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Meister: Hands Off Social Security!
Znet Article, August, 29 2010
Dick Meister
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Republican leaders in Congress would have us believe that most Americans support cutting Social Security and Medicare payments as a way to cut the federal budget deficit. But don't you believe it.
Meister: 'Most Crucial Election In 75 Years'
Znet Article, August, 16 2010
Dick Meister
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Labor and Democratic Party leaders are concerned – and rightly so – that labor's rank-and-file may not turn out in November to support labor-friendly Democrats in the massive numbers that played a major role in the election of President Obama and ...
Meister: Need Better Benefits? Join A Union
Znet Article, August, 10 2010
Dick Meister
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An earlier BLS report on wages showed that union members average $4.95 an hour more than non-union workers doing the same work, a difference of nearly $10,000 a year.
Meister: Safety First!
Znet Article, July, 26 2010
Dick Meister
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The number of serious on-the-job accidents this year have yet again made very clear the urgent need for expanded and tightened government safety regulation. The toll on workers has been high, as President Cecil Roberts of the United Mine Workers u...
Meister: Mooney & Billings: Framed!
Znet Article, July, 22 2010
Dick Meister
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It was an unusually hot July day in San Francisco. There was a parade on that day in 1916 – a “Preparedness Day” parade to drum up support for U.S. entry into World War I.
Meister: Congress Is Acting Stupidly
Znet Article, July, 11 2010
Dick Meister
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AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka has it right. It's not the heat in Washington, D.C., that's bothering him and many other advocates of working people. It's the stupidity - the economic stupidity of Congress refusing to give financial aid to states th...
Meister: Closing The Wealth Gap
Znet Article, July, 05 2010
Dick Meister
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Although the wage gap between white and African-American workers remains wide, it has been shrinking. But that's not so for the more significant black and white wealth gap.
Meister: God's Not On The Side Of Union Busters
Znet Article, June, 22 2010
Dick Meister
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God may or may not be on the side of unions, but a Catholic scholars group says that being on the other side, that is being against unions, is a "grave violation" of the church's social doctrine. Opposing unions is, in fact, a mortal sin. And shou...
Meister: Stop Child Labor On The Farm!
Znet Article, June, 16 2010
Dick Meister
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How inviting it looks, the fruit laid out for us in grocery stores and supermarkets in a profusion of bright color. Red, green, yellow, orange, purple . . . Cherries, grapes, berries. Apples and oranges, bananas, peaches oh, especially the peach...
Meister: Labor's Small Business Friends
Znet Article, June, 06 2010
Dick Meister
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other outspoken foes of organized labor like to claim that small business owners are as anti-union as the notoriously anti-union Chamber and its big business members. But don't you believe it.
Meister: The Governor And The Condemned Man
Znet Article, May, 28 2010
Dick Meister
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It's February 19, 1960. Caryl Chessman, tall, broad-shouldered, hawk nosed, sits on the edge of a hard, narrow bed. Clenching his fists and biting his lips, he stares at the bare walls of Cell 2455, Death Row, then out through a small, barred wind...
Meister: A Disaster For Workers And The Environment
Znet Article, May, 17 2010
Dick Meister
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It's coming up on 10 o'clock in the evening aboard a massive oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon, 130 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. It's Tuesday, April 20. The rig sways gently in the calm waters. Then, suddenly . . . BOOM!
Meister: The Invaluable Legacy Of Willard Wirtz
Znet Article, April, 29 2010
Dick Meister
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Never has there been a greater champion of U.S. workers than former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24 at 98. Certainly in more than a half-century of covering labor, I’ve never met anyone more dedicated - or more effective - ...
Meister: Cheating U.S. Workers
Znet Article, April, 12 2010
Dick Meister
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Hundreds of thousands of workers are being cheated by U.S. employers who blatantly violate the laws that are supposed to guarantee workers decent wages, hours and working conditions.
Meister: Stop Mistreating Working Women!
Znet Article, March, 17 2010
Dick Meister
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Although the global recession has had a serious impact on working men and women alike, two new reports make clear that women in the United States and throughout the world have suffered most because of long-standing discrimination.
Meister: Labor & Obama: Sweethearts No More
Znet Article, March, 07 2010
Dick Meister
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President Obama's honeymoon with organized labor has finally ended. It was a long honeymoon, though more than a year and full of passion. But, alas, labor's ardor has cooled.
Meister: Safe At Last?
Znet Article, March, 01 2010
Dick Meister
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It’s called musculoskeletal disorder or MSD, the most common of the serious injuries suffered by U.S. workers. But because corporate employers fear that greater public awareness would force them to spend more on job safety, MSD has remained one of...
Meister: State By State, Unions Matter
Znet Article, February, 21 2010
Dick Meister
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Union members invariably have better pay and benefits than non-union workers. But, as a new study shows, the number of workers who’ve joined unions varies widely from state to state.
Meister: We Need To Combat Workplace Violence
Znet Article, February, 07 2010
Dick Meister
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Organized labor and its allies are rightly alarmed over the high incidence of on-the-job accidents that have killed or maimed many thousands of workers. But they haven’t forgotten nor should we forget the on-the-job violence that also afflicts...
Meister: Obama's Promise To Women
Znet Article, January, 30 2010
Dick Meister
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One of the most important promises made by President Obama in his State of the Union address has been largely overlooked his promise to “crack down on violations of equal pay laws, so that women get equal pay for an equal day¹s work.”
