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On the Mississippi coast, cranes are moving again over Navy warships at the sprawling Ingalls shipyards. Half a mile from the sleepy town of Pascagoula, the median at the entrance to the yards where striking workers chanted, sang, and sometimes prayed is quiet, and at the end of the workday a...

“People were just sick and tired of feeling like nobody would pay any attention to them,” said Doris Tuckwiller-Wood, one of 5,000 teachers in 14 different West Virginia counties who went on strike March 14. “We can’t just go back in the classroom and be good little teachers because they threw...

Tens of thousands of auto workers and community supporters marched in the port city of Cadiz, Spain on March 1 to protest the decision of auto parts maker Delphi to close its plant in nearby Puerto Real. The decision, announced February 22, would cost up to 1,600 Delphi workers their jobs. The...

The AFL-CIO has finally endorsed a solution to the health care crisis that looks and sounds a lot like a singlepayer system. A statement released March 6 by the federation’s executive council during its meeting in Las Vegas did not use the phrase “single-payer,” but it heaped praise on Medicare...

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is one of the most important pieces of legislation being considered by the new Congress, yet many working people have probably never heard of it. If they have, they have most likely heard the version that corporate America wants them to hear: that the bill...

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Julie Robert and Helen Ho

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When Michigan voters went to the polls in November 2004, they were asked to consider Proposal 2, which asked whether “the union of one man and one woman in marriage shall be the only agreement recognized as a marriage or similar...

For the 15 million retail workers in the United States, the odds of being in a union are low. According to the nonprofit Labor Research Association, retail unionization was just 6.2 percent in 2003. While the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) has made some gains for grocery and...