Labor

Fighting to protect what we have

May 7, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

The decades’ long fight by U.S. workers for an eight-hour day began in earnest with strikes and parades on May 1, 1886, and culminated in victory more than 50 years later with enactment of the Fair...

UAW: Universal health care now

May 7, 2003

DETROIT – As contract talks between 300,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members and the Big Three automakers are set to begin in July, three pressing issues are on the minds of autoworkers: health care, pensions, and...

Unions march for health care in Philly

May 7, 2003

PHILADELPHIA – A cold wind and April showers failed to dampen the spirits of Service Employees Local 36 and Healthcare and Hospital Workers Union Local 1199C and their supporters who participated in the Family March for...

Steelworkers win humane merger

May 7, 2003

The future of 8,600 steelworker families and tens of thousands of retirees at National Steel was resolved this week. Amid the shouts of hundreds of steelworkers ringing the Federal Courthouse in Chicago and hoisting their signs,...

Dead and injured remembered in Texas

May 7, 2003

TYLER, Texas – On April 26, a bell tolled here for workers who had been killed on the job during the past year. Leaders of the United Steel Workers of America (USWA) read a name, then...