Labor
8 killed in Dominican general strike
February 13, 2004Eight people were killed during a general strike that shook the Dominican Republic for 48 hours on Jan. 28-29. The general strike, which was organized by the National Coordinating Body of People’s Organizations and Labor Unions,...
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Iraqi workers still denied basic rights
February 13, 2004PHILADELPHIA – While Iraqi workers currently face daunting conditions such as spiraling inflation and 70 percent unemployment, they are refusing to let restrictive, anti-labor laws stop their organizing work. This was the message of two trade...
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Industrial unions say Beat Bush!
February 13, 2004WASHINGTON – You know you’re at a great conference when, before the first speaker can finish even one paragraph, 3,000 screaming workers jump to their feet, whooping and hollering to beat George Bush. That about sums...
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Michigan voters focus on job losses
February 12, 2004YPSILANTI, Mich. – Disappearing jobs. That is the issue that primarily motivated nearly 150,000 Michigan voters to participate in the Democratic presidential caucus. Since George W. Bush took office, 140,000 manufacturing jobs were lost and the...
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Fred Gaboury, dean of labor writers, 78
February 12, 2004Fred Gaboury, a logger from the Pacific Northwest, had Paul Bunyan-sized hands so big he couldn’t make his fingers hit the right typewriter keys. Yet in 30 years as a peerless labor writer, he interviewed hundreds...
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