Steelworkers
Standing up: a poem for the picket lines
August 18, 2011This poem was inspired by the just-concluded United Steelworkers convention.
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Steelworkers “stand up, fight back” (with video)
August 17, 2011"Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed" - Lincoln's quote opened the United Steelworkers Convention.
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Honeywell lockout nearing settlement (video)
July 27, 2011In the video, Darrel Lillie, president of local 7-669 talks about the last 13 months and the issues involved.
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Unions discuss key issues with GE
June 3, 2011Health care, wages and pensions topped the talks between a multi-union coalition, headed by the United Electrical Workers, with General Electric.
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A Memorial Day massacre
May 26, 2011The film was an on-the-scene report of what historians call "The Memorial Day Massacre," filmed by Paramount Pictures as it happened in Chicago in May 1937.
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