Articles by Dick Meister
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UN Challenges Slavery Conditions for Domestic Workers
Dick Meister - Truthout,
8 Aug 2011
With a lot of luck, we may finally take decisive action to guarantee decent treatment for the world’s highly exploited housekeepers, maids, nannies, and other domestic workers. There are an estimated 100 million of them, working in more than 180 countries. Yes, winning the union rights for domestics worldwide will be very difficult. But we know it can be done. And certainly we know that it should be done.
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Dick Meister – Information Clearing House,
20 Nov 2009
It’s Nov. 19, 1915, in a courtyard of the Utah State Penitentiary in Salt Lake City. Five riflemen take careful aim at a condemned organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill, who stands before them straight and stiff and proud."Fire!" he shouts defiantly. The firing squad didn’t miss. But Joe Hill, as […]
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