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The high cost of free trade Maytag workers face plant closing
November 14, 2003“NAFTA allowed Maytag to commit the premeditated murder of our community,” said Dave Bevard, a 30-year veteran of Maytag’s refrigerator plant in Galesburg, Ill. Trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NFTA) and the...
Read moreIs the draft on the drawing boards?
November 14, 2003Is a return to compulsory military service – the “draft” – on the Pentagon drawing boards?
Read moreVeterans Day vigils spotlight costs of war
November 14, 2003WASHINGTON – Veterans for Peace held a vigil outside Walter Reed U.S. Army Hospital on Veterans Day and reported to the media of their visit with wounded soldiers, demanding that all U.S. troops be brought home...
Read moreFree trade scam:Its bad for workers everywhere
November 14, 2003“We’ll be marching with truck drivers and electrical workers, nurses and teachers, health care workers and Teamsters, all kinds of working people,” Fred Frost, president of the South Florida AFL-CIO, told the Miami Herald. Frost was...
Read moreErgonomics: An issue whose time is still coming
November 13, 2003The fight for ergonomic protection for workers in Washington state experienced a tragic setback when anti-labor, anti-worker Proposition I–841 passed in this month’s elections.
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