Labor

                
  • Long denied rights, domestic workers find their voices

    Long denied rights, domestic workers find their voices

    June 11, 2008

    WEST MILFORD, N.J. — She came from Guatemala and landed a job as a live-in housekeeper for a family here. Her workday started at 5:30 a.m. and ended at midnight, seven days a week. She cooked,...

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  • Fast-buck construction behind crane disaster

    Fast-buck construction behind crane disaster

    June 7, 2008

    NEW YORK — A crane collapse here May 30, killing two construction workers, brought the total of construction-related deaths in the city since January to 19. There have been 31 deaths of construction workers on the...

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  • Farmworkers win yearlong battle with Burger King

    Farmworkers win yearlong battle with Burger King

    June 6, 2008

    Immokalee farmworkers celebrated a landmark agreement late last month, after Burger King agreed to pay them a penny more for every pound of tomatoes they pick, to improve their working conditions and to set up a...

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  • Black trade unionists gear up for election

    Black trade unionists gear up for election

    June 1, 2008

    ST. LOUIS — Barack Obama, in a telephone hook-up May 22, welcomed the 37th annual gathering of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists here by declaring, “We need to reward labor and hard work with a...

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  • Migrant workers in Greece wage historic strike

    Migrant workers in Greece wage historic strike

    May 29, 2008

    ATHENS — Migrant workers laboring in the strawberry fields of Nea Manolada, in Greece’s southern Peloponnese region, where 90 percent of the country’s strawberry production is concentrated, waged a historic strike last month that will pave...

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