Roberta Wood
LATEST ARTICLES BY Roberta Wood
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Chicagoland IAM auto mechanics rev up solidarity engines
August 2, 2017Leaving their toolboxes inside, striking auto mechanics turned to other tools to rev the engines of solidarity outside scores of car dealerships lining Aurora and Ogden Avenues in this Chicago suburb August 1.
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Union organizing takes off on college campuses across nation
June 2, 2017Campuses of colleges, both private and public, have been a hot spot of union organizing and solidarity in recent years.
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Refugee babies kept behind bars in Texas
April 10, 2017There’s money to be made by keeping them locked up. It didn’t start with Trump, but his administration is continuing and beefing up the practice.
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Chicago’s women bus drivers protest filthy, unsafe port-a-potties
March 8, 2017“They’re nasty and dangerous,” said Amalgamated Transit Union member Betty Evans.
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Does Donald Trump own the “white working class”?
December 8, 2016A deeply racist element may have made up the core of Trump supporters, but they were only a fraction of Trump voters. What about the others?
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Feds find Trump guilty on the eve of the election
November 6, 2016The National Labor Relations Board hit Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel corporation with a “cease and desist” order.
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Vegas housekeepers say Trump has history of flouting elections
October 20, 2016Does presidential candidate Donald Trump plan to respect the outcome of the Nov. 8 elections?
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Trump housekeepers demand respect too
October 19, 2016Hundreds of housekeepers, servers and cooks from the Trump Hotel here feel the sting of Trump’s disrespect every day.
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