Labor

                
  • Parents, teachers and students unite to fight cuts

    Parents, teachers and students unite to fight cuts

    March 28, 2008

    New York — Parents, students, teachers and administrators rallied at City Hall March 20 to protest state and city budget cuts to schools. Despite a driving rain, over 10,000 people turned out for the rally called...

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  • Labor backs call by medical students for universal health care

    Labor backs call by medical students for universal health care

    March 28, 2008 By James Thompson

    HOUSTON — About 1,000 medical students and their supporters rallied here at city hall March 14 to demand healthcare for all. The event was organized by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) as part of its...

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  • American Axle strikers solid

    American Axle strikers solid

    March 21, 2008

    Inside UAW Local 235 in Hamtramck, across the street from the largest of the struck American Axle plants, Ray Wood, President of UAW Local 14 at the GM powertrain in Toledo was speaking to Local President...

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  • Labor propels Kucinich to big win

    Labor propels Kucinich to big win

    March 15, 2008

    CLEVELAND — Labor and its progressive allies scored a major victory in the Democratic primary here March 4 when Congressman Dennis Kucinich beat back a heavily financed effort to take his seat. Kucinich won in a...

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  • Workers drown in pink slip flood

    Workers drown in pink slip flood

    March 15, 2008

    Only a week after releasing the most dismal consumer spending figures in eight years, the government said, March 7, that 63,000 workers lost their jobs in February — another sure sign that the economy is in...

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