Labor

Protesters demand equal opportunity

January 7, 2003

PHILADELPHIA – Nearly 40 angry protesters attended a City Council meeting here Dec. 12 to demand inclusion of African Americans, Latinos and women in public works construction projects. Seeing that they were not going to be...

A New Years message from the World Federationof Trade Unions

January 7, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

As a New Year dawns the World Federation of Trade Unions conveys Its good wishes and solidarity greetings to working people the world over, their trade unions and all the men, women and children of our...

Auto workers elect new leader

June 7, 2002 By Fred Gaboury

In his final State of the Union address, outgoing United Auto Workers (UAW) President Stephen P. Yokich called on UAW members to get actively involved in union organizing campaigns and political action and to build on...

Remembering Carter G. Woodson

February 1, 2002 By Libero Della Piana

Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926 and chose to celebrate it the second week of February because it marks the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two men who left an indelible...