Labor
Iraqs workers face long road
February 6, 2004Opinion 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...
Read moreTexas grocery worker: Fighting to keep our heads up
February 6, 2004Here 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...
Read moreTexas labor pledges to do more in 2004
February 6, 2004DALLAS – 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...
Read moreGrocery unions call for arbitration
February 6, 2004Presidents 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...
Read moreThe struggle for the right to organize a union
January 30, 2004While 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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