Sep 21, 2002

NUEVA YORK – Mientras se marcaba el primer aniversario de los atentados del 11 de septiembre del año pasado, los neoyorquinos en toda su diversidad se hicieron presentes para recordar a los caídos, para honrar a los que corrieron a la ayuda de los víctimas de las Torres Gemelas (WTC – por su nombre oficial en inglés, World Trade Center), y para exigir soluciones pacíficas al terrorismo.

OAKLAND – The California Nurses Association (CNA) reached agreement, Sept. 12, on a new four-year contract with Kaiser Permanente, covering 10,200 registered nurses and nurse practitioners at 54 facilities in Northern California, that among other gains, banned mandatory overtime

In the United States obesity in children of all races has increased two to three times over the past 25 years. In England, the rates for the same period are over two times.

TUCSON – The tireless efforts of hundreds of grassroots volunteers dealt a blow to the corporate establishment here and their attempt to dominate Southern Arizona politics in the Sept. 10 primary election.

The governor of Puerto Rico, Sila María Calderón, called on President Bush to put his promise to end the Navy’s use of Vieques in writing by issuing an Executive Order that would stop use of the island for bombing practice by May 2003.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Steelworkers’ anger rattled the window panes and a few security guards as 500 active, laid-off and retired workers jammed the sidewalk and steps in front of the federal courthouse here, Sept. 12, for the opening of an unprecedented bankruptcy case.

PHILADELPHIA – Nearly 1,500 members of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 1069 voted to strike at the Boeing plant in nearby Ridley Township, Penn., Sept. 14. Local 1069 President John De Francisco said, “I consider the company’s last best offer an insult and I think my members do also. It was the company’s intent to get us to settle for a sub-par contract.”

TUCSON – Los esfuerzos incansables de cientos de voluntarios le dio un golpe al establecimiento corporativo de tratar de dominar el poder político en el sur de Arizona en las primarias del 10 de septiembre.

Workers Correspondence


Workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital have been organizing for the right to a union for the past four years. Now, the unionized workers at the hospital and at Yale University are tying their contract settlements to this union drive.