Labor

Stop the war on retirees

November 13, 2003

Workers’ correspondence It struck like a knife to the gut when an old steelworker friend recently contacted me with an amazing story. According to my friend, the Pension Benefits Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) had just sent letters...

Bush administration twists truth on jobs

November 13, 2003 By Art Perlo

Treasury Secretary John Snow is boasting about the prospects for the economy, and for job growth in particular. Pro-administration writers credit the Bush tax cuts, and say that a recovering economy will deprive the Democrats of...

Threatened by free trade Engineers need unions too

November 13, 2003

Workers’ Correspondence When I started out working as a mechanical engineer a bit over four decades ago, there was a widespread tendency for engineers to regard themselves as a special group above and unrelated to the...

Working Families victory in NYC vote

November 13, 2003

NEW YORK – History was made here on Nov. 4 as Letitia James running on the Working Families Party line, swept the polls in a landslide as the first third-party candidate to be elected to City...

Grassroots victories give hope for 2004

November 13, 2003

News Analysis Despite Republican claims of having locked up the South after winning governors’ races in Mississippi and Kentucky, the 2004 presidential race is far from over. In addition to polls reporting lack of confidence in...