Labor

                
  • 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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  • Retirees step up fight for health care, pensions

    Retirees step up fight for health care, pensions

    October 31, 2003

    If the recent conferences of the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) and the Alliance of Retired Americans (ARA) are any indication, senior militancy is definitely on the rise. Both of these union-based organizations, meeting back-to-back...

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  • First visit of U.S. unionists to occupied Iraq

    First visit of U.S. unionists to occupied Iraq

    October 31, 2003 By Susan Webb

    Stop violating labor rights CHICAGO – Two U.S. trade unionists just back from Iraq say they hope their trip is the beginning of cooperation and solidarity between the U.S. labor movement and Iraq’s newly re-established unions.

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