Labor law 101
The threat by President George Bush to intervene in contract talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a classic example of how U.S. laws governing labor management relations are tilted against workers and their unions and but another example of Bush’s hatred of working people.
Commercialism invades Billiken parade
CHICAGO – Over a million people, despite heat and sun, attended the 73rd annual Bud Billiken Parade here Aug. 10, and millions more watched the nation’s second largest parade on television.
Editorials
Bush’s war for oil/Senate puts business first
USWA: Workers unite
Leo Gerard, in his keynote address to the 31st Convention of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), proudly announced international guests from 40 unions from 17 countries. He asked them all to stand to rousing applause from the delegates. In his speech, and in the convention proceedings, the Steelworkers targeted capitalist globalization and U.S. transnationals as destroying “more than two million jobs in the U.S. and Canada.”
Sacramento labor council supports dockers
The Sacramento Central Labor Council adopted a resolution, July 16, protesting the intervention by Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s contract negotiations.
Editorials
Steelworkers are fighting for their lives/Visit your Congressperson
Globalizing labor against Coca-Cola
I first met Luis Adolfo Cardona in Bogota, Colombia. He was clearly traumatized. He told my Witness for Peace labor delegation that on December 5, 1996, he’d witnessed the murder of Isidro Segundo Gil inside a Coca-Cola plant.
Coal country celebrates miners rescue
SIPESVILLE, Pa. – Men, women and children walk up the lane of the Arnold family dairy farm in a steady stream to pay homage to nine brave coal miners and the skill of the rescue team that brought them up alive from a flooded mine 250 feet below a cornfield Sunday, July 28.
