Labor

                
  • Students sit in for sweatshop-free clothes

    Students sit in for sweatshop-free clothes

    April 13, 2007

    “We want to be proud of wearing our university apparel,” said Aria Everts, a University of Michigan student who was arrested April 3 after staging an eight-hour sit-in at the college president’s office. Everts was protesting...

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  • The blessing of unity: Miners stand together at Foundation Coal

    The blessing of unity: Miners stand together at Foundation Coal

    April 13, 2007

    WAYNESBURG, Pa. — The banner on the stage declared, “One union, One contract, No exceptions.” Hand-lettered picket signs proclaiming, “We made the profits, where’s our share?” were held high by over 1,800 members of the United...

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  • Texas teachers score gains

    Texas teachers score gains

    April 11, 2007

    Texas House Democrats were backslapping and praising themselves for a job well done as public education gains were realized in the 80th Texas legislature this spring. They won pay raises, stopped the nation’s largest “merit-pay” scam...

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  • EDITORIAL: Lessons from Circuit City

    EDITORIAL: Lessons from Circuit City

    April 6, 2007

    Last week Circuit City announced layoffs of 3,400 “high paid” employees, saying it would replace them with lower-wage workers. It’s yet another example of the cruelty of a profit-driven, corporate-dominated system. Circuit City says it had...

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  • Laundry strike: Everybody goes out

    Laundry strike: Everybody goes out

    April 6, 2007 By Nell Geiser And Jenny Carson

    A front-page photograph in the Oct. 26, 1936, edition of the Daily News captured the defiant, young face of Jessie Taft as she stood chained to the balcony of a New York City hotel.

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