Labor

Teachers and their union fight for public education

April 2, 2004

An interview with Chicago Teachers Union President Deborah Lynch The most important thing we can do to reverse NCLB is defeat Bush in November.

I didnt know I could be sold!

April 2, 2004

Workers’ Correspondence I am one of 150 employees of the Home Care Network of Chicago’s Rush Hospital who were literally sold March 23 to Patient Care, a giant for-profit home-care company with 6,000 employees nationwide. Workers...

Students demand justice for immigrant janitors

April 2, 2004

ST. LOUIS – Students at Washington University here are demanding the return of 36 Nicaraguan custodial and maintenance workers who were forced to leave the country after their contract with G&G Building Services was terminated in...

So, where did Wal-Mart come from?

April 2, 2004 By Wadi’h Halabi

An earlier column opened our continuing look into Wal-Mart’s pole vault from a one-store operation in 1962 to the world’s largest corporation.

Labor update

April 2, 2004

This fleece gives you the chills A fleecy pullover offered on the official merchandise web site of the George Bush re-election campaign is the woven embodiment of the hypocrisy and anti-working class character of that campaign,...