Labor
Iraq Inc.: Corporate hogs feed at war trough
July 20, 2007Privatization, a strategy to eliminate public control over vital sectors of the economy, is nothing new. What is new, and perhaps more ominous, is that privatization has become the preferred method by which the Bush administration...
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We need the Healthy Families Act
July 20, 2007Worker's Correspondence Every day, hundreds of thousands of Americans who are really too sick to work trudge off to their jobs, in spite of their fevers, sore throats, headaches, sprains and strains. Hundreds of thousands of...
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Trash, and solidarity, grow
July 20, 2007OAKLAND, Calif. — As Waste Management of Alameda County’s lockout of nearly 500 union drivers entered its third week, mountains of garbage continued to grow in many parts of Oakland and neighboring communities. Solidarity with the...
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At NAACPs Motown meet, its all about Black-labor unity
July 20, 2007DETROIT — Meeting in the heart of Motor City, a historic center of autoworkers and the African American working class, the NAACP placed ending racism and inequality and strengthening labor/Black unity high on the agenda of...
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Impeach the system
July 13, 2007Abridged from remarks delivered at a July 1 antiwar demonstration in Kennebunkport, Maine, when President Bush came to town. I was born in 1946 just as World War II ended. I remember the Korean War, 1953....
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