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05.07.2009 6:27 pm

What’s the incentive to work?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stephen Derickson, in his letter in the May 5th edition of the Post Dispatch, said he was “incredulous that any pay differences based on anything other than length of service” still exist.  How about things like productivity, hard work, creative thinking,…

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03.30.2009 5:00 pm

Fight over card-check shows who has real power

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Regarding the Editorial last Friday “Secret ballots, card check and politics”:

While it remains to be seen if Senator Arlen Specters’ recently announced opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will doom this legislation (3/27 – Secret ballots, card check…

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03.16.2009 4:19 pm

Bill would save jobs, restaurants

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Post’s February 25th editorial, “Lousy Service,” stated that lawmakers “reared their ugly heads” regarding tipped employees. However, even the Post admits that tipped workers are, and always have been, treated differently under minimum wage laws. The reason: tipped workers…

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01.20.2009 4:57 pm

Message to the president: Made in the USA

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I have a message for the new President. I’ve been preaching it since I became a Teamster in 1970. Here it is.
MADE IN USA MEANS JOBS IN USA

Timothy C Donahue
St. Louis

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01.15.2009 5:52 pm

About that UAW unemployment letter …

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In a letter Jan 13 Marcie DeFiese claims the UAW laid-off workers are bankrupting the State Of Missouri. She needs to read her own letter. The UAW workers do not collect any more state unemployment benefits than any other laid-off…

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01.14.2009 5:31 pm

Workers deserve the chance of a better life

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I read Sen. Loudon’s article on Save our Secret Ballot. All that I see is that this is just another attack on labor unions and the American Workers right to organize and belong to a labor union. First it was…

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12.17.2008 12:39 pm

Workers need the tools to reform the system

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Middle class workers are fighting a steep uphill battle. Today’s system is horribly broken, skewed heavily in favor of big businesses and their super-rich CEOs. As it stands, corporations can effectively veto their employees’ efforts to organize and bargain collectively…

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12.10.2008 9:51 am

Tort reform must be a part of automaker bailout

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The unions appear to be willing to make some meaningful concessions to the Big Three. The chastened executives appear to be willing to make concessions on their obscene compensation. These will help America’s automobile industry survive.

But what concessions is Congress…

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12.09.2008 12:26 pm

George Bush has almost ruined organized labor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Congratulations to, soon to be MR. Bush. In eight short and painful years he has managed to bring organized labor to the brink of extinction with Republican-sanctioned governmental policies favoring only the wealthiest few. With the last, best manufacturing jobs…

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