Labor
Fleecing the family
May 9, 2003Opinion Boy, there is no shortage of creatively terrible ideas from the Republican Party these days. Those folks are just full of notions about how to make people’s lives worse – one horrible idea after another...
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May Day around the world
May 9, 2003Iraq: Iraqi communists marked May Day for the first time in many decades, marching in central Baghdad under giant banners calling for security, democracy and peace in their country. The demonstration, which started in historic Fardus...
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A legacy and a pledge
May 9, 2003May 1 is a symbolic day of struggle and international solidarity among all the workers of the world. It is also the day I was born. On a May Day morning, 26 years ago, my parents,...
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Cleveland fights for healthcare
May 9, 2003CLEVELAND – The battle for affordable healthcare was the central theme of this year’s May Day event here, where, for the second year in a row, the Cleveland AFL-CIO officially observed this historic working-class holiday. For...
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D.C. rallies for immigrant rights
May 9, 2003WASHINGTON – Immigrant workers observed May Day with a Capitol Hill rally to demand that Congress grant legal residency to 8.5 million undocumented workers by passing the FREEDOM Act. They then moved downtown to a “Justice...
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