graduate-student teaching assistants, K-12 teachers, public-works employees, and other public-sector workers. The legislation would force public-worker unions to re-certify themselves annually by obtaining a ....
In 1932 Florence Reece, the wife of a Kentucky coal miner, wrote one of the classic topical songs preserved in the folk musical revival. The song, Which Side Are You On?, contrasts the lot of the working class and the bosses, and asks the listener to choose. This politically charged song was performed again during the Civil Rights Movement, with its lyrics appropriate to the 1960s. It was recorded more recently by Billy Bragg. Indeed, the story of this song might serve as a microcosm of the entire history of the folk music revival. Dick Weissman, former member of the Journeymen and a musician still releasing CDs of his original compositions, brings his personal and professional involvement to this definitive history. Which Side Are You On? includes chapters and sections on the Lomaxes, Harry Smith, the little known Lawrence Gellert, Woody Guthrie, Josh White, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, groups such as the Weavers and the Kingston Trio, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Sim ....
I published my first poem in 1988 in “Grain,” a literary journal of minor import in Saskatchewan. It was titled “Hermiston,” which is a small city in eastern Oregon not far from the Columbia River. My subject was the fate of migrant workers, something I knew about having worked as a tree planter in Washington State, a daffodil picker in northern California and as an inept machete-wielding cutter in the hops fields of southern Oregon. The last lines of the poem are as follows: ....