Labor
Ohio goes after prevailing wage crooks
June 15, 2007CLEVELAND — On June 4, Marc Dann, Ohio’s new attorney general, announced an enforcement program targeting contractors who violate Ohio’s prevailing wage law. “We’re going to aggressively pursue this strategy in the future,” Dann said in...
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Workers with rights, not guests who are slaves
June 15, 2007Growing up in western Texas as the daughter of cotton sharecroppers, I spent my summers weeding cotton, five days a week, 10 hours a day, in 95-degree heat. As grueling as this workload was, others had...
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Bush campaigns to revive immigration bill
June 15, 2007In his June 9 national radio address, President Bush strongly endorsed the “Grand Bargain” immigration bill, S 1348, that stalled in the Senate, June 7, when just 45 of a necessary 60 senators were ready to...
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Smithfield worker dies
June 8, 2007Smithfield Packing livestock worker Emmanuel McKoy, 27, died June 1 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Although the cause of his death has not been determined, McKoy struggled with Type 1 diabetes and experienced health problems from the...
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Buried alive: a terrible way to die
June 8, 2007Workers’ Correspondence Being buried alive is a terrible way to die. If you are working in a trench and it caves in with just your head sticking out it makes great news. The drama of the...
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