black workers

  • Two Years after Katrina Workers Center Organizes Day Laborers in New Orleans

    Author(s):
    Matt Olson

    Excerpt:
    In a modest office in the central business district of New Orleans, two years after Hurricane Katrina, the Workers Center for Racial Justice organizes the city’s guest workers and day laborers. . . .

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  • Viewpoint: Unity Is Achieved by Confronting Differences, Not Avoiding Them

    Author(s):
    Paul Bigman, Lynne Dodson, Mary Ann Schroeder, and Lonnie Nelson

    Excerpt:
    While we certainly agree that labor must continue our coalition work on globalization, we have concerns with some of the views in Russ Davis’s April Viewpoint...

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  • New York District Attorney Investigates SEIU Local 32B-J Staff "Volunteering" on Mark Green Campaign

    Author(s):
    by Freda Coodin

    Excerpt:
    On November 13 the Manhattan District Attorney subpoenaed the Service Employees International Union Local 32B-J to hand over documents, after the DA was notified of possible violations by a member and dissident leader, Paul Pamias.

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  • Immigrants Find High-Tech Servitude in Silicon Valley

    Author(s):
    by David Bacon

    Excerpt:
    When Kim Singh left India to become a contract worker in Silicon Valley, he thought he would find a good job in the electronics industry. Instead, he found a high-tech sweatshop.

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  • Telephone Workers Fight Discrimination at Ameritech

    Author(s):
    Kim Moody

    Excerpt:
    Backed by their union, members of Communications Workers of America Local 4100 in Detroit have been fighting discriminatory practices at Ameritech, the Chicago-based telephone company that serves much of the midwest. At the center of the fight is a rank and file organization of African American technicians and service representatives known as AAA-EE (Triple A, Double E), which stands for An Alliance of Ameritech Employees for Equality.

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