Workers beat back Waste Managements challenge
OAKLAND, Calif. — Residents and businesses here and in neighboring cities heaved a collective sigh of relief this week as garbage workers returned to work July 30 at Waste Management of Alameda County, proud that with support from other unions and the community they had turned back a corporate giant’s all-out union-busting drive.
Palestinian doctor paints picture of Gaza under siege
CHICAGO — Dr. Mona El-Farra, speaking here as part of a 17-city U.S. tour, related how recently a Palestinian woman in the Occupied Territories had gone into labor and was heading to a hospital. “She was about to give birth, but she was detained at an Israeli checkpoint for three hours,” El-Farra said. “Amazingly, she eventually got through and was able to deliver her child.”
Arnold the Fish Terminator
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ramped up his campaign to build a peripheral canal and more water storage facilities with four major press conferences July 16-24, at northern California’s San Luis Reservoir, Twitchell Island in the Delta, Long Beach and San Diego.
We salute Joyce Wheeler
We salute Joyce Wheeler on her retirement from the Baltimore City Public Schools.
Immigrants fight for family values
Though most observers have concluded that immigration reform is dead until after the 2008 elections, many immigrant rights activists are continuing to fight. They are especially fired up by the sharp increase in immigration raids and deportations, which are shattering families nationwide.
LETTERS July 28
Abstinence-only flunks out Sarkozy attack on labor Write more letters ‘They shall build houses’ Good questions
THIS WEEK IN LABOR July 28
New Kennedy bill would further boost minimum wage Port truckers petition to be employees Congress hears calls for single-payer national health care AFL-CIO’s LGBT group urges marriage equality
Corn, chickens and capitalism
The economic driving force of production in capitalist society is profits. This usually leads to multiple contradictions between conflicting forces of capital. Take the current energy crisis.
