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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 ::
‘Good Jobs’ Is High on Labor’s Agenda, But What Can Unions Do to Create Them? LaborTalk By Harry Kelber
Let’s spend money on better schools, hospitals, affordable housing, parks and playgrounds. Let’s clean up the urban slums that breed crime and poverty. Let’s pour more money into the fight against cancer and other terrible diseases. There’s plenty of work to be done to make America a better place to live in for all of us.
Is this an impossible vision? Not so. It was realized in the darkest days of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The several million workers employed by the government on public works projects literally changed the face of the nation.
In less than two years, they built or improved 225,000 miles of roads, 36,000 schools, nearly 4,000 playgrounds and athletic fields, about 1,000 airports, and hundreds of hospitals, post offices, bridges, dams, courthouses and other needed facilities. And workers on these projects received the prevailing rate of wages.------------------------------------------- posted 2:25 AM :: reference link ::
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