Labor

Nurses take to streets for union, patient rights

July 14, 2006

Bush labor board poised to deny union rights to millions of workersOAKLAND, Calif. — More than 700 nurses and their supporters gathered in downtown Oakland July 11 to protest a forthcoming National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...

The art of labor

July 7, 2006

ART REVIEW LOS ANGELES — “At Work” is an artistic chronicle of labor in California, not a dead past, but a living history that continues to evolve and grow. To make its point, the exhibit presents...

Houston bakers win union

July 7, 2006

Workers’ Correspondence The labor upsurge sweeping the U.S. and the world has not left Houston behind. On June 30 at about midnight, union representative Cesar Calderon announced that the Fiesta Mart Inc. bakery commissary workers here...

Protesters to Bush, Talent: Show us the raise!

July 7, 2006

ST. LOUIS — Over 600 trade unionists, community activists, peace activists and students protested President Bush’s visit here June 28. Bush was in town for a $2,000-a-plate fund-raiser for right-wing Missouri Sen. Jim Talent, who faces...

Black History reprint: Working-class roots of Bill Withers

June 30, 2006 By World Combined Sources

You might be a Bill Withers fan without realizing it. If you ever grooved to Will Smith’s “Just the Two of Us,” sang along with “Lean On Me” or thought to yourself, “Ain’t No Sunshine” when...