Labor

                
  • CBTU stays in the forefront

    CBTU stays in the forefront

    May 15, 2003

    “The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) has to be the lightning rod to mobilize labor to formulate actions to turn things around,” stated Lew Moye, chairman of the organization’s St. Louis chapter. Moye expects St....

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  • Fleecing the family

    Fleecing the family

    May 9, 2003

    Opinion Boy, there is no shortage of creatively terrible ideas from the Republican Party these days. Those folks are just full of notions about how to make people’s lives worse – one horrible idea after another...

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  • May Day around the world

    May Day around the world

    May 9, 2003

    Iraq: Iraqi communists marked May Day for the first time in many decades, marching in central Baghdad under giant banners calling for security, democracy and peace in their country. The demonstration, which started in historic Fardus...

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  • A legacy and a pledge

    A legacy and a pledge

    May 9, 2003

    May 1 is a symbolic day of struggle and international solidarity among all the workers of the world. It is also the day I was born. On a May Day morning, 26 years ago, my parents,...

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  • Cleveland fights for healthcare

    Cleveland fights for healthcare

    May 9, 2003

    CLEVELAND – The battle for affordable healthcare was the central theme of this year’s May Day event here, where, for the second year in a row, the Cleveland AFL-CIO officially observed this historic working-class holiday. For...

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