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Sustar: The story behind Bush's SCHIP veto
Znet Article, November, 28 2007
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WHY DID George W. Bush veto an expansion of the overwhelmingly popular State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)--and why did House Republicans vote to sustain it, even though this will make their poor electoral prospects for 2008 even wor...
Sustar: Immigrant workers in a Chicago factory: Victory on the picket line
Znet Article, August, 17 2007
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THE REMARKABLE struggle of immigrant strikers at South Chicago's Cygnus Corp., a nonunion soap factory, ended August 10 as improbably as it began two weeks earlier-- with dozens of workers jammed into a temporar...
Sustar: Chavez and the meaning of twenty-first century socialism
Znet Article, July, 21 2007
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VENEZUELA'S "BOLIVARIAN Revolution" is moving ahead fast. President Hugo Chávez's government, which began in 1999 with an attempt to implement Tony Blair's "third way," now aims to build "socialism for the twenty-first century." Revenues from the ...
Sustar: The fight against deportations
Znet Article, May, 18 2007
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A NEW faith-based movement to "awaken the moral imagination of the country" hopes to provide san...
Sustar: Feds okay firing of immigrant workers
Znet Article, September, 14 2006
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EMPLOYERS ARE using Social Security data to target and dismiss immigrant workers in view of proposed changes to government regulations--and if the rules formally take effect, millions of workers’ jobs could be at risk. The regulations wou...
Sustar: Iran Policies
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
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A U.S. military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would be used to repackage the occupation of Iraq as part of Washington’s “long war†on “radical Islam,†give Israel a blank check to crush the Palestinia...
Sustar: Showdown at Delphi
Znet Article, November, 09 2005
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JIM BAEMMERT will tell you that he was always the biggest proponent of labor-management cooperation at the Delphi Automotive Systems catalytic converter plant in Oak Creek, Wis. He saw collaboration as the key to the survival of the plant’...
Sustar: Katrina Exposes Racism
Znet Article, August, 31 2005
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DECADES OF OFFICIAL neglect, racism and the impact of global warming magnified the destructive impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and other parts of the South. The mainstream media focused most on the big-money property losses--for exampl...
Sustar: Showdown at Northwest
Znet Article, August, 25 2005
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WILL ORGANIZED labor stand by as Northwest Airlines--backed by Wall Street and the White House--tries to destroy the striking mechanics union? The walkout by 4,400 members of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) August 20 has posed...
Sustar: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Venezuela: Assessing the Role of the AFL-CIO
Znet Article, July, 22 2005
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José Gil’s walk across the shop floor would appear familiar to trade unionists across the United States. As a local union official at the vast CVG Alcasa aluminum plant in Venezuela’s Ciudad Guyana, he made the rounds on a short S...
Sustar: The Failure of Partnership
Znet Article, July, 19 2005
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THE AFL-CIO could be marking its fiftieth anniversary with a split. A contested vote over a restructuring proposal at the federation’s executive committee meeting in March sets the stage for a final confrontation at the July convention in ...
Sustar: CAFTA trade deal sparks struggle across Central America
Znet Article, June, 09 2005
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A PROPOSAL to extend NAFTA southward has triggered mass opposition in Central America--and could even be in trouble in the U.S. Congress as well. Organized labor has been lobbying against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which i...
Sustar: Social Security Con Job
Znet Article, January, 13 2005
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SAY YOU’RE expecting to rely on a modest retirement fund. Along comes a hotshot stockbroker promising that if he can handle your money, he’ll guarantee you 15 or 40 percent less of a payout than you would have gotten in the first p...
Sustar: Crunch time at airlines
Znet Article, January, 08 2005
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JOB ACTIONS over US Airways’ attempt to void union contracts--and threats of similar actions at United Airlines--shook up air travel...
Sustar: Christmas on the Picket Line
Znet Article, December, 17 2004
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WITH JUST 635 workers on the picket line, the lockout at farm equipment maker CNH Global might seem to be just one small battle in the endless corporate war on labor. In fact, it’s a struggle that tests whether the United Auto Workers (U...
Sustar: Ukraine's Election Crisis
Znet Article, December, 02 2004
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THE ELECTION standoff in Ukraine is portrayed in the U.S. media as a battle between pro-Wash...
Sustar: Corporate America Is Trying To Steal Our Future
Znet Article, October, 14 2004
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THE CORPORATE vultures who grabbed pension funds for profits in the 1990s are out to slash those retirement funds today--or abandon their obligations altogether. The attack is sharpest in the airline and steel industries, where a series of bankr...
Sustar: Iran In The Crosshairs
Znet Article, September, 30 2004
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WASHINGTON’S PRESSURE over Iran’s nuclear program is setting the stage for a major confrontation, including a possible military attack--either by Israel or U.S. forces directly. Already a charter member of George W. Bush’s ...
Sustar: Labor Against The War
Znet Article, July, 09 2004
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THE CONVENTIONS of the two biggest unions in the AFL-CIO last month voted to call for an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and to bring the troops home. The resolutions highlight the changes in organized labor since the Vietnam War era, when al...
Sustar: Taking on Wal Mart
Znet Article, June, 25 2004
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WAL-MART bosses are finally starting to feel some heat for the company’s notoriously anti-worker policies. A federal judge ruled June 22 that women employees of the retail giant could go forward with a class action lawsuit over wage ...
