safety
Locked out on the Great Lakes
July 25, 2011The epidemic of corporate greed sweeping our nation is alive and well on the Great Lakes.
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Uranium plant, run by scabs, fined for toxic leak
July 5, 2011An accident at a uranium-processing plant in Metropolis, Ill, shows the danger of using scab labor in a plant that requires sophisticated and trained workers.
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It’s union time at America’s airports!
June 23, 2011After a ten-year struggle, 40,000 workers at 450 airports across the nation are celebrating today after choosing the AFGE as their union and sole bargaining agent.
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Honeywell lockout threatens thousands in Illinois and Kentucky
January 21, 2011United Steelworkers local 7-669 and the Steelworkers international Union issued a well researched report this week outlining the health and safety hazards posed by the use of scab replacement workers to operate Honeywell's Metropolis Illinois plant.
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Urzúa, miner number 33
October 19, 2010Chilean miner #33, Luis Urzúa, the leader of the entrapped group, embodies Chile's history from Allende to Pinochet to now with working-class dignity and tenacious faith in his fellow miners and humankind.
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