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Sustar: Defying The Police State In Miami
Znet Article, December, 05 2003
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"WELCOME TO the police state of Miami." That’s Florida AFL-CIO President Cynthia Hall’s greeting to thousands of union members gathering in the city’s Bayfront Park Amphitheater on November 20, as we prepare to march agains...
Sustar: Steel And The Politics Of Free Trade
Znet Article, November, 21 2003
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IS AMERICAN steel a rust-belt relic or a pillar of the U.S. economy? Should organized labor support high tariffs in an effort to defend steel jobs and manufacturing employment overall? These questions came to the fore last week after the World Tra...
Sustar: Taking A Stand For Health Care
Znet Article, November, 10 2003
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THE BIG grocery strikes in Southern California and the Midwest have put a spotlight on the rapidly worsening health care crisis in the U.S.--and the efforts of employers to push rising costs onto workers. "The tens of thousands of workers who are ...
Sustar: What's Behind Liberia's Crisis
Znet Article, July, 13 2003
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THE RHETORIC is about AIDS and poverty, but the agenda is oil and empire. George W. Bush’s mid-July tour of Africa highlighted the ways in which the U.S. is consolidating its economic and strategic role across the continent--from preparing...
Sustar: What A Fraud!
Znet Article, July, 08 2003
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IT’S A Medicare massacre under the guise of "reform." George W. Bush’s proposed prescription drug benefit program for Medicare recipients would funnel billions of dollars to the giant health insurance and pharmaceutical companies--...
Sustar: Union Leaders Sound Alarm
Znet Article, May, 24 2003
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KEY UNION leaders are finally sounding the alarm about the crisis in organized labor--and they’re calling for bold action to rebuild the movement. At a 300-person organizing conference May 14 hosted by the Chicago Federation of Lab...
Sustar: They're Out To Gut Medicare
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
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GEORGE W. Bush has an offer for the HMO bosses who ditched 2 million Medicare recipients in recent years. Come back--and we’ll guarantee your profits at the expense of seniors. The Bush administration announced its "revised" Medic...
Sustar: 2002: Year Of The Almost Strikes
Znet Article, February, 20 2003
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WILL 2003 be the year that labor finally fights back? Certainly employers are pushing unions to the wall. From wage cuts ordered by bankruptcy judges at United Airlines and US Airways to the wipeout of retiree benefits in the buyout of ban...
Sustar: What's In The Dockworkers Deal?
Znet Article, December, 05 2002
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WHEN UNION leaders and the Wall Street Journal both hail a labor agreement, rank-and-file workers have to ask: Can this deal really be good for us? That question will dominate the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Coast Caucus mee...
Sustar: White House Union Busters
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
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STRIPPING UNION rights from tens of thousands of federal workers. Outsourcing 850,000 government jobs. Holding a gun to the heads of West Coast dockworkers by invoking the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act. That’s the record of George W....
Sustar: Dockworkers In The Dark
Znet Article, November, 15 2002
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WHY WON’T leaders of the West Coast dockworkers’ union tell rank-and-file members what’s in the tentative technology agreement with management? After enduring a 10-day lockout by employers, and intervention by the ...
Sustar: This is Union Busting!
Znet Article, October, 31 2002
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AN UNPRECEDENTED alliance of transnational corporations and politicians of both parties is behind the U.S. government’s attempt to break the West Coast dockworkers’ union. George W. Bush’s intervention under the an...
Sustar: Defending The ILWU
Znet Article, October, 25 2002
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SAN FRANCISCO--Shipping bosses are preparing to use an 80-day federal court injunction to attack the West Coast dockworkers’ union. And the Bush administration is ready to help. As Socialist Worker went to press, the Pacific Marit...
Sustar: An Attack On All Workers
Znet Article, October, 17 2002
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SHIPPING BOSSES are aggressively using George W. Bush’s intervention in the West Coast dockworkers’ contract dispute to gut the union’s power. Technically, the Taft-Hartley Act invoked by Bush empowered a federal j...
Sustar: We Support The Dockworkers!
Znet Article, October, 10 2002
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GEORGE W. Bush and the employers want to use the Taft-Hartley Act--America’s notorious "slave labor law"--to break the West Coast dockworkers’ union. But members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) hav...
Sustar: Employers Attack: Unions Blink
Znet Article, September, 20 2002
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WITH THE Bush administration firmly behind them, employers are aggressively moving to break the strength of some of the historically most powerful unions in the U.S.--on the West Coast docks, in the airlines, and beyond. Yet rather than prepare u...
Sustar: The War At Accuride
Znet Article, March, 05 2002
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WHEN UAW President Stephen Yokich was asked recently about the UAW’s failure to organize European and Japanese-owned auto assembly operations, he had a ready answer. "The places they’ve built their plants are nonunion areas, ...
