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USWA: Workers unite

August 9, 2002

Leo Gerard, in his keynote address to the 31st Convention of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), proudly announced international guests from 40 unions from 17 countries. He asked them all to stand to rousing applause...

Sacramento labor council supports dockers

August 9, 2002

The Sacramento Central Labor Council adopted a resolution, July 16, protesting the intervention by Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s contract negotiations. Delegates to the Labor Council told David Ballsley...

Letters

August 2, 2002

Tax the rich The Washington district of the Communist Party has just finished putting together a tax reform brochure to help change the horrible tax structure we have here. It is the most regressive in the...

Editorials

August 2, 2002

Steelworkers are fighting for their lives The Enron and WorldCom scandals expose the greed and even criminality of big business. But all the focus on crime in the corporate suites somewhat misses the bigger picture. It...

Globalizing labor against Coca-Cola

August 1, 2002

I first met Luis Adolfo Cardona in Bogota, Colombia. He was clearly traumatized. He told my Witness for Peace labor delegation that on December 5, 1996, he’d witnessed the murder of Isidro Segundo Gil inside a...