Labor

                
  • Grocery unions call for arbitration

    Grocery unions call for arbitration

    February 6, 2004 By Joseph Hancock

    Presidents of the seven locals of striking and locked out Southern California grocery workers appeared in simultaneous press conferences in Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Palm Desert and San Diego on Feb. 4 making public a joint letter...

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  • The struggle for the right to organize a union

    The struggle for the right to organize a union

    January 30, 2004

    While 45 percent of U.S. workers express the desire to have a union, only 13 percent have one. Using bold, repressive and mostly illegal methods, corporate America has held new organizing to a tiny trickle as...

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  • Labor leads coalition to victory over corporate drug lords

    Labor leads coalition to victory over corporate drug lords

    January 30, 2004

    CLEVELAND – Back in the year 2000, few people in Ohio believed a prescription drug bill with real benefits could be passed, not with a right-wing controlled State Legislature (some of whom call themselves the “caveman...

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  • Solidarity with Utah miners

    Solidarity with Utah miners

    January 30, 2004

    SAN FRANCISCO – In Huntington, Utah, coal miners at Co-Op Mines make $5.25 to $7 an hour, a third of the average wage in the industry. Seventy-five of the workers, who are almost all immigrants from...

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  • THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    THIS WEEK IN LABOR

    January 30, 2004

    Ohio Steelworkers sign contract Steelworkers at AK Steel Corporation ended 52 months without a collective bargaining agreement Jan. 26 with the signing of a final contract settlement with the company formerly known as Armco. That period...

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