Labor

Grassroots victories give hope for 2004

November 13, 2003

News Analysis Despite Republican claims of having locked up the South after winning governors’ races in Mississippi and Kentucky, the 2004 presidential race is far from over. In addition to polls reporting lack of confidence in...

Pratt & Whitney workers fight to save jobs

November 7, 2003

Workers’ correspondence International Association of Machinists sisters and brothers at the profitable United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt & Whitney plant in Connecticut are fighting hard for their jobs. On Oct. 3, materials workers at Pratt voted “no”...

City workers rally for justice

November 7, 2003

NEW YORK – This city’s workers have not had a raise in over two years and need one now to pay the rent and put food on the table, declared Lillian Roberts, executive director of American...

Victory for St. Louis grocery workers

November 7, 2003

ST. LOUIS – After 25 days of strikes and lockouts, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 655 and Schnuck’s, Dierbergs, and Shop ’n Save announced an agreement on wages and health care benefits covering...

Grocery jobs: Keep them union!

November 7, 2003 By Joseph Hancock

Workers’ Correspondence The cause of the supermarket strike is long-standing problems that have now reached the boiling point. I say this as someone who worked for Ralphs Supermarkets for 13 years in the service bakery and...