Labor
Hire the best, say Ohio trade unionists
April 16, 2004CLEVELAND – Hundreds of members of Ohio’s building trades unions will be telling the Ohio School Facilities Commission in Columbus April 22 to “Hire the Best!” by not taking the lowest and worst contract bids. At...
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Home health care workers seek justice
April 16, 2004NEW YORK – Though they care for the sick, injured and elderly, thousands of home health aides here don’t have any health insurance themselves. They are among the almost 2 million New Yorkers who are uninsured....
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As useful as teats on a boar
April 9, 2004Opinion Recently The New York Times reported a dispute at a meeting in France of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Nightmare on April 15
April 9, 2004Many years ago I heard the theory expressed that taxation was a new form of exploitation of the working class that had reached confiscatory levels. I never imagined that one day this would be the horrific...
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Weirton steelworkers accept new contract
April 9, 2004Union workers at the bankrupt Weirton Steel Corporation in Weirton, W.Va., voted 2,104-231 in favor of accepting a labor contract offered by the mill’s prospective buyer, ISG, according to a report from Associated Press. The five-year...
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