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The struggle for the right to organize a union

January 30, 2004

While 45 percent of U.S. workers express the desire to have a union, only 13 percent have one. Using bold, repressive and mostly illegal methods, corporate America has held new organizing to a tiny trickle as...

Letters

January 30, 2004

Illegal detentions Conceivably, the United States government, by holding prisoners incommunicado at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba, has relinquished legal responsibility for due process according to law. With evidence that most detainees may not know the...

Editorials

January 30, 2004

Liar, liar Where is the outrage? Where are the calls for a special prosecutor? The current president, and all of his men and women, have perpetrated a colossal fraud. They told lie after lie to justify...

Labor leads coalition to victory over corporate drug lords

January 30, 2004

CLEVELAND – Back in the year 2000, few people in Ohio believed a prescription drug bill with real benefits could be passed, not with a right-wing controlled State Legislature (some of whom call themselves the “caveman...

White House to control health alerts

January 30, 2004

How and what Americans are told about public health emergencies would be controlled by the White House, not by the agencies with the medical or scientific expertise to handle these crises, under a new plan proposed...