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  • Veterans Day vigils spotlight costs of war

    Veterans Day vigils spotlight costs of war

    November 14, 2003

    WASHINGTON – 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...

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  • Free trade scam:Its bad for workers everywhere

    Free 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...

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  • Ergonomics: An issue whose time is still coming

    Ergonomics: An issue whose time is still coming

    November 13, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

    The 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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  • Solidarity grows for fired roofers

    Solidarity grows for fired roofers

    November 13, 2003

    TUCSON – Union and community supporters reacted with anger when they heard of Metric Roofing’s latest attack on workers and their right to organize. Metric Roofing has fired or suspended six of the seven Roofers Union...

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  • Stop the war on retirees

    Stop the war on retirees

    November 13, 2003

    Workers’ correspondence It struck like a knife to the gut when an old steelworker friend recently contacted me with an amazing story. According to my friend, the Pension Benefits Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) had just sent letters...

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