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No-match letters: anti-union weapon
August 30, 2002“No-match” letters have become the weapon of choice as employers and the government step up their attack on immigrant workers. The Social Security Administration sends these letters to employers advising them that information in the administration’s...
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March to support HERE workers
August 30, 2002CHICAGO – Even with the threat of rain looming, almost 5,000 people, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 1 members, families, and supporters marched through the “Magnificent Mile” shopping and hotel district for better wages,...
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Dockers crash shipping line party
August 30, 2002LOS ANGELES – When Maersk Sealand, the largest shipping company in the world, opened its new facility, the largest terminal in the world, in the Port of Los Angeles Aug. 15, it threw itself a grand...
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Farmworkers march for historic bill
August 30, 2002SACRAMENTO – Thousands of marchers besieged the state capitol on Aug. 25, demanding Governor Gray Davis (D) sign a bill that would make history for those who toil in the fields of this state.
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Bush blocks funds for 9/11 rescue workers
August 30, 2002At his Waco, Tex., CEO pep rally on the economy, President Bush announced he intended to enforce “spending restraint” by blocking a $5.1 billion emergency spending bill passed by Congress which included $90 million for long-term...
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