Labor
One of the greatest stories of all times The Memphis sanitation workers strike remembered
August 22, 2008BOOK REVIEW Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign. By Michael K. Honey. W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2007, 623 pp. SAN FRANCISCO — Fortieth anniversary events this year have highlighted...
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Show me the jobs, brewery workers tell InBev Beer and globalization dont mix in St. Louis
August 20, 2008St. LOUIS – “InBev, we aren’t going to have a race to the bottom here,” said Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) to 1,000 Teamsters and their allies as they rallied here Aug. 16. InBev, a Belgian-based multi-national...
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Wal-Mart bullies workers on elections
August 20, 2008Charging retail giant Wal-Mart with illegally pressuring employees to vote for Republicans and John McCain in November, labor unions and community organizations filed a formal complaint last week with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC). Wal-Mart held...
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Listen to America…
August 20, 2008In late July and early August, Listening to America/Platform for Change hearings across the country invited grassroots input for the 2008 Democratic national platform. Below is testimony by steelworker retiree Bruce Bostick at the Aug. 2...
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Poultry workers: Poster-child for Employee Free Choice Act
August 20, 2008WINESBURG, Ohio — After working 20 years at the Case Farms poultry plant here Ken Brown, 55, gets $8.10 an hour. “You can’t live on that,” he said, “especially with the rising prices of fuel and...
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