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EDITORIAL: Apologize for slavery? What took so long?
March 30, 2007That is a logical question as state legislatures across the country weigh resolutions apologizing for their states’ role in perpetuating slavery, abolished in the United States 140 years ago. Maryland’s General Assembly, voting March 26, became...
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BP cost-cutting caused worker deaths
March 30, 2007HOUSTON — Federal investigators concluded in a report issued on March 20 that the longstanding disregard for safety by BP management resulted in the catastrophic explosion at its Texas City oil refinery on March 23, 2005....
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Racism opens eyes in Paris, Texas
March 30, 2007Worker's Correspondence I honestly thought racism was on the outs, especially in my little town of Paris, Texas. I live in one of those little Southern towns where everyone waves to everyone and everyone is a...
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Employee Free Choice Act heads to Senate
March 30, 2007The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee began hearing testimony on the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would make it easier for unions to organize workers, on March 27. The bipartisan bill, called...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
March 30, 2007Union love Kenneth Hill, a member of the Boilermakers Local 693, got married to Sonja McGruffin on the picket line outside the main gate of Northrop Grumman’s Ingalls shipyard, March 23, in Pascagoula, Miss. The wedding...
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