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Sacramento labor council supports dockers
August 9, 2002The 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...
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August 2, 2002Tax 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...
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August 2, 2002Steelworkers 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...
Read moreGlobalizing labor against Coca-Cola
August 1, 2002I 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...
Read moreCoal country celebrates miners rescue
August 1, 2002SIPESVILLE, Pa. – Men, women and children walk up the lane of the Arnold family dairy farm in a steady stream to pay homage to nine brave coal miners and the skill of the rescue team...
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