Labor
100,000 strikers force SBC to pick up phone
May 28, 2004CHICAGO – Phone giant SBC Communications got the message when 100,000 workers in 13 states put down their headsets and tool belts to hit the streets, transmitting their own powerful message. After a four-day strike, May...
Read moreFarm workers march for justice
May 21, 2004ALBANY, N.Y. – A crowd of about 300 people with bright red shirts proclaiming “Farmworkers Deserve Justice” gathered on the west side of the State Capitol building here May 11 to celebrate the arrival of a...
Read moreShowdown at SBC Communications
May 21, 2004At press time, over 100,000 SBC workers in 13 states, members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), were on the job but poised to strike if SBC management continued to reject the union’s demands for...
Read moreLabor says: Create more jobs: fire Bush!
May 21, 2004WASHINGTON – About 1,000 Machinist union members marched from Capitol Hill to a rally near the White House May 12 to demand jobs with benefits and to cheer calls for the ouster of George W. Bush...
Read moreTexas govt gets nastier
May 14, 2004DALLAS – Texas government, gripped in the talons of right-wingers since before the rest of the nation ever heard of George W. Bush, has gone from dirty politics to downright nasty. Consider the following: • The...
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