Labor
Striking Machinists at Boeing ask: How do you hide $13 billion?
September 7, 2008“How do you hide $13 billion? Do you stuff it in an airplane? Do you give it to the CEO? Or, do you share it with your workers?” These questions are printed on union flyers being...
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Strike shuts down Boeing Company
September 7, 200827,000 members of the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union shut down Boeing, the nation’s largest aircraft maker, Sept. 6 as they formed picket lines at all company facilities in Washington state, Oregon and Kansas. The...
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Did a Mississippi raid protect right-wing politicians?
September 3, 2008Originally posted at LAUREL, Miss. — On August 25, immigration agents swooped down on Howard Industries, a Mississippi electrical equipment factory, taking 481 workers to a privately-run detention center in Jena, Louisiana. A hundred and six...
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Marchers link struggles past to promising future
August 30, 2008DETROIT — Close to 70 Obama acceptance speech events took place in the Detroit metropolitan area last night, but by far the largest was at Bert’s Warehouse Theater in the city’s Eastern Market, where several thousand...
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Largest-ever workplace raid terrorizes 600 workers in Miss.
August 30, 2008Nearly 600 undocumented workers were rounded up Aug. 25 by federal agents in the small town of Laurel, Miss., the largest single workplace raid in U.S. history. According to news reports, 595 workers were detained at...
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