Labor

                
  • UFCW nationalizes picket lines

    UFCW nationalizes picket lines

    November 27, 2003

    Union workers turned up the heat in the health care wars this week as striking grocery workers methodically advanced their campaign to “nationalize” their picket lines. Southern California Teamsters Union members at eight giant distribution centers...

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  • As thousands demonstrate: ‘Free trade’ deal stalls in Miami

    As thousands demonstrate: ‘Free trade’ deal stalls in Miami

    November 27, 2003

    MIAMI – While the Bush administration had hoped last week’s ministerial meeting here would pave the way for a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement in 2004, giving U.S. corporations a green light to...

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  • Tyson workers vow to keep up fight

    Tyson workers vow to keep up fight

    November 22, 2003 By Babette Grunow And Gary Grass

    “Another day longer, another day stronger.” That’s how striking Tyson Foods worker Sherri Anderson summed up the status of what is shaping up to be an epic labor battle. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney visited the picket...

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  • Boycott these turkeys!

    Boycott these turkeys!

    November 22, 2003

    Supermarket entrances up and down the Golden State were the focus of grocery worker strike support activities this week. Three thousand longshoremen held a work stop meeting during a rally in front of the Albertsons store...

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  • Marchers say FTAA  No Way!

    Marchers say FTAA No Way!

    November 22, 2003

    MIAMI – As thousands of union members, environmental and human rights activists massed here to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit, hundreds of community activists from low-income neighborhoods, immigrants and farm workers completed...

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