Labor

                
  • U.S. health care: Crisis, solutions, action plan

    U.S. health care: Crisis, solutions, action plan

    May 16, 2003

    The United Steel Workers of America (USWA) hosted a national forum on the health care crisis at its headquarters in Pittsburgh on April 27. James English, secretary-treasurer of the USWA, set the stage for the forum,...

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  • May Day 2003: Drawing strength from Brazil

    May Day 2003: Drawing strength from Brazil

    May 16, 2003

    MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Hundreds of workers and fair trade activists celebrated May Day here by gathering to hear union and Workers’ Party activist Marcelo Borges Sereno describe “Organizing to win union power: How Lula did it.”...

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  • UMWA: Coal dust testing changes monstrous

    UMWA: Coal dust testing changes monstrous

    May 16, 2003

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Although they get the headlines and the TV crews, coal mine explosions and cave-ins have not been the leading cause of death of coal miners for 50 years. Black lung, a disease that...

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  • Nurses cheer call to oust Bush

    Nurses cheer call to oust Bush

    May 16, 2003

    WASHINGTON – About 500 union nurses, both registered and practical, fanned out on Capitol Hill May 6 to protest the billions in tax cuts George W. Bush and Congress are doling out to the rich while...

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  • Protesters reclaim rights at Oakland docks

    Protesters reclaim rights at Oakland docks

    May 16, 2003

    OAKLAND – Bowing to intense pressure from the community and public officials, Oakland police remained largely on the sidelines as more than a thousand demonstrators, May 12, reasserted their constitutional right to picket at the docks...

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