Labor

Unemployed to Congress: Give us our jobless pay

May 16, 2003

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of jobless workers picketed the Labor Department and then marched to Capitol Hill on May 13 to demand that Congress approve another 26-week extension in unemployment compensation for 4.5 million workers who are...

CBTU stays in the forefront

May 15, 2003

“The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) has to be the lightning rod to mobilize labor to formulate actions to turn things around,” stated Lew Moye, chairman of the organization’s St. Louis chapter. Moye expects St....

Fleecing the family

May 9, 2003

Opinion Boy, there is no shortage of creatively terrible ideas from the Republican Party these days. Those folks are just full of notions about how to make people’s lives worse – one horrible idea after another...

May Day around the world

May 9, 2003

Iraq: Iraqi communists marked May Day for the first time in many decades, marching in central Baghdad under giant banners calling for security, democracy and peace in their country. The demonstration, which started in historic Fardus...

A legacy and a pledge

May 9, 2003

May 1 is a symbolic day of struggle and international solidarity among all the workers of the world. It is also the day I was born. On a May Day morning, 26 years ago, my parents,...