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Letters

August 15, 2003

Time for a shorter workweek Over the past two decades, the productivity of labor, due to computer and robotic technology, has vastly increased while the income of workers has stagnated. So far, most of the benefits...

Editorials

August 15, 2003

Looting the treasury The Bush administration’s economic policies are tantamount to looting the national treasury. And that is not just our opinion, but what Nobel Prize winner and economist Prof. Akerlof said to the German magazine...

Vets in same boat as injured workers

August 15, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

Sick and injured war veterans and victims of industrial workplace accidents have a lot in common. Both are treated disgracefully.

Soldier Sal is safe so far

August 15, 2003

Sal, a young Texas soldier in Iraq, writes to let us know that he is OK. Hi Jim, Just a letter to let everyone know I am OK. Nothing bad happened. Before I left on the...

Wal-Mart campaign tops UFCW agenda

August 15, 2003

Organizing Wal-Mart, dealing with the crisis in U.S. health care, and defeating George Bush in 2004 were recurring themes in the international convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) held in San Francisco...