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	Unions Look Here for More Strike Stories and Images Union Stories 2009 WHY WORKERS NEED THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT WHY LABOR LAW DOESN'T WORK FOR WORKERS UNIONS NEED UNITY, BUT MORE A RADICAL VISION FOR TODAY'S LABOR MOVEMENT 2008 WHY THE UNION WON AT SMITHFIELD CHICAGO WORKERS TO REST OF COUNTRY -- "DON'T LET IT DIE!" RISING DEBATE SHAKES SEIU -- AMERICA'S LARGEST UNION RESPONSES TO SEIU DEBATE ARTICLE 2006 GETTING IT RIGHT - HOTEL WORKERS BEAT THE LOCKOUT 2005 UNIONS AT WAR LABOR NEEDS A RADICAL VISION YOUR BOSS WILL HATE THIS BOOK - THE TROUBLEMAKER'S HANDBOOK LABOR NEEDS A HARD LEFT TURN U.S. LABOR DEBATES DIRECTION SERVICE EMPLOYEES PROPOSE A PROGRAM FOR CHANGE THE MIDWEST UNION ROLLBACK 2004 THE UN-GROCERY STRIKE – UNIONS THINK STRATEGICALLY THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE IN SAN FRANCISCO’S HOTEL LOCKOUT HOW THE LOCKOUT BACKFIRED LABOR NEEDS “THAT VISION THING” SIGN THE CARD, AND LOSE YOUR JOB – TSA’S NEW RULE FOR UNIONS pre-2004 The Barbed Wire Straitjacket (12/4/02) The Kill Floor Rebellion (6/6/02) West Coast Docks Fall Silent as Workers are Locked Out (10/2/02) Charleston - The Front Line for Labor Rights (7/15/01) Leftwing Leadership in the AFL-CIO: Interview with Bill Fletcher (12/31/99) Feds Charge Marriott With Massive Violations of Workers' Rights (4/26/99) Four Years of Class War End in a Union Contract (4/2/99) Unions and the Fight for Multi-Racial Democracy (2/6/99) Union Officials Act to Remove Popular Latino Labor Leader from Office (1/31/99) Union Wins Election at UCSF Stanford Healthcare (11/23/98) The State of Our Unions (11/22/98) The Aftermath of Liverpool -- Where Was British Labor?: An Interview with Liverpool Dock Striker Mike Carden (11/15/98) Stanford/UCSF Merger Gives Birth to Unionbusting (10/30/98) Has Marriott's Neutrality Agreement Covered Union-Busting? (9/19/98) Pt. Richmond Workers Find Organizing a Union is Like a War (3/27/98) Book Review: "Workers in a Lean World" (2/24/98) Sacramento Janitors 11-Day March for Justice (2/21/98) Where Workers Have to Fight for a Paycheck (2/16/98) Who Will Pay the Price of a New United Europe? (1/15/98) Longshore Workers Chase Scab British Cargo Out to Sea (10/2/97) Partnership in a War Zone (7/17/97) West Coast Janitors Get Ready to Fight (2/28/97) Los Angeles Janitors Leave Local 399 (2/12/97) Book Review: "Audacious Democracy" (1997) The New Face of Unionbusting (12/22/96) Price Pfister Workers Go Hungry to Save Jobs (11/30/96) The War in the Teamsters (8/24/96) The U.S. Finally Has a Labor Party (6/11/96) Labor Support For Clinton Hits a Rock: Oil Union Leader Criticizes the Administration's Indifference to Workers (3/5/96) Immigrant Big-Rig Drivers Threaten to Shut Down the LA Harbor (2/20/96) Putting Wages on the Ballot in November (1/27/96) Will the AFL-CIO's New Leaders Change Its Old Cold War Policies? (10/29/95) The AFL-CIO In Moscow: The Cold War That Never Ends (6/23/95) The Newspaper Wars Reach San Jose (11/28/94) Organizing Silicon Valley - Unions Begin the Biggest Job of All (1/19/94) Organizing Silicon Valley's High Tech Workers The Rising From Below: The Coming Labor Earthquake in Los Angeles (11/29/95)	Photographs Janitors Strike East Bay Immigrant Workers Fight for their Rights Security Guards Strike Security Guards Organize Airport Workers Food Distribution Pacific Steel Protest Janitors Protest at Ikea Healthcare Workers Anti-Trusteeship Rally Smithfield Workers 1 Smithfield Workers 2 2006 Contract Campaign Kickoff Hotel Workers Fight for Their Union HERE Local 2 Hotel Workers Fight for Their Union Part 1 HERE Local 2 Hotel Workers Fight for Their Union Part 2 HERE Local 2 Hotel Workers Fight for Their Union Part 3 Union Gallery

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