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Znet Article Meister: What Cesar Chavez Taught Us

Znet Article, March, 24 2006 Dick Meister
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This year marks the 38th anniversary of one of the most extreme and effective acts of sacrifice in U.S. labor history - a truly heroic act by farm worker leader Cesar Chavez. For 25 days he fasted, in February and March of 1968, surviving on nothi...

Znet Article Meister: An End To Capital Punishment?

Znet Article, March, 06 2006 Dick Meister
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At last there's real hope for ridding the United States of the barbaric practice of capital punishment. It's actually a possibility, thanks to two doctors who refused to take part in an execution that had been scheduled at California's San Quentin...

Znet Article Meister: UC's Quest For The Best, Brightest - And Greediest

Znet Article, February, 14 2006 Dick Meister
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Scandalous. Outrageous. Astounding. Brazen. Pick your adjective. The sky-high and often secret spending of University of California administrators on each other's salaries and other compensation is all that and probably more. But finally the State...

Znet Article Meister: The Day Seattle Stood Still

Znet Article, February, 11 2006 Dick Meister
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It was 87 years ago this month. It was in Seattle: "Street car gongs ceased their clamor. Newsboys cast their unsold papers into the streets. From the doors of mill and factory, store and workshop, streamed 65,000 working men. School children with...

Znet Article Meister: Twenty-First Century Injustice

Znet Article, January, 03 2006 Dick Meister
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Here we are in the 21st century, yet the United States is still not fully civilized. Unlike most other industrialized countries, we still execute people in the name of the state. To answer killing with more killing is obviously barbaric, an act of...

Znet Article Meister: New Cold Warriors

Znet Article, December, 16 2005 Dick Meister
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You might reasonably think the outrageous red-baiting of Sen. Joseph McCarthy that's at the heart of the current film, "Good Night, and Good Luck," is a relic of the fanatic anti-communism of the 1950s. But think again. Think of what was done just...

Znet Article Meister: Restoring A Human Right

Znet Article, December, 10 2005 Dick Meister
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The words in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights are unequivocal: "Everyone has the right to form and join a trade union."  Few rights are more important. Yet few rights are more widely violated. Which is why a coalition of ...

Znet Article Meister: A Necessary Standard Of Living

Znet Article, December, 04 2005 Dick Meister
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There's nary a member of Congress' Republican majority who hasn't spoken with great sympathy about the poor folks who were the principal victims of Hurricane Katrina, or who hasn't expressed sympathy for the millions of other Americans who suffer ...

Znet Article Meister: Viva La Causa!

Znet Article, November, 11 2005 Dick Meister
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The United Farm Workers union is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the extraordinary grape strike that brought California's sorely oppressed farmworkers worldwide support in their struggle for the basic rights long denied them and the millions o...

Znet Article Meister: A Nation "Under God"? Hardly

Znet Article, November, 07 2005 Dick Meister
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Religious Americans and the politicians who cater to them are exposing yet again their intolerance of the minority of Americans who don't share their beliefs. Those in the religious majority claim to respect minority rights. But that's clearly not...

Znet Article Meister: The Terminator Vs. Labor

Znet Article, November, 01 2005 Dick Meister
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The battle rages on in California: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wealthy corporate and business friends vs. teachers, nurses, firefighters and other public employees and their unions. The outcome is sure to have a major national impact -- esp...

Znet Article Meister: The Steelworkers' Bloody Battle

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 Dick Meister
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It was 86 years ago this month -- September of 1919 -- that angry steelworkers launched one of the most fierce, most bloody and most important of the many battles that created the American labor movement. Just 10 months earlier, the United States...

Znet Article Meister: Labor

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Dick Meister
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This is not a happy time for the labor movement. But though unions are in deep trouble, their membership numbers and economic and political influence steadily declining, their future actually looks promising. Conventional wisdom has it that the l...

Znet Article Meister: Labor's Day -- And Yours

Znet Article, September, 04 2005 Dick Meister
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Labor Day. Time again for politicians and union adherents to praise organized labor. Time again for others to pontificate about the supposed decline and growing irrelevance of unions as they continue to lose members and continue to argue among the...

Znet Article Meister: You Will Eat, Bye And Bye

Znet Article, August, 25 2005 Dick Meister
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It's the 100th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World -- the IWW, one of the most influential yet ultimately unsuccessful organizations in U.S. history, founded in Chicago in 1905 by a band of fiercely dedicated idealists. The Wobblie...

Znet Article Meister: Contraceptive Equity

Znet Article, August, 14 2005 Dick Meister
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It's called "contraceptive equity," and it's one of the newest and most important demands being raised by union activists. They're insisting that employers, whose health insurance plans pay for many preventive drugs, devices and services, cover t...

Znet Article Meister: Is It Labor Party Time?

Znet Article, August, 11 2005 Dick Meister
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Here's an idea for those who are trying to revitalize the badly slumping labor movement: Create a Labor Party that would truly represent America's working people and truly challenge the Democratic and Republican parties. Far-fetched? Sure. But th...

Znet Article Meister: The Legacy Of Wheatland

Znet Article, August, 05 2005 Dick Meister
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It was a blistering hot day in August of 1913. Dust rose in lazy, steady swirls from a barren field near the Northern California town of Wheatland where some 2,000 hop pickers had gathered tightly around a makeshift platform to hear radical organi...

Znet Article Meister: The NLRA At 70: A Promise Not Kept

Znet Article, August, 01 2005 Dick Meister
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of National Labor Relations Act, the Depression-era law that was ­ and still is ­ essential to the well-being of working Americans. But hold the applause, please. It¹s not celebration that¹s wanted. It¹s reform...

Znet Article Meister: Harmful, Undeserved Punishment

Znet Article, July, 28 2005 Dick Meister
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Nearly five million American citizens are denied the right to vote ­ one of every 50 citizens. That includes 13 percent of all African-American men nationwide, up to almost twice that percentage in particular states and the majority of adults ­ bl...

Znet Article Meister: The Remarkable Harry Bridges

Znet Article, July, 23 2005 Dick Meister
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July 28 marks the lO4th anniversary of the birth of labor leader Harry Bridges, one of the past century's greatest leaders of any kind, an incorruptible fighter for the human rights of us all, a man of remarkable vision, courage, dedication and or...

Znet Article Meister: Living In The 21st Century, Working In The 19th

Znet Article, July, 20 2005 Dick Meister
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Imagine workers who must be at their job site 24 hours a day, alone and on constant call. Whose crumbling living quarters at the sites lack electricity, running water and bathrooms. And whose pay is no more than $1,200 a month. No, this is not a h...

Znet Article Meister: Job Safety

Znet Article, July, 15 2005 Dick Meister
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Pay attention, damnit: More than 6,000 Americans are killed on the job every year. More than three million are injured, at least half of them seriously. Another 60,000 die from cancer, lung and heart ailments and other diseases caused by exposure ...

Znet Article Meister: A Bloody Day In San Francisco

Znet Article, July, 06 2005 Dick Meister
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San Franciscans are marking the 71st anniversary of "Bloody Thursday" on July 5 -  that day in 1934 when open warfare raged on the city's waterfront. a key day in the struggle of workers everywhere to form effective unions. The battle pitted 1,00...

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