Labor

                
  • Iraqs workers face long road

    Iraqs workers face long road

    February 6, 2004

    Opinion There has been a long history of trade union struggle in Iraq against colonialism and for national independence. Often, it has been a struggle simply for survival. When the monarchy was overthrown in the revolution...

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  • Texas grocery worker: Fighting to keep our heads up

    Texas grocery worker: Fighting to keep our heads up

    February 6, 2004

    Here in my section of Texas, grocery store workers like us are fighting to keep our heads up. As far as California is concerned, we haven’t really been able to do much because there is a...

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  • Texas labor pledges to do more in 2004

    Texas labor pledges to do more in 2004

    February 6, 2004

    DALLAS – More than 400 delegates to the Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education convention last week vowed to make their number one priority the re-election of four Texas congressman whose districts were gerrymandered. They also...

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  • 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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