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18 July 2008
A summer of deadly heat
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Dick Meister
The summer heat is posing serious dangers for the farmworkers who’ve helped make California the nation’s leading supplier of fruits and vegetables.

The state has rules designed to protect workers from the devastating...
24 March 2008
An honor long due: Cesar Chavez
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Dick Meister
It’s been 15 years since the death of the United Farm Workers’ Cesar Chavez -- way past time to make his birthdate of March 31 a national holiday. Petitions urging Congress to do just that are now being circulated, appropriately on the...
12 March 2008
Antioch College faculty re-file lawsuit against the university
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Anne Bohlen
March 11, 2008—Members of the Antioch College faculty today announced that they have re-filed their original lawsuit against Antioch University and its Board of Trustees. They had withdrawn their lawsuit without prejudice in November of...
03 March 2006
The Dubai ports purchase: national insecurity -- imported or homegrown?
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Alexander Cockburn
Americans are now in a fever about possible "Arab control" of mainland ports along both coasts of the United States. The battle has followed entirely predictable lines: on the one hand those favoring the Dubai Ports purchase point out that...
21 November 2004
Flight Attendants, the Working Day and Labor Solidarity
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Seth Sandronsky
A nationwide strike of 46,000 flight attendants has been authorized by the board of the Association of Flight Attendants. They are resisting airline employers making workers labor for longer hours at lower wages, and threatening to get...
01 October 2000
AK Steel workers vow 'One day longer!'
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Bob Fitrakis
Mansfield, Ohio’s locked-out AK Steel workers celebrated “One Year of Solidarity” on September 9 by staging a rally and throwing a picnic for a few thousand friends and supporters.

On September 1, 1999, AK Steel, formerly Armco,...

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