Labor
This strike belongs to all who believe in justice!
June 22, 2007CHICAGO — Four years after 150 employees walked off the job at the historic Congress Plaza Hotel to protest cuts in wages and health benefits, workers continue to picket, saying they are holding out for a...
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Ohio goes after prevailing wage crooks
June 15, 2007CLEVELAND — On June 4, Marc Dann, Ohio’s new attorney general, announced an enforcement program targeting contractors who violate Ohio’s prevailing wage law. “We’re going to aggressively pursue this strategy in the future,” Dann said in...
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Workers with rights, not guests who are slaves
June 15, 2007Growing up in western Texas as the daughter of cotton sharecroppers, I spent my summers weeding cotton, five days a week, 10 hours a day, in 95-degree heat. As grueling as this workload was, others had...
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Bush campaigns to revive immigration bill
June 15, 2007In his June 9 national radio address, President Bush strongly endorsed the “Grand Bargain” immigration bill, S 1348, that stalled in the Senate, June 7, when just 45 of a necessary 60 senators were ready to...
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Smithfield worker dies
June 8, 2007Smithfield Packing livestock worker Emmanuel McKoy, 27, died June 1 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Although the cause of his death has not been determined, McKoy struggled with Type 1 diabetes and experienced health problems from the...
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