Labor

                
  • GOP demands tax payoff for minimum wage

    GOP demands tax payoff for minimum wage

    February 2, 2007

    Commentary Anyone who believed there was going to be a bipartisan effort in Congress to reflect the voters’ views got doused with a bucket of cold water last week when GOP senators tried to block a...

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  • Venezuelan Communists push workers councils

    Venezuelan Communists push workers councils

    February 2, 2007

    The Communist Party of Venezuela (CPV) is about to introduce a proposal that the National Assembly establish workers councils and include them under the new “Organic Law for Citizen Participation and People’s Power.” At a Caracas...

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  • Bush health care plan: Youre on your own

    Bush health care plan: Youre on your own

    February 2, 2007 By Susan Webb

    Health care advocates slammed President Bush’s latest health care proposals as free-market fantasy that would dismantle employer-provided health coverage, enrich insurance companies and worsen the nation’s health care crisis.

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  • Union blasts immigration raid at Smithfield

    Union blasts immigration raid at Smithfield

    February 2, 2007

    Instigated by a company hell-bent on keeping out a union, the U.S. government raided the world’s largest pork processing plant, Smithfield Packing, in Tar Heel, N.C., on Jan. 24. The United Food and Commercial Workers union...

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  • A destructive solution to Americas health care crisis

    A destructive solution to Americas health care crisis

    January 26, 2007

    Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has introduced legislation, the Healthy Americans Act (HAA), that purports to guarantee “universal, private health insurance for all Americans.” He has garnered support for this legislation from Andy Stern, president of SEIU...

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