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‘WELCOME TO the police state of Miami.’ That’s Florida AFL-CIO President Cynthia Hall’s greeting to thousands of union members gathering in the…
Lee Sustar
Lee Sustar is a writer and activist in Chicago.
IS AMERICAN steel a rust-belt relic or a pillar of the U.S. economy? Should organized labor support high tariffs in an effort…
THE BIG grocery strikes in Southern California and the Midwest have put a spotlight on the rapidly worsening health care crisis in…
THE RHETORIC is about AIDS and poverty, but the agenda is oil and empire. George W. Bush’s mid-July tour of Africa highlighted…
IT’S A Medicare massacre under the guise of “reform.” George W. Bush’s proposed prescription drug benefit program for Medicare recipients would funnel…
KEY UNION leaders are finally sounding the alarm about the crisis in organized labor–and they’re calling for bold action to rebuild…
GEORGE W. Bush has an offer for the HMO bosses who ditched 2 million Medicare recipients in recent years. Come back–and…
WILL 2003 be the year that labor finally fights back? Certainly employers are pushing unions to the wall. From wage cuts…
WHEN UNION leaders and the Wall Street Journal both hail a labor agreement, rank-and-file workers have to ask: Can this deal really…
STRIPPING UNION rights from tens of thousands of federal workers. Outsourcing 850,000 government jobs. Holding a gun to the heads of…