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We regret the decision by the UAW negotiators to tentatively agree to place the future health care protection of hundreds of thousands of UAW retired members under a union run Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association, or VEBA. . . .

The deportation of immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano by federal authorities on August 20 was a blow aimed at the immigrant rights movement. Arellano, a 32-year old single mother who had spent a year living in a Chicago church in defiance of a deportation order, had become a spokesperson...

Author(s):
Dan La Botz

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You probably already know that immigrant workers want pretty much the same things any unionized worker wants. A decent job. A living wage. Respect and trust. Some measure of control over their lives.

The other thing you should know is...

What do you get when you mix almost 8,000 striking forestry workers and 5,300 striking municipal workers with a scattering of strikes throughout British Columbia (B.C.) and Alberta? You get a hot summer in Western Canada with 15,000 workers walking picket lines in one province alone. . . .

A rising chorus of business gurus is singing the praises of a new solution to the U.S. auto industry’s ongoing crisis: one big health care trust for all the Big 3’s workers. According to the proposal’s cheerleaders, by making giant one-time pay-ins the Big 3 auto makers can slice off an...

It's easy to see from Dan McCarthy's article in the September 2002 issue that the Labor Party is smaller than it was. I was present at both the Cleveland and Pittsburgh conventions in 1996 and 1998, and the 1,400 and 1,200 delegates present at those meetings was pretty impressive. I was a...