Labor
IBEW rank and file powers up electoral grid
October 15, 2004Commentary When Dick Cheney boasted during the vice presidential debate that he had “carried a ticket with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for six years,” he didn’t impress many IBEW members. It was like a...
Read moreIron Range fired up
October 15, 2004HIBBING, Minn. — The 2004 presidential election is “historically far more important than any other … in my lifetime,” Steelworkers District 11 Director David Foster told a get-out-the-vote training session in the heart of Minnesota’s Iron...
Read moreKerry walks Ohio picket line
October 8, 2004Presidential candidate John Kerry visited the picket line in front of the RMI Titanium plant in Niles, Ohio, Oct. 3 before he proceeded to a town hall meeting in nearby Warren. For a half hour he...
Read moreL.A. County Fed gears up for offensive
October 8, 2004LOS ANGELES — Labor history was made Sept. 30 as the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, held U.S. labor’s first-ever central labor council congress. A thousand rank-and-filers and labor leaders approved a proactive progressive...
Read moreHotel workers check out in SF
October 1, 2004San Francisco hotel workers walked out Sept. 29 as part of a three-city struggle to force giant hotel chains to agree to a common contract expiration date. The union has announced the 1,200-member strike will last...
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