It's the 75th anniversary of what's known in labor lore as "The Big Strike"
-- the remarkable event that brought open warfare to San Francisco's
waterfront, led to one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history and
played a key role...
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18 April 2009
Although many Americans have been hit hard by the continuing – and alarming
– growth of unemployment, none have come close to being hit as devastatingly
hard as the country’s African-American workers.
The unemployment rate...
The unemployment rate...
28 March 2009
Another season of professional baseball is upon us, another season of a
sport that’s billed as the “National Pastime,” yet bars half the population
– the female half – from the playing field.
Major and minor league teams, as...
Major and minor league teams, as...
22 March 2009
It’s way past time that Congress declared the March 31 birthdate of Cesar
Chavez a national holiday. President Obama agrees. So do the millions of
people who are expected to sign petitions being circulated by the United
Farm Workers, the...
14 March 2009
The preliminaries are over and what’s certain to be one of the fiercest
political fights in many years is finally underway. It pits the nation’s
labor unions and their Democratic allies against the pillars of corporate
America and their...
07 March 2009
Yes, the National Labor Relations Act says workers have the right to
organize and join unions. Yet a new study shows that growing numbers of them
risk being fired for attempting to unionize.
In more than one-fourth of the...
In more than one-fourth of the...
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