Labor

                
  • U of M workers victory

    U of M workers victory

    November 7, 2003

    MINNEAPOLIS – Striking clerical workers at the University of Minnesota have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the university administration and will return to work on Nov. 5. The 1,900 workers, members of...

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  • Hold Wal-Mart accountable

    Hold Wal-Mart accountable

    October 31, 2003

    Opinion All across the country Wal-Mart is cashing in on family tragedies. After Doug Sims, a Wal-Mart employee in Plainview, Texas, died of a heart attack in 1998, his wife, Jane, found out exactly what Wal-Mart...

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  • History-makers reflect on Salt of the Earth: Even more relevant now

    History-makers reflect on Salt of the Earth: Even more relevant now

    October 31, 2003

    Anita and Lorenzo Torrez were a young married couple thrown into the midst of the Empire Zinc strike in Hanover, N.M., in 1950. They were radicalized in the course of the strike and became members of...

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  • Steelworkers support college athletes

    Steelworkers support college athletes

    October 31, 2003

    “Professional athletes had to fight for the rights we now have. We’ll stand by the collegiate athletes in their struggle for justice until they win,” Daylon McCutcheon, defensive back for the Cleveland Browns, told a recent...

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  • Grocery strike solid

    Grocery strike solid

    October 31, 2003

    VENICE, Calif. – Several hundred workers and supporters from the community turned out in front of a Ralphs Market here Oct. 18 for a rally in support of the striking grocery workers. The strike and lockout...

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