Labor

                
  • Solidarity grows for fired roofers

    Solidarity grows for fired roofers

    November 13, 2003

    TUCSON – Union and community supporters reacted with anger when they heard of Metric Roofing’s latest attack on workers and their right to organize. Metric Roofing has fired or suspended six of the seven Roofers Union...

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  • Stop the war on retirees

    Stop the war on retirees

    November 13, 2003

    Workers’ correspondence It struck like a knife to the gut when an old steelworker friend recently contacted me with an amazing story. According to my friend, the Pension Benefits Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) had just sent letters...

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  • Bush administration twists truth on jobs

    Bush administration twists truth on jobs

    November 13, 2003 By Art Perlo

    Treasury Secretary John Snow is boasting about the prospects for the economy, and for job growth in particular. Pro-administration writers credit the Bush tax cuts, and say that a recovering economy will deprive the Democrats of...

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  • Threatened by free trade  Engineers need unions too

    Threatened by free trade Engineers need unions too

    November 13, 2003

    Workers’ Correspondence When I started out working as a mechanical engineer a bit over four decades ago, there was a widespread tendency for engineers to regard themselves as a special group above and unrelated to the...

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  • Working Families victory in NYC vote

    Working Families victory in NYC vote

    November 13, 2003

    NEW YORK – History was made here on Nov. 4 as Letitia James running on the Working Families Party line, swept the polls in a landslide as the first third-party candidate to be elected to City...

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