Knight Ridder Silences Miami Herald Reporter after Politician Commits Suicide...
(Former) Miami Herald reporter Jim Defede wrote many stories that were offensive to powerful Miami interests,right wing Cuban-American extremists, and even the Herald's parent company, Knight Ridder....
View ArticleKnight Ridder Fires Miami Herald Muckraker
A classic tale of corporate media suppressing journalists who don't toe the line? It began with a suicide in lobby of the Miami Herald building. Former city commissioner, Art Teele, shot himself after...
View ArticleCORPORATE ATTACK ON PRESS FREEDOM IN MIAMI
A classic tale of corporate media suppressing journalists who don't toe the line? It began with a suicide in the lobby of the Miami Herald building. Former city commissioner, Art Teele, shot himself...
View ArticleUnion-Busting Kills Miners
International Coal Group (ICG) now owns and operates Sago mine (under the name of a subsidiary.) The mine was formerly owned by Horizon Mining, which went bankrupt to avoid paying its contractual...
View ArticleUnion Busting Kills Miners (Part II)
International Coal Group continues its openly anti-union tactics at the expense of miner safety and in violation of statute. ICG has illegally opposed the request of at least two miners at the West...
View ArticleVive la France! (y Mexico tambien) Workers of the World Unite!
While a brainwashed America sits idly by as the ruling corporate oligopoly suffocate their unions, millions of French are in the streets protesting a proposal to introduce limited "employment at will"...
View ArticleExtensive Research: Union Busting & the Employee Free Choice Act
What follows is a summary/synthesis of empirical studies that reveal rampant employer violations of labor law intended to allow employees to make a free and uncoerced choice about whether to join or...
View ArticleEmployee Free Choice Act Passes In House Labor and Education Committee
Last night, the Employee Free Choice Act passed in the House Committee on Education and Labor and will be sent to the House floor in the coming months. Congratulations and thank you to Rep. George...
View ArticleJoe Biden has no respect!!!
During tonight's debate, a woman who not long ago lost her husband in one of the worst mining disasters in recent American history was given the opportunity by her union brothers and sisters to ask a...
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