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Labor confronts World Economic Forum

February 8, 2002

NEW YORK – “The global economy does not work for working people and that is why we are here in New York to challenge Enron economics at home and abroad,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told the...

Letters

February 1, 2002

Controversy is democracy Our history is not good. We scalped the Indians when we conquered the land and we lied and said they scalped the whiteman first. We broke every treaty and agreement with them. Abraham...

Editorials

February 1, 2002

Meeting the challenge African-American History Month begins against the backdrop of deepening working-class poverty and unemployment, ongoing racial profiling and more Black men and women in jail than in college. The Sept. 11 attack is still...

Major victory at Chicagos V&V

February 1, 2002

CHICAGO – On Jan. 21, production workers at V&V Supremo Cheese in the mostly Mexican Pilsen community here voted to ratify their first union contract. They had voted more than a year ago to be represented...

Texas labor endorses minority candidates

February 1, 2002

AUSTIN – The Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) endorsed two minority and pro-affirmative action candidates for governor and Senate at its Jan. 15 convention here. For many delegates, the defining issues were previous political...