Labor

Gary teachers win nine-day strike

September 8, 2006 By Paul S. Kaczocha

GARY, 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...

Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers

September 8, 2006 By Art Perlo

For the last five months, job creation has failed to keep up with demand. But you’d never know that from most news stories.

NATIONAL CLIPS

September 8, 2006

This week’s clips are a brief roundup of a few of the hundreds of Labor Day parades, marches and picnics around the country.DALLAS: Labor breakfast, immigrant rights marchLabor Day in Dallas began with the annual AFL-CIO...

Standoff continues in Oaxaca, Mexico

September 7, 2006

After a brutal police attack against a radio and television station, a tense standoff continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where striking teachers and popular organizations are demanding that right-wing Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz...

Need protection from unions? Bush Department of Labor races to rescue

September 1, 2006

Anyone who feels that getting protection from their employers is taking away their “rights” will be relieved to learn that the United States Department of Labor, George W. Bush in charge, is racing to the rescue....