Labor
Gary teachers win nine-day strike
September 8, 2006GARY, Ind. — Meeting at the city’s largest high school on Sept. 1, 1,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 4 loudly and unanimously approved a new one-year contract that everyone agreed was a tremendous...
Read moreLatest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers
September 8, 2006For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.
Read moreStandoff continues in Oaxaca, Mexico
September 7, 2006After a brutal police attack against a radio and television station, a tense standoff continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where striking teachers and popular organizations are demanding that right-wing Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz...
Read moreNeed protection from unions? Bush Department of Labor races to rescue
September 1, 2006Anyone who feels that getting protection from their employers is taking away their “rights” will be relieved to learn that the United States Department of Labor, George W. Bush in charge, is racing to the rescue....
Read moreClass struggle is a fact, not a theory
September 1, 2006Let me make something perfectly clear up front. Along with some powerful disagreements, I have a great deal of respect for Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees union. He and his union have made and...
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