worker rights
Price too high to pay
April 9, 2010Anti-union attacks exact a price. That price was paid by more than two dozen workers in West Virginia. Too high a price to pay.
Read moreWhy working people are angry and why politicians should listen
April 9, 2010AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka details the struggles facing America's working people and the challenges to take the anger and use it in unifying and productive ways.
Read moreDeadly explosions kill 31 energy workers in one week
April 6, 2010ANACORTES, Wash.---Families and co-workers of six oil workers killed in a refinery explosion here April 2 were mourning their dead when three days later another explosion, this one in a West Virginia coal mine killed 25...
Read moreSan Francisco hotel workers hold two-day ‘siege’
April 1, 2010SAN FRANCISCO - The giant hotel corporations that dominate this city's top hotels may think they can hide behind the current economic crisis to force workers to accept a contract full of takeaways.
Read moreMyth of auto-giant Toyota
March 31, 2010Behind the recall is the "maximum rate of profit" law of capitalist production, Japan's Akahata newspaper exposes.
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