Labor
Working Families victory in NYC vote
November 13, 2003NEW YORK – History was made here on Nov. 4 as Letitia James running on the Working Families Party line, swept the polls in a landslide as the first third-party candidate to be elected to City...
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Grassroots victories give hope for 2004
November 13, 2003News Analysis Despite Republican claims of having locked up the South after winning governors’ races in Mississippi and Kentucky, the 2004 presidential race is far from over. In addition to polls reporting lack of confidence in...
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Pratt & Whitney workers fight to save jobs
November 7, 2003Workers’ correspondence International Association of Machinists sisters and brothers at the profitable United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt & Whitney plant in Connecticut are fighting hard for their jobs. On Oct. 3, materials workers at Pratt voted “no”...
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City workers rally for justice
November 7, 2003NEW YORK – This city’s workers have not had a raise in over two years and need one now to pay the rent and put food on the table, declared Lillian Roberts, executive director of American...
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Victory for St. Louis grocery workers
November 7, 2003ST. LOUIS – After 25 days of strikes and lockouts, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 655 and Schnuck’s, Dierbergs, and Shop ’n Save announced an agreement on wages and health care benefits covering...
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