Labor
Workers, not guests
March 2, 2007Ten days before Christmas, the Woodfin Suite Hotel in Emeryville, Calif., fired Luz Dominguez and 20 other housekeepers. Managers announced they’d received a letter from Social Security saying the numbers they’d given when they were originally...
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Freedoms road includes the right to organize
March 2, 2007The continuing effort by the world’s largest meatpacking giant to keep out a union has been transformed by its workers into a drive in Congress to streamline the way all American workers win the right to...
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Ford workers call for green jobs
March 2, 2007ST. PAUL, Minn. (PAI) — Minnesota’s United Auto Workers are taking their fight to save jobs at the St. Paul Ford plant to the state Capitol, where proposed legislation would require the company to maintain the...
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Workers Correspondence
March 2, 2007To: Union supporters of HR 676 single-payer health care Re: Reintroduction of HR 676 in the 110th CongressSeveral readers forwarded this communication. On Jan. 24, 2007, Congressman John Conyers reintroduced HR 676, the single-payer National Health...
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Kennedy challenges Smithfield, Homeland Security
February 23, 2007The firing of workers trying to unionize at the Smithfield meat packing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., has prompted Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security. The senator has urged...
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