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Meister: BETTER TEACHER PAY: THE KEY TO BETTER SCHOOLS
Znet Article, April, 11 2007
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Americans and their political leaders claim to highly value the teachers who are the key to meet...
Meister: Cesar Chavez - A National Hero
Znet Article, March, 29 2007
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March 31 will be a special day in nine states and dozens of cities -- Cesar Chavez Day, honoring the late founder of the United Farm Workers union on the 80th anniversary of his birth. That's important, but it's way past time that a national...
Meister: FARMWORKERS NEED MORE FEDERAL HELP -- NOW!
Znet Article, March, 18 2007
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FARMWORKERS NEED MORE FEDERAL HELP -- NOW!
Meister: LABOR'S CHANCE - FINALLY - FOR A TRULY FREE CHOICE
Znet Article, March, 10 2007
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LABOR'S CHANCE - FINALLY - FOR A TRULY FREE CHOICE
Meister: BUSTING UNIONS TO PROTECT "NATIONAL SECURITY"
Znet Article, March, 04 2007
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BUSTING UNIONS TO PROTECT "NATIONAL SECURITY"
Meister: SICK WORKERS AND KIDS NEED OUR HELP
Znet Article, February, 16 2007
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Millions of working Americans can’t afford to stay off work even if they or their children are ill. They need the day’s pay to survive. So they report to their jobs to work at less than full productivity and possibly spread their i...
Meister: SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN!
Znet Article, February, 04 2007
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SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN!
Meister: THE DAY SEATTLE STOOD STILL
Znet Article, January, 29 2007
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It was 88 years ago th...
Meister: Dancing in the Rain: The Oakland General Strike
Znet Article, December, 11 2006
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It was 7 a.m. on a cold, rainy day in the heart of downtown Oakland, California, sixty years ago this month, the prelude to one of the very few general strikes in American history. Dozens of strikers were gathered outside the city's two main depa...
Meister: Payback Time for Labor
Znet Article, December, 07 2006
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For more than a decade, Congress has paid little attention to the labor issues that affect millions of Americans. But that will change dramatically when the new Democratically-controlled Congress convenes in January. Organized labor's all-out c...
Meister: More Poison, Says Bush
Znet Article, November, 25 2006
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Thanks to the Bush administration, farmworkers and many other Americans will continue to be exposed to methyl bromide, one of the most dangerous of the pesticides that seriously endanger public health.Methyl bromide is so toxic that an internation...
Meister: Labor & the Democrats: A Winning Combination?
Znet Article, October, 07 2006
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Politics, politics and almost nothing but politics. That's what we're hearing from America's unions these days. For they're waging one of the biggest and most expensive political campaigns in labor history. More than $40 million, the most unions h...
Meister: Harry, We Owe You
Znet Article, June, 16 2006
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The continuous struggle of ordinary working people to stand on an equal footing with their employers has rarely been given a thorough and unbiased accounting in the nation's daily newspapers. But there have been some notable exceptions, none more ...
Meister: The Real May Day
Znet Article, April, 26 2006
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The Real May Day
Meister: Si Se Puede
Znet Article, March, 28 2006
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March 31 is a special day in eight states and dozens of cities and counties -- and should be. It's Cesar Chavez Day, honoring the late founder of the United Farm Workers union on the 79th anniversary of his birth. Certainly there are few people in...
Meister: What Cesar Chavez Taught Us
Znet Article, March, 24 2006
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This year marks the 38th anniversary of one of the most extreme and effective acts of sacrifice in U.S. labor history - a truly heroic act by farm worker leader Cesar Chavez. For 25 days he fasted, in February and March of 1968, surviving on nothi...
Meister: An End To Capital Punishment?
Znet Article, March, 06 2006
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At last there's real hope for ridding the United States of the barbaric practice of capital punishment. It's actually a possibility, thanks to two doctors who refused to take part in an execution that had been scheduled at California's San Quentin...
Meister: UC's Quest For The Best, Brightest - And Greediest
Znet Article, February, 14 2006
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Scandalous. Outrageous. Astounding. Brazen. Pick your adjective. The sky-high and often secret spending of University of California administrators on each other's salaries and other compensation is all that and probably more. But finally the State...
Meister: The Day Seattle Stood Still
Znet Article, February, 11 2006
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It was 87 years ago this month. It was in Seattle: "Street car gongs ceased their clamor. Newsboys cast their unsold papers into the streets. From the doors of mill and factory, store and workshop, streamed 65,000 working men. School children with...
Meister: Twenty-First Century Injustice
Znet Article, January, 03 2006
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Here we are in the 21st century, yet the United States is still not fully civilized. Unlike most other industrialized countries, we still execute people in the name of the state. To answer killing with more killing is obviously barbaric, an act of...
