Labor
‘No justice, no pizza!’ protestors tell Pizza Hut
July 12, 2009CHICAGO -- “I have spent my whole life – since I was 17 years old – working at Pizza Hut. Instead of respecting my hard work, Pizza Hut has thrown me on the street with nothing,”...
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Dont mourn, organize!
July 11, 2009News Analysis The famous Joe Hill quote, “Don’t mourn, organize!” is being taken to heart, it seems, on a regular basis these days. Three things happened in the last few months that were not so good....
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He taketh from the mine owners and he giveth to the miners
July 11, 2009For the eight long years of the Bush administration the government’s Mine, Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) was run by representatives of the people who own the mines. On a full time basis a man named...
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Making it harder to shut down plants
July 11, 2009A bipartisan group of legislators has introduced a bill to make it tougher for companies to pull the rug out from under workers by shutting down plants. They say that the country’s 21-year- old plant closing...
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The 60th Senator puts workers first
July 11, 2009On his first day in office, July 7, Minnesota’s new Democratic senator, Al Franken, showed whose side he is on. He signed on to his first bill, the Employee Free Choice Act and, in so doing,...
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