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Znet Article Meister: Labor's Big Election Loss

Znet Article, January, 23 2010 Dick Meister
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The Senate Democrats loss of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority seems almost certain to doom attempts to revive the barely functioning National Labor Relations Board, the country's chief labor law administrator and enforcer.

Znet Article Meister: Rights - Finally - For Airport Screeners

Znet Article, December, 27 2009 Dick Meister
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The underpaid, overworked and otherwise poorly treated airport screeners who are essential to air passenger safety may finally be winning their long struggle for the badly needed union rights guaranteed other federal employees.

Znet Article Meister: A Lesson Too Long Unlearned

Znet Article, December, 21 2009 Dick Meister
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Despite the importance of unions in our lives, our schools pay only slight attention to their importance ­ or even to their existence.

Znet Article Meister: Too Damn Old!

Znet Article, December, 19 2009 Dick Meister
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Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age -- sometimes as early as 40 -- and it can make the victim feel unwanted, unneeded and oppressed by all in this work and youth oriented society.

Znet Article Meister: “We Need Jobs! Now!”

Znet Article, November, 30 2009 Dick Meister
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Of all the ideas out there on how to pull us out of the economic mess we’re in, none makes more sense than the program laid out by the AFL-CIO and a coalition of civil rights groups and other organizations.

Commentary Meister: Joe Hill: The Man Who Didn't Die

Commentary, November, 19 2009 Dick Meister
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It's Nov. 19, 1915, in a courtyard of the Utah State Penitentiary in Salt Lake City. Five riflemen take careful aim at a condemned organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill, who stands before them straight and stiff and proud.

Commentary Meister: A Czech Miracle

Commentary, November, 15 2009 Dick Meister
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It's a time of celebration in Prague this month. A time to mark the November day 20 years ago when the "Velvet Revolution" erupted. A time to mark the beginning of the end of the Soviet rule that had crushed democratic reform movements in Czechosl...

Znet Article Meister: Labor Hampered By Vetoes Of Silence

Znet Article, November, 07 2009 Dick Meister
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Nothing is more basic to our democratic society than the principle of majority rule. But what if the eligible voters who fail to cast ballots were automatically recorded as voting "no"?

Znet Article Meister: The Endless Censoring of Labor

Znet Article, October, 15 2009 Dick Meister
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Did you know about the Bush administration's rotten treatment of the air traffic controllers whose work is essential to air safety? That controllers were forced to work long, fatiguing shifts with little time to rest? That many quit because of th...

Znet Article Meister: Young Workers & Our Future

Znet Article, October, 12 2009 Dick Meister
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These are exceptionally painful economic times for the young Americans who will shape our future. Recent academic and labor studies show, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka notes, that "young workers across the board are struggling to keep their ...

Znet Article Meister: Justice At Last For Air Traffic Controllers

Znet Article, October, 03 2009 Dick Meister
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The long struggle of the nation¹s air traffic controllers for decent treatment appears to be finally over the struggle that began in 1981, when President Reagan fired 11,000 controllers for striking and which resumed full force during George Bus...

Znet Article Meister: Here Come The Women!

Znet Article, September, 28 2009 Dick Meister
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Good news for women: Despite the recession - or because of it - women workers will very soon outnumber male workers for the first time in U.S. history.

Znet Article Meister: Obama, Labor And FDR

Znet Article, September, 19 2009 Dick Meister
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It’s clear that Barack Obama is well on the way to becoming the most pro-labor president since Franklin D. Roosevelt - clear that he’s firmly committed to strengthening the vital union rights that FDR secured for U.S. workers seven decades ago.

Znet Article Meister: Labor Day: Safety first

Znet Article, August, 29 2009 Dick Meister
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Unions are marking Labor Day this year with high hopes that the labor-friendly Obama administration will take decisive action to finally ease the severe on-the-job hazards facing U.S. workers.

Znet Article Meister: Labor: The Key To Decent Health Care?

Znet Article, August, 22 2009 Dick Meister
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Organized labor, a major force in the election of President Obama and other key Democrats, is throwing its great political strength into the drive for a reformed health care system that would include the option of a public insurance plan.

Znet Article Meister: The Just Rights Of Workers

Znet Article, June, 30 2009 Dick Meister
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Those seeking to guarantee workers the unfettered right to unionize have a compelling new example of how it can be done: An agreement reached this month [june] by representatives of organized labor and the Catholic health care system.

Znet Article Meister: Jack Henning's Lifelong Crusade

Znet Article, June, 26 2009 Dick Meister
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California lost a remarkable public figure with the death of Jack Henning on June 4 at age 93. Henning, properly John Francis Henning, was not well known outside his base in California, but he was one of the most effective labor leaders in U.S. hi...

Znet Article Meister: Jack Henning's Lifelong Crusade

Znet Article, June, 07 2009 Dick Meister
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California lost a remarkable public figure with the death of John F. Henning on June 4 at age 93. Labor leader, government official, ambassador. Jack Henning had been all of those - and more - during a career that spanned many decades.

Znet Article Meister: Labor's Special Friend

Znet Article, May, 10 2009 Dick Meister
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Barack Obama the presidential candidate declared that the nation needed "a president who doesn't choke on the word 'union.'" But now that Obama has assumed the presidency - and good riddance to his virulently anti-union predecessor -- is he delive...

Znet Article Meister: Hard Times For African-American Workers

Znet Article, April, 20 2009 Dick Meister
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Although many Americans have been hit hard by the continuing - and alarming - growth of unemployment, none have come close to being hit as devastatingly hard as the country's African-American workers.

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