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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, September 01, 2003 ::
Adding insult to labor's injuries By Molly Ivins
This poignant Labor Day, when the numbers are bad, the policies are worse and the jobs are disappearing, it's not so much the economy that riles me as the disrespect and the gratuitous contempt with which this administration treats working Americans. The old insult to injury.
AFL-CIO chief says democracy weakening By Dave Turner
John J. Sweeney, president of the labor organization, said the system for joining or forming unions was broken.
The American system for joining or forming labor unions is broken, and that's weakening the nation's democracy, AFL-CIO president John J. Sweeney said in a Labor Day weekend address in Philadelphia last night.
His speech, titled 'Can We Be a Democracy if Democracy Ends at the Workplace Door?' was delivered to a group of about 120 people at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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