by Tula Connell | May 5, 2008 | Blog
Every day, most of us go to work and then come home. Next day: Rinse, repeat. But some U.S. workers go to work and never come home. In April 2005, Donald Wilcher Smith was one of them. The 22-year-old central Texas man was electrocuted at the Sanderson Farms...
by Tula Connell | Apr 15, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In August 2004, Hector Alino Martinez and three other Colombian trade unionists were dragged out of their homes and assassinated in the streets of Caño Seco. The men were among 96 unionists killed in Colombia that year. But supporters of Bush's drive to ram the...
by Tula Connell | Mar 14, 2008 | Blog
What is it about teachers that reactionaries don't like? Maybe it's because an educated electorate poses a threat to those who seek to control the public—"Danger: Educated Union Member" is one of our favorite phrases—and so teachers pose an easy target for the...
by Tula Connell | Feb 22, 2008 | Blog, Economy
The union movement is turning green. Not with envy, but with an escalating sense that the nation must work to address climate change and that we must be part of the effort to create good jobs that also are green jobs. Last December, an unprecedented delegation of...
by Tula Connell | Jan 23, 2008 | Blog
Anyone can get health care in the United States. Just ask George W. Bush. Last year in Cleveland, he had this to say to the 47 million Americans without health care coverage:I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency...
