Paul S. Kaczocha
LATEST ARTICLES BY Paul S. Kaczocha
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U.S.
Now is time to move on health care, Conyers says
November 17, 2006CHICAGO — Health care activists from around the country gathered here for a strategy meeting Nov. 11-12, energized in the wake of the Democrats winning control of both houses of Congress.
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Labor
Gary teachers win nine-day strike
September 8, 2006GARY, Ind. — Meeting at the city’s largest high school on Sept. 1, 1,500 members of American Federation of Teachers Local 4 loudly and unanimously approved a new one-year contract that everyone agreed was a tremendous...
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U.S.
Health care: HR 676: Everybody in, nobody out!
April 23, 2004WASHINGTON – “Health care in the U.S. is racist, sexist and discriminates against the poor.”
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Labor
As useful as teats on a boar
April 9, 2004Opinion Recently The New York Times reported a dispute at a meeting in France of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Steelworker wins key election
May 18, 2002GARY, Ind. - A grassroots campaign by steelworker and union leader Mary Elgin resulted in what is being called the biggest political upset in decades in this solidly working-class community. Elgin defeated Dozier Allen for Calumet...
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Other
Mexican steelworkers occupy complex
January 19, 2002On Dec. 20, over 2,000 iron ore miners occupied the Sicartsa plant and three other neighboring steel plants in the huge steel complex located at Lázaro Cárdenas-Las Trujas, in the Mexican state of Michoacán. ISPAT Mexicana,...
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Steelworkers pay for Cold War’s end
December 21, 2001Much has been written about how low-cost imports have affected steelworkers in the United States. In the past two years, 29 steel companies have declared bankruptcy, with several of them going under and closing their doors....
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Steelworkers struggle to survive
November 30, 2001BURNS HARBOR, Ind. – Bankrupt Bethlehem Steel and the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) are meeting with creditors in Pittsburgh to hammer out a proposal on a revised contract for submission to the bankruptcy judge.
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