Labor
There are no rights without organization
March 23, 2007The Portland (Maine) Press Herald in a recent editorial claims that the “Employee Free Choice Act opens the door to coercion.” The act, recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, with the support of Maine’s...
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Guest workers fired after protesting slave conditions
March 23, 2007Hundreds of guest workers from India are protesting conditions in a Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard that immigrant rights activists compare to slavery. Many of the workers gathered in a church on March 11 in this Gulf Coast...
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Hundreds rally for jailed New Bedford workers
March 23, 2007NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Hundreds of people from Massachusetts and Rhode Island rallied here March 17 in support of 361 undocumented workers who were arrested in a government raid earlier this month at a New Bedford...
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Union: Sago miners did not have to die
March 23, 2007Standing with the West Virginia congressional delegation and before the family of deceased Sago miner Jim Bennett, United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts and Secretary Treasurer Daniel Kane charged, “This tragedy was preventable and should have...
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Continuing Crystal Eastmans work
March 16, 2007Workers Memorial Day is a day to remember those who have been injured or died on the job, and to renew the fight for safe workplaces. This year the Allegheny County Labor Council, in Pittsburgh, Pa.,...
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