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07 March 2009
Join a union, get fired
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Dick Meister
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...
22 February 2009
An RX for nurses -- and us, too
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Dick Meister
Those who are seeking reform of the woefully inadequate health care system have a new and powerful ally that aims to put the bulk of the country’s registered nurses behind a drive to guarantee decent health care to all Americans.
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20 February 2009
Jobs may decline, unions won't
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Dick Meister
After nearly a half-century of steady decline, American unions are showing unmistakable signs that they’re finally reversing direction.

The clearest evidence of that comes in a survey by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics...
10 February 2009
Sit down! Sit down!
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Dick Meister
This is not a happy time for American autoworkers. Their employers are cutting thousands of jobs, closing plants, and demanding – and getting – major pay and benefit concessions from their union.

Normally, February would be a...
02 February 2009
Bolsheviks in Seattle?
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Dick Meister
It’s the 90th anniversary this month of the general strike that brought the city of Seattle to a virtual standstill -- one of the very few general strikes in U.S.history and certainly one of the most dramatic and disruptive.
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30 December 2008
Help at last for air traffic controllers
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Dick Meister
Few government employees have more important responsibilities than the federal air traffic controllers whose primary job is to protect the safety of the ever-growing number of air travelers. Yet few federal employees are more badly treated...

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