Labor

                
  • Housing costs: Why cant union workers live in NYC?

    Housing costs: Why cant union workers live in NYC?

    December 8, 2006

    Workers’ CorrespondenceNew York City’s rapidly increasing cost of living makes residency within its five boroughs unaffordable. During recent contract negotiations between the city and AFSCME DC 37 moves were made toward giving public workers the right...

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  • Coal miners still await action for safe mines

    Coal miners still await action for safe mines

    December 8, 2006

    PITTSBURGH — Mining is a basic industry, not given to fluff or mounds of paper. Despite the history-making call by West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin to halt coal production in the state in the wake of...

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  • Labor-backed candidate battles DeLay crony in southwest Texas

    Labor-backed candidate battles DeLay crony in southwest Texas

    December 8, 2006

    News Analysis The race for the 23rd Congressional District Seat is as hot as a San Antonio jalapeño pepper. Labor-backed Democrat Ciro Rodriguez is pitted in a Dec. 12 runoff election against Bush Republican Henry Bonilla,...

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  • Oakland Airport workers rally for union rights

    Oakland Airport workers rally for union rights

    December 2, 2006

    OAKLAND, Calif. — In a pre-Thanksgiving outpouring of solidarity, over 200 union and community activists gathered at Oakland International Airport Nov. 22 to demand union rights and fair treatment for workers who provide Southwest Airlines passengers...

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  • Play reveals struggles of South Asian women

    Play reveals struggles of South Asian women

    December 1, 2006 By Norman Markowitz

    NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In response to Eve Enseler’s feminist “Vagina Monologues,” a series of theatrical vignettes on the theme of contemporary women’s gender and social oppression, South Asian Sisters, a California-based group, developed “Yoni Ki...

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