Labor

NATIONAL CLIPS

September 8, 2006

This week’s clips are a brief roundup of a few of the hundreds of Labor Day parades, marches and picnics around the country.DALLAS: Labor breakfast, immigrant rights marchLabor Day in Dallas began with the annual AFL-CIO...

Standoff continues in Oaxaca, Mexico

September 7, 2006

After a brutal police attack against a radio and television station, a tense standoff continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where striking teachers and popular organizations are demanding that right-wing Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz...

Need protection from unions? Bush Department of Labor races to rescue

September 1, 2006

Anyone who feels that getting protection from their employers is taking away their “rights” will be relieved to learn that the United States Department of Labor, George W. Bush in charge, is racing to the rescue....

Class struggle is a fact, not a theory

September 1, 2006

Let me make something perfectly clear up front. Along with some powerful disagreements, I have a great deal of respect for Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees union. He and his union have made and...

EDITORIAL: The power of unity

September 1, 2006

On Sept. 5, 1882, some 10,000 workers paraded in New York City, organized by the Knights of Labor. That unpaid day off was the start of what later became Labor Day. Today, 104 years later, the...