Labor
EDITORIAL: May Day
April 27, 2007Army Sgt. Irving Taffler, stationed at a big American base in Italy after World War II, was ordered by his colonel to go out and hire 200 Italians to staff the facility. Taffler, a proud member...
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The bell tolls again for workers
April 27, 2007PITTSBURGH — A hand-fabricated metal chime will ring out here on April 28, Workers Memorial Day, tolling for workers killed on the job starting with two miners who died April 17 in Barton, Md. Mike Wilt,...
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CT stands up for health care
April 27, 2007“Stand Up for Health Care!” may be the largest rally in Connecticut history, May 5, as residents in the state struggle with a broken health care system that has reached crisis proportions. Last week more than...
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Big money vs. workers rights
April 20, 2007The phenomenal rise of the multi-million-dollar union-busting industry in the U.S. has paralleled the decline in the manufacturing base, the rise of the right wing and the decline in union membership of the past 30-some years....
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Black union leaders continue to make history
April 13, 2007CHICAGO — Three seasoned Black union leaders came together recently at the home of the Rev. Addie Wyatt on this city’s South Side. Katie Jordan, president of the Chicago chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union...
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