Labor
Razorbacks rally for Employee Free Choice
July 14, 2009LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — I just happened to be visiting my cousins in Arkansas when I got word of a rally in Little Rock to support the Employee Free Choice Act. I rushed up to Central...
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Union City a union city
July 14, 2009UNION CITY-- A fighting militant demonstration of several hundred nursing home workers, members of 1199/SEIU sent a message to their employer, Castle Hill Nursing Home, that they want a new union contract and they mean to...
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‘No justice, no pizza!’ protestors tell Pizza Hut
July 12, 2009CHICAGO -- “I have spent my whole life – since I was 17 years old – working at Pizza Hut. Instead of respecting my hard work, Pizza Hut has thrown me on the street with nothing,”...
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Dont mourn, organize!
July 11, 2009News Analysis The famous Joe Hill quote, “Don’t mourn, organize!” is being taken to heart, it seems, on a regular basis these days. Three things happened in the last few months that were not so good....
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He taketh from the mine owners and he giveth to the miners
July 11, 2009For the eight long years of the Bush administration the government’s Mine, Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) was run by representatives of the people who own the mines. On a full time basis a man named...
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