Labor
Photo of the month
August 18, 2006Nick Kaleba of Press Associates Inc. submitted several photos depicting a Chicago rally against a pending National Labor Relations Board ruling that could make nurses “supervisors” and leave them ineligible for union protection. The picture above,...
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AFL-CIO, day laborers in watershed pact
August 18, 2006Going to work, getting paid, coming home in one piece and walking your neighborhood with dignity is the goal of a new “watershed” partnership between the AFL-CIO and a network of 140 immigrant worker centers in...
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Maryann Mahaffey, peoples champion, 81
August 11, 2006The people of Detroit are mourning the death of City Council President Maryann Mahaffey, who for 31 years, until illness forced her retirement from office last December, was a selfless fighter for labor’s rights, peace, equality...
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Summer books and web sites
August 11, 2006For your summer reading and surfing pleasure:“An Unreasonable Woman” by Diane Wilson (published by Chelsea Green). A true autobiographical story that is as engaging as a good novel. Written by a fourth-generation commercial fisherwoman in Texas...
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Anti-capitalist classic
August 11, 2006Movie Review The Devil Wears Prada Directed by David Frankel PG-13, 119 min., 2006 As I left the theater, I thought, I hated this movie. Yet it was one of the best movies I have seen...
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