Today in 1993 United Farm Workers of America founder Cesar Chavez dies in San Luis, Arizona, at age 66. Labor Tribune
• Wage hikes: Better than tax cuts. • ALEC's local strategy for attacking unions. • Welcome to what the Supreme Court wrought. • Trade groups launch campaign to attack NLRB. • Hoffa: Presidential veto of pipeline hurts middle-class. • Fewer labor unions mean more income inequality. • New England workers win largest Telecom strike in history. • How one economist exposed a dirty corporate secret. • How 262 cable technicians defeated a union-busting giant.
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