NLG Labor & Employment Committee

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2007 April
~ The Cuban 5 - Legal Abuse Masquerades as National Security by Eileen Silverstein
~ Major Whistleblower Protection Bill Moves Through Congress; Grassroots Activism Urgently Needed by Marshall Chriswell
~ Just Cause in China by Ursula Levelt
~ Guild Lawyers Participate in Human Rights Delegation to Oaxaca; Guild Follows Up with Support for Human Rights Organizations by Robin Alexander & Jennifer Harbury

2006 October
~ AFL-CIO Enters Groundbreaking Partnership with National Day Laborers Organizing Network by Jon Hiatt
~ Victory for UNITE HERE Local 2
~ L&EC Summer Project Supports UNITE-HERE by Owen Thompson
~ Legitimacy and Legality: Fighting for Work in Argentina by Zoe Brent
~ Who's the Boss at Kentucky River? NLRB Refuses to Hear the Voice of Labor by Joan G. Hill
~ Sugar Law Center Supports Unions' Struggles Against Walmart - Defends Workers' Rights
~ Highlights of the 2006 NLG Convention for L&EC Members

2006 April
~ Gulf Coast Hurricane Survivors Ask International Body to Investigate Human Rights Violations by Melissa Crow
~ Fusion Voting: A Cure for What Ails Our Political System by Barbara Dudley
~ Winning and Losing a Strike by Ursula Levelt
~ The Transit Workers Violated No Law by Jim Pope
~ New Trade Union Initiative Launched in India by Robin Alexander
~ Seventh Labor & Employment Committee Delegation to Cuba Convenes in Santiago by Rita Verga
~ Court Settlement Touted as Breakthrough for Agricultural Guest Workers; FLOC Wins Major Victory by Robert Willis
~ New Mexico Lawsuit Filed to Prohibit Employers from Classifying Farmworkers as Independent Contractors by Olga Pedroza
~ Teach Your Children Well by Sylvia Ramirez
~ Immigration Law Reform - The Heat is On by Ana Avendaño

2005 October
~ The House of Labor Divided - AFL-CIO and Change to Win by Mike Healey
~ Resisting Wal-Mart: Canadian Wal-Mart Employees Take a Stand Against Anti-Union Tactics by Claude Melançon and Sibel Ataogul
~ NLG, ALAL, ANAD and SNTSS Will Coordinate Efforts in the Fight for International Workers' Rights

2005 May
~ Building a Stronger Labor Movement: The Rebirth of Worker Centers by Marielena Hincapie
~ NYC L&EC Chapter Hosts Presentation on Walmart's Anti-Labor Practices by Ursula Levelt
~ Bay Area L&EC Actively Supporting Sweatfree Ordinance in San Francisco by Fran Schreiberg
~ Sixth Labor & Employment Committee Delegation to Cuba Convenes in Havana by Joan Hill and Dean Hubbard
~ Labor Organizations Internationally Oppose Mexican Government's Labor Law Reform Package by Robin Alexander, Jeff Vogt and Dan LaBotz
~ Students Urge the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Declare that Discrimination Resulting from Hoffman Plastic Violates Human Rights by Anais Sensiba and Shaun Yavrom
~ Ivory Tower Sweatshops Endorsed by Bush NLRB by Sally Otos
~ To Make a Long Story Short - The Life and Times of Arbitrator Sam Kagel by Ian Ruskin

2004 October
~ State of the Union: Labor Issues and the 2004 Election
~ Civil Rights Attorneys Concerned by Justice Department Role in 2004 Election
~ When the Chips are Down - We'll Be There; Labor and Allies Protect the RIght to Vote
~ CBTU Says Black Workers Hit First and Hardest by Unemployment
~ Farmworkers Organize in North Carolina! by Roberts Willis
~ NLG Protects Students' Right to Vote; NLG Students Face Down Fox News in Arizona by Sara Ransom
~ Global Solidarity - L&EC Donates to Botswana Mining Workers by Joan Hill
~ Smith v. City of Jackson, MS by Michael Evan Gold
~ L&E Committee Announces 6th Bilateral/3rd International Professional Research Exchange in Cuba by Dean Hubbard

2004 April
~ 2004 Elections - What's At Stake - What's Our Role
~ When the Chips are Down - We'll be There by James Piotrowski
~ Coca-Cola - The Drink that Repressesi by Ursula Levelt
~ Protecting Immigrant Workers' Rights to Workers' Compensation post-Hoffman Plastic: What NLG Lawyers Need to Know by Rebecca Smith
~ The Living Wage Movement Comes of Age by Tom Stephens
~ NLG Members Observe El Salvador Election by Emily Maloney
~ Farmworkers to be Paid for Travel Time from AP story in The Desert Sun

2003 October
~ 2003 Convention Panel Highlights War on Workers by Tom Stephens
~ Patriotism is Defending the BIll of Rights by Peter Erlinder
~ L&E Committee Announces 5th Bilateral/2nd International Professional Exchange in Cuba
~ L&E International Solidarity Work: The Dominican Republic by Dean Hubbard
~ Defending Workers' Human Rights in a Global Economy: Report from Inaugural Meeting of International Commission for Labor Rights by Dean Hubbard

2003 May
~ Support Our Troops by Bringing THem Home Now! Urge a UN Negotiated Cease Fire
~ A View from US Labor Against the War by Amy Newell
~ Help Our Brothers and Sisters at Dish Network
~ New Mexico State Bar Employees File RC Petition with NLRB by Angela Cornell
~ Hoffman Plastic Compounds v. NLRB; Immigrant Workers: Preserving RIghts and Remedies by Amy Sugimori, Rebecca Smith, Ana Avendaño and Marielena Hincapie
~ Coca-Cola Human Rights Abuses In Colombia by Dan Kovalik

2002 October
~ AFL-CIO Executive Secretary Richard Trumka Links NLG and AFL-CIO Struggles for Economic Justce and Workers' Rights
~ Trumka - Labor Lawyer, Labor Leader by Joan Hill

2002 May
~ Workers' RIghts After 9-11: Who's Paying for Patriotism? by Fran Schreiberg
~ Bush Besieges Colombian Trade Unionists by Fred Hirsch
~ Holes In The Stone-Washed Safety Net - The Continuing Aftermath of NAFTA by David Kern
~ University Unionism and the Decline of Academic Freedom: NYU Charged with Illegal Denial of Tenure Against Pro-Union Professor by Nathan Newman
~ U.S./Cuban Labor Solidarity: What's in it for us? What's the Guild's role? by Dean Hubbard
~ Health Care Unions Organize Inter-American Conference on Privatization and Globalization by Dean Hubbard, Jose Matta and Luis Matos
~ Harvard's Trade Union Program: Labor Coalition Building by Priscilla Winslow
~ Contingent Workers Share Solutions by Bruce Goldstein

2001 October
~ Hamlet NC Tragedy - Struggle for Safety Continues by Anthony Prince
~ U.S. Union Activists Build Ties with Cuban Labor by Dean Hubbard
~ Senator Edward Kennedy and Rep. Howard Berman Introduce Bills on Immigration/Legalization for Farmworkers by Bruce Goldstein
~ Holding U.S. Corporations Accountable in the Global Economy by Al Meyerhoff
~ Lawsuit Forces Labor Secretary Chao to Issue 2001 Wage Rates for Ag Guestworkers by Bruce Goldstein
~ Whistleblower Victory: Schell v. City of Los Angeles
~ Bay Area NLG L&EC to Support Asian Immigrant Women Advocates by Nan Lashuay

2001 May
~ Organizing Immigrant Workers by Fran Schreiberg
~ Progressive Attoneys Join Together to Work for Fair Judiciary
~ Affirming the Status Quo: The Supreme Court's Latest Reckoning with Pre-Dispute Binding Arbitration of Individual Statutory Rights by Michael J. Quirk
~ NLG L&EC Organizes Second Delegation to Cuba by Tim Belcher
~ Whistleblower Book a Great Buy a review by Richard Renner

2000 November
~ Think there's no difference between Gore & Bush? Think again! 2000 election will affect us for generations by Fran Schreiberg
~ Mandatory Arbitration of Statutory Rights by Eileen Silverstein
~ California's Little Norris-LaGuardia Act - A Favoralbe Preliminary Report by Henry Willis
~ Another Strawberry Victory

2000 May
~ NLG L&EC Sponsors Visit to Cuba
~ New San Diego Clinic To Serve Workers' Employment Law Needs by Mika Spencer
~ Organizing Workers - Indonesia Realities by Paul Fileon
~ UFW Strawberry Victory as ALJ Splits Statewide Unit
~ AFL-CIO Calls for a New Immigration Policy
~ Guild Sugar Law Center Provides Valuable Assistance by David Santacroce

1999 October
~ Considering Electoral Work - Maximizing Our Advocacy by Fran Schreiberg
~ Building the Souther Labor Movement, One Worker at a Time by Elizabeth McLaughlin
~ Fighting for Fair Trade in Seattle
~ Working People's Electoral Politics at Work
~ Fighting for RIghts of Contingent Workers

1999 May
~ By What Authority? Curbing Coporate Abuse
~ Tosco Explosion: Who's to Blame? by Fran Schreiberg
~ La Lucha Continua - East Coast Farm Workers & Mushroom Workers Successful in Organizing by Arthur N. Read
~ Undocumented Workers are Employed Under NLRA by Wayson Chow and Mika Spencer
~ Farmworkers Face Serious Threats of New Bracero Program by Bruce Goldstein
~ Cuba 1999 - Compelling Contradictions by Dean Hubbard
~ Whistleblower Protection Available in Environmental by Richard R. Renner
~ Students Nationwide Rise in Protest Against Sweatshops by Derek B. Dorn