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Meister: Six Ways to Heal the Economy
Znet Article, December, 04 2011
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The AFL-CIO has come up with an ambitious six-point plan for healing our very sick economy
Meister: Jobless In Wonderland
Znet Article, December, 01 2011
Dick Meister
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That's right, being jobless keeps many workers from being hired for many of the jobs that are available
Meister: Ohio Lessons
Znet Article, November, 19 2011
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The Ohio vote demonstrated that it is possible to garner the votes necessary to overcome the forces that would deny us vital economic and political rights
Meister: Labor & the Occupiers: A Natural Fit
Znet Article, November, 12 2011
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Unions need to make clear, in words and deeds, that they are indeed facing the same problems and opponents as the occupiers
Meister: Respect For Car Wash Workers – At Last
Znet Article, October, 31 2011
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The contract terms are modest, but they're an important, badly needed start
Meister: Bridging the Income Gap
Znet Article, October, 22 2011
Dick Meister
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Unions, which had much to do with pulling the nation out of the Great Depression and helping establish a true middle class, are in position to provide help that is as necessary in 2011
Meister: "March Together, Vote Together, Fight Together"
Znet Article, October, 18 2011
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Few American leaders have been more loved and influential, yet more hated, than Gene Debs
Meister: NLRB Under Heavy Attack
Znet Article, September, 26 2011
Dick Meister
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The nation's ever-determined anti-labor forces have opened a new front
Meister: Time to Declare a New War on Poverty
Znet Article, September, 18 2011
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It's certain that poverty-based miseries will increase unless we act forcefully to pull millions of our fellow citizens out of the quicksand of poverty
Meister: Heroes Who Did Their Jobs on 9/11
Znet Article, September, 11 2011
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Consider what public employees did on September 11, 2001
Meister: Caring For the Elderly
Znet Article, August, 04 2011
Dick Meister
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Hiring Home Health Care workers is becoming harder, mainly because of the poor pay and working conditions
Meister: Workers Gaining In Fight for Union Rights
Znet Article, July, 27 2011
Dick Meister
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The labor board obviously has not been acting as an agent of unions, big or small
Meister: Can A Woman Beat Hoffa?
Znet Article, June, 19 2011
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Like many dissident Teamsters, Sandy Pope is "sick of having a lawyer with a big name hijack our union."
Meister: The Minimum Wage is a Poverty Wage
Znet Article, June, 09 2011
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Far too many workers have no choice but to take minimum wage jobs
Meister: Unions Save Lives
Znet Article, June, 06 2011
Dick Meister
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Workers in unionized mines are far less likely to be killed or seriously injured
Meister: Child Labor: Back to the 19th Century?
Znet Article, May, 15 2011
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People are taking seriously child labor proposals that would send us back to the 19th century
Meister: Mooney & Billings: Framed!
Znet Article, July, 22 2010
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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: God's Not On The Side Of Union Busters
Znet Article, June, 22 2010
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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: We Need To Combat Workplace Violence
Znet Article, February, 07 2010
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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: Labor Day: Safety first
Znet Article, August, 29 2009
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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.
