News
Auto workers say open the books
August 15, 2003DETROIT – As the U.S. economy lurches toward the end of its third year of recession, workers everywhere are struggling to keep ends together, autoworkers no less than anyone else. Contract talks between the United Auto...
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Leaders urge no vote on Prop. 54
August 15, 2003LOS ANGELES – Civil rights leaders and public officials announced their opposition to Proposition 54 at an Aug. 12 press conference on the steps of City Hall here. Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn called Prop. 54...
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Letters
August 15, 2003Time 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...
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Editorials
August 15, 2003Looting 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...
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Vets in same boat as injured workers
August 15, 2003Sick and injured war veterans and victims of industrial workplace accidents have a lot in common. Both are treated disgracefully.
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