Labor

                
  • Lorenzo and Anita Torrez honored at CPUSA meeting

    Lorenzo and Anita Torrez honored at CPUSA meeting

    July 4, 2003

    In an emotional program that frequently brought audience members to their feet and provoked shouts of “Si, se puede!”, Anita and Lorenzo Torrez, two participants in the historic filming of Salt of the Earth, were honored...

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  • Teamsters join Seamsters to clean up laundry

    Teamsters join Seamsters to clean up laundry

    July 4, 2003

    Forming a landmark partnership, two international unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) announced a joint effort to bring safe working conditions, dignity, and a decent standard of...

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  • Workers tell Bush: Hands off overtime

    Workers tell Bush: Hands off overtime

    July 4, 2003

    WASHINGTON – Hundreds of angry workers from across the nation picketed the U.S. Labor Department June 30 to protest a new Bush administration regulation that could terminate overtime pay for eight million workers. The Labor Department...

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  • Latin America fights neolibralism

    Latin America fights neolibralism

    July 1, 2003

    When the Peruvian trade union movement organized demonstrations this month in support of the public school teachers’ strike and against the government-imposed State of Emergency, the demonstrations turned into protests against President Alejandro Toledo’s neoliberal economic...

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  • Starbucks hit for Cintas contract

    Starbucks hit for Cintas contract

    July 1, 2003

    Across the country last week, upscale coffee company Starbucks felt the heat for contracting with union-buster Cintas Corp. to launder aprons, mats and linens. Cintas has been cited repeatedly for breaking the law by discriminating, dumping...

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