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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.

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...

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...

Bush administration twists truth on jobs

November 13, 2003 By Art Perlo

Treasury Secretary John Snow is boasting about the prospects for the economy, and for job growth in particular. Pro-administration writers credit the Bush tax cuts, and say that a recovering economy will deprive the Democrats of...

Threatened by free trade Engineers need unions too

November 13, 2003

Workers’ Correspondence When I started out working as a mechanical engineer a bit over four decades ago, there was a widespread tendency for engineers to regard themselves as a special group above and unrelated to the...