Retirees who wont quit
Where do over two million union members go when they retire? The AFL-CIO has an answer: the Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA).
Production at any cost? Dockers say No!
Commentary When longshore workers go to work in the morning, they hope to come back to their family at the end of the day in one piece, and able to go to work the next day.
Our children cant vote, but you can ...
What am I missing here? The Oct. 7 New York Times ran a front-page article that said a majority of Americans believe President Bush and congressional leaders are spending too much time studying war while neglecting problems at home. A second front-page article in the same edition reported that Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, visiting an eight-person company in Duluth to help draw attention to the spiraling cost of health care for small companies, had to ask a local television reporter for the favor of mentioning in her news report why he was there. She was only interested in a sound bite about Wellstone’s opposition to unilateral action against Iraq.
We can prevent this war!
President Bush received the votes from Congress authorizing him to wage war against Iraq. The world is a much less secure place as a result.
Quecreek miners demand answers
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – With thousands of lives at stake and a state honeycombed with abandoned coal mines, Quecreek miners, who electrified the nation when they survived 78 hours trapped in a flooded mine, scored a small victory when they convinced an investigation panel to hold additional hearings in the evening, closer to the site.
Romney no friend of working people
BOSTON – The Republican Party is pulling out all the stops in an effort to elect Mitt Romney as Massachusetts governor. Within a two-week period, both President George W. Bush and his father have made campaign appearances.
Janitors continue fight
BOSTON – Janitors in the Boston area entered their third week of striking the office building cleaning contractors with continued picket lines, marches, demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience to call attention to their plight and some victories.
ILWU survival at stake in Nov. 5 vote
LOS ANGELES – The West Coast waterfront battle is moving beyond the docks to the Nov. 5 elections as the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and giant retailers make clear their aim to destroy the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) through union-busting legislation in the new Congress next January.
Looking a gift horse in the mouth
When Sikorsky Aircraft landed a contract to build Comanche helicopters for the Army, Connecticut’s media headlined the 500 jobs it would bring to Bridgeport. In small print, they revealed that there would only be 150 new jobs – the rest are transfers from a neighboring town.
Not getting by in America
The bottom line – you can’t get by on $6 or $7 an hour. Millions of Americans fall under that bottom line, and they aren’t getting by.
