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Unionists launch drive to win White House

May 23, 2003

DES MOINES – Nearly 1,000 union leaders and activists from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees got a close-up look at the Democratic presidential candidates at the union’s first-time Presidential Town Hall here...

Eight days in May: Birmingham and the struggle for civil rights

May 22, 2003 By Fred Gaboury

The eight days between May 2 and May 10, 1963, when thousands of school children in Birmingham, Ala., defied the fire hoses and police dogs of Eugene “Bull” Connor, marked a turning point in the civil...

Defending the right to organize

May 22, 2003

CHICAGO – “The NLRB is a meat-grinder,” said AFL-CIO Director of Organizing Stuart Acuff, “and most workers who enter into it are ground up into sausage.” Acuff was one of a trio of national labor leaders...

West Coast Longshore maps fightback

May 22, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

SAN FRANCISCO – The longshore division of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which met here on May 5-9, made it clear that dockers are not resting on the laurels of the recent contract victory...

State budget crisis deepens

May 22, 2003 By David Eisenhower

In her analysis of “The State Fiscal Crisis” for the Center for Budget Priorities, Lisa McNichol reveals the dimensions of the most serious budget crisis in decades.