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Znet Article Meister: Thieving Employers Costing Us Millions

Znet Article, December, 19 2010 Dick Meister
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There are lots of thieves in this country, as in any country. But no thieves anywhere are more blatant than the U.S. employers who steal millions of dollars from their own employees – often right out in the open, unchallenged. It's called "wage...

Znet Article Meister: Investing In The Future

Znet Article, November, 23 2010 Dick Meister
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The nation's crumbling infrastructure is in very serious need of rebuilding. There's absolutely no doubt about that.

Znet Article Meister: Election Over, What Next?

Znet Article, November, 09 2010 Dick Meister
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OK, the election is over and labor, Democrats and the other good guys came up a bit short. But what now? What next for the good guys?

Znet Article Meister: Labor's Outreach

Znet Article, October, 19 2010 Dick Meister
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Never have the nation's younger workers been more in need of unionization. And never have the nation's unions been more in need of the membership growth that recruiting younger workers can bring them.

Znet Article Meister: A Trio Of Great Hispanic Leaders

Znet Article, October, 09 2010 Dick Meister
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It's Hispanic Heritage Month, an excellent time to remember three of the most important Hispanic labor leaders in U.S. history. All three were engaged in the much needed and very tough job of organizing and improving the generally poor conditions ...

Znet Article Meister: 9/11 Rescuers Need Rescuing

Znet Article, September, 20 2010 Dick Meister
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A new AFL-CIO report shows that more than 13,000 of the truly heroic firefighters, police and other rescuers who were the first to rush to the scene of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001 are still being treate...

Znet Article Meister: Labor Day Heroes

Znet Article, September, 04 2010 Dick Meister
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Let's pause for a moment this Labor Day to recognize some of our most important, yet most maligned workers.

Znet Article Meister: Hands Off Social Security!

Znet Article, August, 29 2010 Dick Meister
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Republican leaders in Congress would have us believe that most Americans support cutting Social Security and Medicare payments as a way to cut the federal budget deficit. But don't you believe it.

Znet Article Meister: 'Most Crucial Election In 75 Years'

Znet Article, August, 16 2010 Dick Meister
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Labor and Democratic Party leaders are concerned – and rightly so – that labor's rank-and-file may not turn out in November to support labor-friendly Democrats in the massive numbers that played a major role in the election of President Obama and ...

Znet Article Meister: Need Better Benefits? Join A Union

Znet Article, August, 10 2010 Dick Meister
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An earlier BLS report on wages showed that union members average $4.95 an hour more than non-union workers doing the same work, a difference of nearly $10,000 a year.

Znet Article Meister: Safety First!

Znet Article, July, 26 2010 Dick Meister
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The number of serious on-the-job accidents this year have yet again made very clear the urgent need for expanded and tightened government safety regulation. The toll on workers has been high, as President Cecil Roberts of the United Mine Workers u...

Znet Article Meister: Mooney & Billings: Framed!

Znet Article, July, 22 2010 Dick Meister
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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.

Znet Article Meister: Congress Is Acting Stupidly

Znet Article, July, 11 2010 Dick Meister
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AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka has it right. It's not the heat in Washington, D.C., that's bothering him and many other advocates of working people. It's the stupidity - the economic stupidity of Congress refusing to give financial aid to states th...

Znet Article Meister: Closing The Wealth Gap

Znet Article, July, 05 2010 Dick Meister
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Although the wage gap between white and African-American workers remains wide, it has been shrinking. But that's not so for the more significant black and white wealth gap.

Znet Article Meister: God's Not On The Side Of Union Busters

Znet Article, June, 22 2010 Dick Meister
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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...

Znet Article Meister: Stop Child Labor On The Farm!

Znet Article, June, 16 2010 Dick Meister
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How inviting it looks, the fruit laid out for us in grocery stores and supermarkets in a profusion of bright color. Red, green, yellow, orange, purple . . . Cherries, grapes, berries. Apples and oranges, bananas, peaches ­ oh, especially the peach...

Znet Article Meister: Labor's Small Business Friends

Znet Article, June, 06 2010 Dick Meister
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other outspoken foes of organized labor like to claim that small business owners are as anti-union as the notoriously anti-union Chamber and its big business members. But don't you believe it.

Znet Article Meister: The Governor And The Condemned Man

Znet Article, May, 28 2010 Dick Meister
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It's February 19, 1960. Caryl Chessman, tall, broad-shouldered, hawk nosed, sits on the edge of a hard, narrow bed. Clenching his fists and biting his lips, he stares at the bare walls of Cell 2455, Death Row, then out through a small, barred wind...

Znet Article Meister: A Disaster For Workers And The Environment

Znet Article, May, 17 2010 Dick Meister
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It's coming up on 10 o'clock in the evening aboard a massive oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon, 130 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. It's Tuesday, April 20. The rig sways gently in the calm waters. Then, suddenly . . . BOOM!

Znet Article Meister: The Invaluable Legacy Of Willard Wirtz

Znet Article, April, 29 2010 Dick Meister
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Never has there been a greater champion of U.S. workers than former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24 at 98. Certainly in more than a half-century of covering labor, I’ve never met anyone more dedicated - or more effective - ...

Znet Article Meister: Cheating U.S. Workers

Znet Article, April, 12 2010 Dick Meister
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Hundreds of thousands of workers are being cheated by U.S. employers who blatantly violate the laws that are supposed to guarantee workers decent wages, hours and working conditions.

Znet Article Meister: Stop Mistreating Working Women!

Znet Article, March, 17 2010 Dick Meister
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Although the global recession has had a serious impact on working men and women alike, two new reports make clear that women in the United States and throughout the world have suffered most because of long-standing discrimination.

Znet Article Meister: Labor & Obama: Sweethearts No More

Znet Article, March, 07 2010 Dick Meister
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President Obama's honeymoon with organized labor has finally ended. It was a long honeymoon, though more than a year and full of passion. But, alas, labor's ardor has cooled.

Znet Article Meister: Safe At Last?

Znet Article, March, 01 2010 Dick Meister
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It’s called musculoskeletal disorder or MSD, the most common of the serious injuries suffered by U.S. workers. But because corporate employers fear that greater public awareness would force them to spend more on job safety, MSD has remained one of...

Znet Article Meister: State By State, Unions Matter

Znet Article, February, 21 2010 Dick Meister
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Union members invariably have better pay and benefits than non-union workers. But, as a new study shows, the number of workers who’ve joined unions varies widely from state to state.

Znet Article Meister: We Need To Combat Workplace Violence

Znet Article, February, 07 2010 Dick Meister
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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...

Znet Article Meister: Obama's Promise To Women

Znet Article, January, 30 2010 Dick Meister
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One of the most important promises made by President Obama in his State of the Union address has been largely overlooked ­ his promise to “crack down on violations of equal pay laws, so that women get equal pay for an equal day¹s work.”

Znet Article Meister: Labor's Big Election Loss

Znet Article, January, 23 2010 Dick Meister
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The Senate Democrats loss of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority seems almost certain to doom attempts to revive the barely functioning National Labor Relations Board, the country's chief labor law administrator and enforcer.

Znet Article Meister: Rights - Finally - For Airport Screeners

Znet Article, December, 27 2009 Dick Meister
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The underpaid, overworked and otherwise poorly treated airport screeners who are essential to air passenger safety may finally be winning their long struggle for the badly needed union rights guaranteed other federal employees.

Znet Article Meister: A Lesson Too Long Unlearned

Znet Article, December, 21 2009 Dick Meister
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Despite the importance of unions in our lives, our schools pay only slight attention to their importance ­ or even to their existence.

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