Labor

Whole Foods: Fresh fruit, rotten benefits

April 10, 2003

NEW YORK – Over 300 United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) members and supporters, protesting Whole Foods’ anti-union policies, held a spirited rally here April 4 as part of a local effort to inform customers that...

Tent city set up to save hospital

April 4, 2003

LOS ANGELES – With chants of “Save Rancho” and “These cuts won’t heal,” over 150 community, labor and disabled activists, many in wheelchairs, marched in front of the Rancho Los Amigos Hospital administration building here recently...

Memphis 1968: We remember

April 3, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

An assassin’s bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city’s sanitation workers. (See related story below)

Dont spend a nickel on a Mt. Olive pickle

April 3, 2003

TOLEDO, Ohio – “Don’t spend a nickel on a Mt. Olive pickle!” shouted the crowd of over 400 people as they marched down Broadway Avenue here. Students, community members, and organized labor gathered to commemorate the...

Bush takes aim at overtime pay

April 3, 2003

Millions of American workers will be getting a shorter paycheck and a longer work week if the Bush administration’s proposed changes to Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) regulations are carried out. The new guidelines would enable...