Labor
Twin Cities bus drivers fight to save health care
April 9, 2004A flurry of strike support activities marked the fifth week of the strike of 2,200 Minneapolis and St. Paul bus drivers, mechanics, and clerical workers. The members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 walked off the...
Read moreTeachers and their union fight for public education
April 2, 2004An interview with Chicago Teachers Union President Deborah Lynch The most important thing we can do to reverse NCLB is defeat Bush in November.
Read moreI didnt know I could be sold!
April 2, 2004Workers’ Correspondence I am one of 150 employees of the Home Care Network of Chicago’s Rush Hospital who were literally sold March 23 to Patient Care, a giant for-profit home-care company with 6,000 employees nationwide. Workers...
Read moreStudents demand justice for immigrant janitors
April 2, 2004ST. LOUIS – Students at Washington University here are demanding the return of 36 Nicaraguan custodial and maintenance workers who were forced to leave the country after their contract with G&G Building Services was terminated in...
Read moreSo, where did Wal-Mart come from?
April 2, 2004An earlier column opened our continuing look into Wal-Mart’s pole vault from a one-store operation in 1962 to the world’s largest corporation.
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