Labor

                
  • San Antonio hosts immigration meet

    San Antonio hosts immigration meet

    May 18, 2007

    SAN ANTONIO — Fourteen national leaders of U.S. unions and civic organizations and a member of the Mexican Congress participated in the First International Forum on Immigration here, May 5. It was convened by Jaime Martinez,...

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  • Reality TV producers need a reality check

    Reality TV producers need a reality check

    May 18, 2007

    Union busting is not new. Corporations with enough money and inclination have employed many dirty tactics to break a union organizing campaign. However, the tactics being waged against television writers fighting for benefits and membership in...

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  • There comes a time

    There comes a time

    May 18, 2007

    Before the ’06 elections, more than a few skeptical voices asked what substantial progress could be achieved through the peoples’ massive get-out-the-vote campaign. We had tried before and failed. Yet after the ballots were counted, even...

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  • EDITORIAL: Let the workers beware

    EDITORIAL: Let the workers beware

    May 18, 2007

    With the purchase this week of Chrysler Group by Cerberus Capital Management, the proverb “Let the buyer beware” should be replaced with one that reads, “Let the workers beware.” The fact that Cerberus is run by...

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  • Art Shields: Labor’s great reporter

    Art Shields: Labor’s great reporter

    May 18, 2007 By Tim Wheeler

    Art Shields was the Daily Worker’s greatest labor reporter. I got to know Art and his wife Esther, herself a labor journalist, soon after I joined the staff of the Worker in January 1967. Art helped...

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