Labor
There comes a time
May 18, 2007Before the ’06 elections, more than a few skeptical voices asked what substantial progress could be achieved through the peoples’ massive get-out-the-vote campaign. We had tried before and failed. Yet after the ballots were counted, even...
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EDITORIAL: Let the workers beware
May 18, 2007With the purchase this week of Chrysler Group by Cerberus Capital Management, the proverb “Let the buyer beware” should be replaced with one that reads, “Let the workers beware.” The fact that Cerberus is run by...
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Art Shields: Labor’s great reporter
May 18, 2007Art Shields was the Daily Worker’s greatest labor reporter. I got to know Art and his wife Esther, herself a labor journalist, soon after I joined the staff of the Worker in January 1967. Art helped...
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Sago Mine families slam govt findings
May 18, 2007PITTSBURGH — “I can’t tell where the coal company ends and MSHA begins,” Deborah Hamner told the Charleston Gazette after a five-hour meeting with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration in which the agency released...
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Auto company CEOs rolling in dough
May 18, 2007DETROIT — If there is a crisis in the auto industry, it certainly cannot be seen when looking at the compensation of its top management. While autoworkers are being laid off, seeing their plants close and...
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