Labor
Hotel workers rise up
February 24, 2006SAN FRANCISCO — The Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel was awash in bright red T-shirts Feb. 15 as over 2,200 hotel workers and their supporters gathered to launch a national campaign for good wages and benefits, including...
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UPWA: Pioneers in African American history
February 17, 2006Leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America marched in support of striking Memphis sanitation workers in April 1968, just before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King there April 4. From left, Russell R. Lasley,...
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Fantastic feat
February 17, 2006NEW YORK (PAI) — It’s one 10-shoe-store chain in New York City, involving 95 workers, but the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s win at Footco is a glimpse into the future, where unions create new...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
February 17, 2006Delphi sparks protest “We have put our lives into these factories, and they are just pretty much throwing us out in the street,” Jonell Sayles, a 29-year Delphi employee at the company’s Flint East plant, told...
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Mining families still gripped with grief, anger
February 17, 2006Once the CNN trucks roll out, the national story dies on the vine, but for mining families and the United Mine Workers union in West Virginia, the recent coal mine disasters just won’t go away. After...
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