Labor

Globalization and women workers

March 10, 2006

Is the “globalization” that George Bush supports good or, at least, inevitable, as people from the capitalist class claim? And what impact has it had on women workers? Tuberculosis and malnutrition are global, and becoming more...

98.6 a healthy number

March 3, 2006

Ninety-eight point six is a symbol of good health and that’s the percent of members of Change to Win unions in California whose locals have submitted solidarity charters and are now considered full members of the...

The World of Peggy Lipschutz: Women, workers, angels soul of her purposeful art

March 3, 2006 By Susan Webb

Peggy Lipschutz, 87, picked up a small brush and eyed an unfinished painting. She added a dab of color to the figure of an older woman sitting in thought, with an angel in the background.

Wal-Mart and Henry Ford

March 3, 2006 By Art Perlo

Wal-Mart is known for the huge profits it has accumulated for the Walton family and its Wall Street backers. It is also known for low pay and savage opposition to workers’ rights.

THISWEEKINLABOR

March 3, 2006

Bridgestone/Firestone blocks Steelworker solidarity Local management of a Bridgestone Firestone plant in LaVergne, Tenn., blocked the local union from making a plant gate collection to help struggling rubber farm workers in Liberia. United Steelworkers Local 1055,...