Exile on 48th Street

Attorney General John Cornyn files a lawsuit against the Rio Motel, a bane to the neighbors of this North Central Austin establishment.

"...didn't even want in their neighborhood -- the day labor operation that just moved in at 50th and I-35..."

Sept. 17, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Work in Progress

Where's Solomon When We Need Him?

"...ANC is awarded a chance to solve the day labor dilemma, the task will be daunting. But some feel..."

May 28, 1999 News Column

A Cookbook a Day Keeps the Munchies at Bay

Texas Book Festival showcases seven food books from around the world

"...Shuk is organized into chapters highlighting a particular Israeli culinary passion. There's..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

PAC by Popular Demand

Critics Say ALLC's Reforms Won't Stem the Tide of Big Money

"...Currently, general purpose PACs such as BM&OH Electo are organized under state statute and report their contributions and expenditures..."

Oct. 31, 1997 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Point Austin: Memo to Cap Metro

Stop Union-busting, or Take a Hike

"...have been officially sitting on their hands while their labor contract negotiators, led by a self-proclaimed union-busting lawyer from..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Column by Michael King

A Battle on the Shuttle

For aggrieved UT drivers, the buck stops at Capital Metro

"...Cordie Ray, the basis for the ongoing and fractious labor dispute between the shuttle drivers and Capital Metro subcontractor..."

May 21, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Flew the KOOP

Pacifica Network Pulls Out of Local Radio Cooperative

"...dispute resulted in KOOP airing a disclaimer about the labor conflicts before and after each broadcast of Pacifica Network..."

Oct. 24, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

McLeese's Pieces

Statesman Columnist Vents Spleen on Greens

"...so, in the form of organizations such as People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER) and..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Workers of the World, United in Time

UT Lecturer Anne Lewis on her new doc, A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas)

"...an Uprising (in Texas) is the first to explore labor in the Lone Star State. The documentary, which screens..."

May 4, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

True Love and Lawsuits in the Wedding Capital of Texas

'Til death do us party

"...Day weekend 2015. Then, during a wedding the following Labor Day, the bride and groom arrived via helicopter, which..."

April 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger

Capital Metro Strike Threat Looms

Despite citizen efforts to intervene, negotiations have not progressed

"...Monday meeting, urging the board to resolve the ongoing labor dispute between its largest contractor, StarTran, and Amalgamated Transit..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Human Rights Are Indivisible

International Human Rights Day activities in Austin strung together workers' rights, social services, and Texas' awful death penalty.

"...numbers amplified by the car horns offered in solidarity, organized by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, gathered..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Palmer Picket Persists

"...about as close to a state of war between labor and management as you can get without an actual..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Defending the death penalty, the new Gov, the schools, and all that Jazz.

"...to sit in traffic, the Austin community should be organized around the idea of building people capital through improved..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Column

Salt of the Earth

Local activists remember Cesar Chavez on the seventh anniversary of his death.

"...the end, may not have turned Texas into a labor-friendly state, his influences here still run deep. The farmworkers'..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Paul Ciavarri

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...opening Friday, April 9, at the Dobie Theatre. --A.S. Laboring Over Move..."

April 9, 1999 News Feature

YouTube Music Workers Call Strike Against Local Contractor

Cognizant's return-to-office order viewed as possible union-busting tactic

"...The AWU filed an unfair labor practice claim with the National Labor Relations Board in..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Want to Strike? Ask a Sex Worker for Advice.

Artist and activist Lena Chen explains how the sex workers' rights movement is lifting up all workers

"...class consciousness has emerged. Leading the way in the labor rights movement is a group of workers who have..."

March 12, 2021 Features Feature by James Scott

Police Oversight: Starting From Scratch

Farah Muscadin’s work in progress

"...for reform activists up to the dais. So when labor negotiators went into 2017 looking for a five-year deal,..."

Sept. 14, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Point Austin: They Died in Your City

Austin is built by workers subject to institutionalized injustice

"...writing about migrant farmworkers subject to casual exploitation as laborers and arbitrary deportation as "illegals." Farmworkers, like those later..."

June 19, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...in his position as chair of the city's Day Labor Community Advisory Committee and in his work for Texas..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

"...will be presented next Wednesday. The draft is a collaborative effort involving a broad range of stakeholders across Travis..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Low wages, sprawl among the concerns of package detractors

"...six propositions that make up the package. For Austin's labor community, the issue is wages for the sheet-metal workers,..."

Aug. 13, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Firefighters Want to Bargain

Austin Firefighters bring collective bargaining to the May 15 ballot

"...conditions of employment. It is akin to the meet-and-confer labor-negotiation process already in use, but with several key differences...."

April 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Home-Grown Workers

Is Austin's Job Boom Trickling Down to the People?

"...Eastside activist Susana Almanza, director of People Organized in Defense of Earth and Its Resources (PODER), says..."

March 27, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

A Summer of Protests to Reclaim Power From the Police

"Whose streets? Our streets."

"...declared with flat certainty that the Target looting was organized by "Antifa," saying, "There is no doubt there is..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...on Carole after newspapers reported that she uses state labor (comptroller staff) to perform her campaign work, instead of..."

Aug. 18, 2006 News Feature

Letters at 3AM

Cry over the election if you must, but don't let the bastards sap your vitality. American progressives started seriously mass-scale organizing only about a year ago, and in just one year we came within reach of victory.

"...Joe Hill was a labor organizer executed on trumped-up charges in Utah in 1915...."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Organized through Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish congregations, the Industrial Areas Foundation's Saturday gathering was not unlike a secular church service.

"...Organized through Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish congregations, the statewide organization's..."

Sept. 29, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

June 18, 1996: Aguascalientes in La Realidad, Chiapas

"...as follows: Is it true that the EZLN is organized based on traditional indigenous community democracy, and what does..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature

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