Labor

                
  • Dead workers are not a business cost

    Dead workers are not a business cost

    September 15, 2006

    Our family was devastated when my brother, Gary Puleio, was killed at Meadville (Pa.) Redi-Mix Concrete in 2001. Gary had been employed there only three months as a cement truck driver. He fell 25 feet to...

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  • Conn. machinists rally for Ned Lamont

    Conn. machinists rally for Ned Lamont

    September 15, 2006

    EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — “This campaign has become a crusade for machinists all across America,” declared R. Thomas Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, at a Labor Day weekend rally here...

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  • Tentative pact reached in Detroit teachers strike

    Tentative pact reached in Detroit teachers strike

    September 15, 2006

    DETROIT — After 16 days on the picket line, the unity of 9,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 231 finally forced school officials to agree to a tentative pact potentially ending the strike here...

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  • Janitors speak out for better wages

    Janitors speak out for better wages

    September 13, 2006

    PHILADELPHIA - A spirited and militant group of Service Employee Union 32BJ members, their friends and supporters marched here to defend area standards for office cleaners on Aug. 31. Their message was to Arthur Johnson, who...

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  • Local union hosts Iraqi worker photo exhibit

    Local union hosts Iraqi worker photo exhibit

    September 8, 2006

    “You know longies here in L.A. or over there in Iraq are just working stiffs trying to do right by their families,” said Joe Kordich, retired longshore worker with Local 13 of the International Longshore Warehouse...

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