Labor
Miamians protest detention of Haitians
August 29, 2003The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is going to put the unfair treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers on the national agenda, said Winie Cantave, co-director of the Miami-based Unite for Dignity. According to Cantave, hundreds of Haitian refugees,...
Read moreCintas workers protest poverty wages
August 29, 2003DETROIT – “We want a living wage!” shouted 100 people conducting an informational picket line and rally at the Cintas industrial laundry plant here July 31. The line included workers from the plant, members of United...
Read moreTotal Recall
August 29, 2003Workers’ correspondence Sitting at breakfast with a couple of union buddies, talking about the California recall, we recalled defeating the 1998 effort to gag labor’s voice in our state known as Prop. 226. “It was right-wing...
Read moreAuto workers say open the books
August 15, 2003DETROIT – As the U.S. economy lurches toward the end of its third year of recession, workers everywhere are struggling to keep ends together, autoworkers no less than anyone else. Contract talks between the United Auto...
Read moreWal-Mart campaign tops UFCW agenda
August 15, 2003Organizing Wal-Mart, dealing with the crisis in U.S. health care, and defeating George Bush in 2004 were recurring themes in the international convention of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) held in San Francisco...
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