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WHY DID George W. Bush veto an expansion of the overwhelmingly popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)–and why did House Republicans…
Lee Sustar
Lee Sustar is a writer and activist in Chicago.
THE REMARKABLE struggle of immigrant strikers at South Chicago’s Cygnus Corp., a nonunion soap factory, ended August 10 as improbably as it…
VENEZUELA‘S “BOLIVARIAN Revolution” is moving ahead fast. President Hugo Chávez’s government, which began in 1999 with an attempt to implement Tony…
A NEW faith-based movement to “awaken the moral imagination of the country” hopes to provide sanctuary for undocumented immigrants whose deportation would…
EMPLOYERS ARE using Social Security data to target and dismiss immigrant workers in view of proposed changes to government regulations–and if the…
A U.S. military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would be used to repackage the occupation of Iraq as part of Washington’s “long…
JIM BAEMMERT will tell you that he was always the biggest proponent of labor-management cooperation at the Delphi Automotive Systems catalytic converter…
DECADES OF OFFICIAL neglect, racism and the impact of global warming magnified the destructive impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and…
WILL ORGANIZED labor stand by as Northwest Airlines–backed by Wall Street and the White House–tries to destroy the striking mechanics union? The…
Jose Gil’s walk across the shop floor would appear familiar to trade unionists across the United States. As a local union official…