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The struggle for the right to organize a union

January 30, 2004

While 45 percent of U.S. workers express the desire to have a union, only 13 percent have one. Using bold, repressive and mostly illegal methods, corporate America has held new organizing to a tiny trickle as...

Labor leads coalition to victory over corporate drug lords

January 30, 2004

CLEVELAND – Back in the year 2000, few people in Ohio believed a prescription drug bill with real benefits could be passed, not with a right-wing controlled State Legislature (some of whom call themselves the “caveman...

Solidarity with Utah miners

January 30, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO – In Huntington, Utah, coal miners at Co-Op Mines make $5.25 to $7 an hour, a third of the average wage in the industry. Seventy-five of the workers, who are almost all immigrants from...

THIS WEEK IN LABOR

January 30, 2004

Ohio Steelworkers sign contract Steelworkers at AK Steel Corporation ended 52 months without a collective bargaining agreement Jan. 26 with the signing of a final contract settlement with the company formerly known as Armco. That period...

Labor brings dream alive in Florida

January 30, 2004 By Noel Rabinowitz

ORLANDO, Fla. – Inspired by Dr. King’s struggles for civil, voting and workers’ rights, the AFL-CIO brought its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations to Florida this crucial election year.