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Meister: It's Not True, What They Say About Pensions
Znet Article, March, 24 2012
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Despite what you may have heard, government pension funds are not going broke
Meister: Labor's David Vs. GOP's Goliath
Znet Article, March, 17 2012
Dick Meister
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Unions will be campaigning at least as hard to defeat the many anti-union Republicans who are running at the local, state and national level and threatening the very existence of unions
Meister: Apple's Unethical Innovation
Znet Article, March, 03 2012
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Apple's choice has been to move its manufacturing to overseas facilities where it can indeed get work done "faster and cheaper"
Meister: The IWW Legacy
Znet Article, February, 25 2012
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The Occupy Wall Street Movement and the other anti-capitalist forces of today could find no greater inspiration than the Industrial Workers of the World
Meister: The Farm Workers' Filipino American Champion
Znet Article, February, 19 2012
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Larry Itliong got involved in the farm workers' struggle very early in life, not long after he arrived as a 15-year-old immigrant from the Philippine Islands
Meister: Sit Down, Punk!
Znet Article, February, 03 2012
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In 1969, at the AFL-CIO's national convention in Atlantic City, Carter, a 28-year-old delegate, dared stand up to oppose a resolution unconditionally supporting the Vietnam War
Meister: So, What About The State Of The Unions, Mr. President?
Znet Article, January, 28 2012
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The president's failure to mention one of the country's most important economic and political institutions was unfortunate
Meister: Walter Johnson Did What Needed To Be Done
Znet Article, January, 18 2012
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Walter Johnson was everything a labor leader should be – a dedicated, unflinching, champion of working people and their unions
Meister: Student Athletes Deserve Pay For Their Play
Znet Article, January, 06 2012
Dick Meister
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Drop the fiction that student athletes are amateurs and openly pay them for their play
Meister: A Decent Living For All?
Znet Article, December, 25 2011
Dick Meister
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Studies show that even during times of high unemployment, raising the minimum does not lead to a loss of jobs
Meister: Stamp Out Sexual Harassment!
Znet Article, December, 20 2011
Dick Meister
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About one-fourth of the country's working women report having been sexually harassed on the job
Meister: Six Ways to Heal the Economy
Znet Article, December, 04 2011
Dick Meister
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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
Dick Meister
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People are taking seriously child labor proposals that would send us back to the 19th century
Meister: $11-Million-A-Year Bandits
Znet Article, April, 24 2011
Dick Meister
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has an important question for you.
Meister: Rebuilding The American Middle Class
Znet Article, April, 16 2011
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Of all the many comments, pro and con, that have been made about the widespread attempts to weaken American unions, none have been clearer or more on the mark than the words of President Bob King of the United Auto Workers Union.
Meister: Teachers Need Strong Unions
Znet Article, March, 16 2011
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Like many people, I'm sure, Washington Post writer Matt Miller is confused about, "where to come down on the question of who should 'win''" in the struggle of public employees against attempts to strip them of collective bargaining rights and othe...
