Dick Meister
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dick Meister
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Opinion
Teachers need strong unions
March 11, 2011Teachers need the firm right to collective bargaining no less than Wisconsin's other public employees, no less than the public employees of every other state.
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Opinion
Crumbling bridges, rotting pipes and a jobless economy
November 22, 2010A public works program would create thousands of jobs and repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure.
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Opinion
Brown or Whitman? No contest
October 19, 2010And it's a choice that should have national impact, given California's prominence as a pace-setting state.
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Opinion
Closing the racial wealth gap
July 5, 2010Racial wage gap between black and white workers is shrinking, but the all-class gap between black and white is growing.
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Opinion
God not on side of union-busters, Catholic scholars say
June 23, 2010A Catholic scholars group says that opposing unions is a "grave violation" of the church's social doctrine - in fact, it's a mortal sin.
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Labor
Child labor in the U.S.A.
June 16, 2010How inviting it looks, the fruit laid out for us in grocery stores and supermarkets in a profusion of bright color.
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Labor
We need to combat workplace violence
February 8, 2010Consider this: Every year, almost two million American men and women are the victims of violent crime at their workplaces.
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Opinion
MLK was a working-class hero
February 3, 2010"I AM A MAN," the signs proclaimed in large, bold letters. They were held high, proudly and defiantly, by African-American men marching through the streets of Memphis.
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