Labor

                
  • Dr. King showed worker rights are civil rights

    Dr. King showed worker rights are civil rights

    February 23, 2007

    The following is excerpted from the remarks of Roger Toussaint, president of New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100, on the occasion of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration, Jan. 15.Today is a special...

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  • Profits up, but Chrysler cuts

    Profits up, but Chrysler cuts

    February 23, 2007

    FENTON, Mo. — An autoworker who is a member of the Missouri Legislature says Chrysler’s announcement that it is gutting 1,300 jobs from its South Assembly Plant here has “more to do with the bargaining climate...

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  • Falsehoods about immigrant workers

    Falsehoods about immigrant workers

    February 16, 2007

    Historians call the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 a tragic part of our history. With this act, Chinese workers were denied citizenship. Despite the words on the Statue of Liberty and the principles of democracy, it...

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  • Black history events to honor union leader

    Black history events to honor union leader

    February 16, 2007

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Progressives in Connecticut will celebrate African American History Month by commemorating one of the state’s most outstanding fighters for economic and social justice and peace. Activists will come together to carry on...

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  • Time to pass Employee Free Choice

    Time to pass Employee Free Choice

    February 16, 2007 By Paul S. Kaczocha

    “I served my nation to protect the laws of our land, not companies like Smithfield that deprive us of those laws,” meatpacking worker Keith Ludlum told a packed congressional hearing last week.

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