Dick Meister
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dick Meister
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U.S.
Cesar Chavez: A true American hero
March 31, 2012It's Cesar Chavez Day, proclaimed byPresident Obama and observed throughout the country on the 85th birth date of the late founder of the United Farm Workers union
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Labor
The IWW legacy
March 1, 2012Occupy Wall Street and the other anti-capitalist forces could find no greater inspiration than the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Labor
The farm workers’ Filipino-American champion
February 23, 2012It's well past time we celebrated the life of probably the most important of the other leaders who played a major role in winning union rights for farm workers.
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Labor
Eugene Debs: March together, vote together, fight together
October 17, 2011Union organizer and strike leader, spellbinding orator, founder of the Socialist Party of America, five times a candidate for president, Eugene Debs was all that and more.
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Opinion
FAA shutdown and labor’s unhappy anniversary
August 8, 2011It was 30 years ago this month that Ronald Reagan struck the blow that sent the American labor movement tumbling into a decline it's still struggling to reverse.
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Opinion
Paid sick leave good for us all
June 27, 2011More than 40 percent of private sector workers do not have paid sick days they could use to recover from contagious illnesses.
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Opinion
Minimum wage is a poverty wage
June 3, 2011Imagine trying to live on $7.25 an hour. Even if you managed to work full eight-hour days, you'd be making only about $58 a day, $290 a week.
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U.S.
A Memorial Day massacre
May 26, 2011The film was an on-the-scene report of what historians call "The Memorial Day Massacre," filmed by Paramount Pictures as it happened in Chicago in May 1937.
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