Labor
Getting paid for overtime
April 30, 2004After 30 years, I still remember my rage and frustration. I was cleaning up after a hot, hard eight-hour shift at Oregon Steel, when the foreman came into the locker room. “Put your work clothes back...
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Cintas workers seek safety and justice
April 30, 2004News analysis Just hearing Cintas workers tell their stories about sorting out wormy, moldy and flammable shop towels without proper ventilation is nauseating. Area clergy took these concerns about intolerable and dangerous health hazards straight to...
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When it comes to jobs, shoot for the moon
April 30, 2004The name is the Apollo Project. And no, it’s not about Bush’s trip to Mars. It’s about jobs and cleaner energy.
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China-bashing: an election-year mistake
April 30, 2004George W. Bush will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a U.S. economy that lost jobs. Over 2 million manufacturing jobs are gone since Bush took office. How to fight this wholesale...
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L.A. hotel workers overworked & underpaid
April 23, 2004LOS ANGELES – With a contract that expired April 15, about 4,000 Los Angeles-area hotel workers are gearing up for a struggle focusing on health care, wages and working conditions. “We are not looking for a...
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