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• Freedom for our People
  Sat, Mar 29, 2003 :: by Members for Democracy
  A great wall separates us, in our current reality where the powerful pee - figuratively - on us, from the emerging new era with its limitless possibilities. It's not a physical wall, but rather a wall built of our own fears - fears about changing the current reality, fears about looking at conventio...
  
  
• Unions' Duty to Act Intelligently and Honorably
  Sat, Mar 15, 2003 :: by Members for Democracy
  This past week we visited the Duty of Fidelity. 'Fidelity' is not a term in wide use in contemporary language. In the context of the workplace, the duty of fidelity means an obligation of workers to be loyal servants of their employers. If it sounds a bit medieval, that's because it is....
  
  
• Bullshit used to Baffle our Brains
  Sat, Mar 8, 2003 :: by Members for Democracy
  One of the problems with becoming more knowledgeable about things that affect our rights at work is that we also become more aware of the extent to which we have been played for fools. Not a day goes by it seems when we are not left shaking our heads at some crock of shit or other that's been presen...
  
  
• Vice Chair Strangelove: How he learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
  Sat, Mar 1, 2003 :: by Members for Democracy
  This perverse logic would not be tolerated for a moment from an adjudicator in any other branch of our legal system. Our rights are our rights. Once they are granted to us, it is wrong for anyone - least of all members of the judiciary or of quasi-judiciary agencies - to interfere with our exercise ...
  
  
• Solidarity Whenever: Down and Dirty in the Backroom
  Sat, Feb 22, 2003 :: by Members for Democracy
  Important decisions affecting the lives of thousands of workers are made in secret by small groups of men who have disturbingly similar views about the roles of workers in our society. In hotel rooms, restaurants, on golf courses and inside corporate offices around North America, backroom dealing be...