Two types of taxes deserve more consideration. Applying surtaxes on businesses that cause pollution is also a righteous method of earth-control which should be expanded. The Service Employees local 1199, representing nurses at Harborview Medical Center, filed a complaint with the Department of Labor and Industries that the hospital is putting its workers at risk to drug-resistant tuberculosis. The state judged that the violations could have reasonably resulted in injury or death of the workers. The Center for Labor Studies at the UW will hold a Labor Studies conference on May 5 and 6.
Admission is free.
Call 543-6924 for info. LPA is hopeful that current low US voter turnouts and large union turnouts at LPA rallies mean conditions are ripening for a Labor Party. In addition, large labor organizations in the US, such as the AFL-CIO, have a policy of not endorsing a Labor Party. Copyright 1995 WFP Collective, Inc.