Labor
Reality TV producers need a reality check
May 18, 2007Union busting is not new. Corporations with enough money and inclination have employed many dirty tactics to break a union organizing campaign. However, the tactics being waged against television writers fighting for benefits and membership in...
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There comes a time
May 18, 2007Before the ’06 elections, more than a few skeptical voices asked what substantial progress could be achieved through the peoples’ massive get-out-the-vote campaign. We had tried before and failed. Yet after the ballots were counted, even...
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EDITORIAL: Let the workers beware
May 18, 2007With the purchase this week of Chrysler Group by Cerberus Capital Management, the proverb “Let the buyer beware” should be replaced with one that reads, “Let the workers beware.” The fact that Cerberus is run by...
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Art Shields: Labor’s great reporter
May 18, 2007Art Shields was the Daily Worker’s greatest labor reporter. I got to know Art and his wife Esther, herself a labor journalist, soon after I joined the staff of the Worker in January 1967. Art helped...
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Sago Mine families slam govt findings
May 18, 2007PITTSBURGH — “I can’t tell where the coal company ends and MSHA begins,” Deborah Hamner told the Charleston Gazette after a five-hour meeting with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration in which the agency released...
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