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Meister: Danger and Death In the Tobacco Fields
Commentary, September, 27 2012
Dick Meister
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There are nearly 100,000 tobacco harvesters, some as young as 12, most of them Mexican immigrants
Meister: Bread and Roses
Commentary, July, 07 2012
Dick Meister
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Bread and roses was the battle cry of thousands of striking women and their supporters
Meister: The Plight of the Pregnant Worker
Commentary, February, 12 2012
Dick Meister
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Since pregnancy itself is not considered a disability, employers are not required to accommodate most pregnant workers in any way
Meister: It's Do Or Die for the United Auto Workers
Commentary, January, 15 2012
Dick Meister
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The situation facing the United Auto Workers, long one of America's most important institutions, is indeed drastic
Meister: Unemployment Slamming Public Employees
Commentary, December, 11 2011
Dick Meister
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The latest job reports show that public employees are being hit particularly hard by the country's severe unemployment problems
Meister: Newt's Wacko Idea
Commentary, November, 27 2011
Dick Meister
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This surely puts Gingrich right where he belongs, squarely in the 18th century
Meister: Busting the Union Busters
Commentary, September, 01 2011
Dick Meister
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Gov. Walker remains the poster boy for anti-labor stalwarts
Meister: Job Discrimination Hitting Women Hard
Commentary, August, 15 2011
Dick Meister
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Only about one-fourth of the discrimination charges against employers ever wind up in court
Meister: Labor's Unhappy Anniversary
Commentary, August, 10 2011
Dick Meister
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Hiring and permanently replacing strikers, previously a rare occurrence, has become a relatively common employer tactic
Meister: New Hope for Domestic Workers
Commentary, July, 24 2011
Dick Meister
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Among other things, proponents hope to make it clear that "domestic workers are real workers, NOT powerless individuals who are expected to remain in quiet servitude
Meister: Farm Workers Need Drastic Change
Commentary, July, 07 2011
Dick Meister
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No workers are more in need of union protection than the nation's miserably treated farm workers
Meister: Paid Sick Leave Good For Us All
Commentary, June, 26 2011
Dick Meister
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Public health experts note that the fewer the number of workers who are able to stay at home when sick, the more likely it is that diseases will spread
Meister: MLK Was A Working-Class Hero
Commentary, January, 16 2011
Dick Meister
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"I AM A MAN," the signs proclaimed in large, bold letters. They were held high, proudly and defiantly, by African-American men marching through the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, in the spring of 1968.
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.
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...
