Labor
Supermarket workers in Northeast win contract
February 27, 2004The big issue in our contract was health care, which is also the major issue in California, where 70,000 members of our union (United Food and Commercial Workers) are on strike. We took a collection in...
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Southwest, the LUV airline, is a heart-breaker
February 27, 2004DALLAS – Flight attendants in Transport Workers Union Local 556 sent a powerful Valentine’s Day message to the bosses at Southwest Airlines Feb. 13 with informational pickets and rallies at all seven major airports served. There...
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Illinois Senate race offers historic opportunity
February 27, 2004CHICAGO – The race for the Democratic nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat in Illinois has boiled down to a three-person race, according to polls. Millionaire Blair Hull has a slight lead after pouring $18...
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Teachers: Leave this man behind
February 27, 2004Education Secretary Rod Paige should step down for attaching the “terrorist” label to 2.7 million schoolteachers and their union, the National Education Association, said Reg Weaver, NEA president. The nation’s hardworking teachers came home from their...
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Congress abandons millions of jobless
February 27, 2004HAMDEN, Conn. – While the White House backed off empty job creation claims last week, machinists, teamsters, building trades, and municipal workers crowded into the Job Center here, angry at the failure of the Republican-controlled Congress...
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