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Anita Torrez, Southwestern labor leader and Communist activist, dies at 94 February 4, 2021 9:22 AM CDT By Joe Bernick
Anita Torrez in 2014 in front of a mural commemorating the Empire Zinc strike. | Scott Marshall / People s World
The American working class suffered a great loss on Jan. 31 with the passing of Anita Torrez. Torrez, who celebrated her 94th birthday last fall, spent almost her entire adult life in the struggles for economic justice and against racist and sexist discrimination.
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A new contract ratified Monday between Glencore and its workers offers stability going forward and avoids what could have been a difficult stint on the picket lines, according to the union.
“It was a bit of a hard sell to the members but it was enough, and a majority of the members understood there was no real reason to go on strike,” said Eric Boulay, vice-president of Mine Mill Local 598/Unifor. “We were ready, but it’s a tool you only want to use when you have to.”
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The leader of a union representing Glencore workers said he was comfortable with the tentative deal reached over the weekend on a new contract, although it…
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The man who leads Glencore’s operations says he’s pleased the company and Mine Mill have reached a tentative collective agreement.
The previous contract expired at midnight last night and negotiators bargained last week and on the weekend to reach a new deal.
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Mine Mill Local 598/Unifor represents about 770 Glencore production and maintenance employees in Sudbury.
“We are very pleased to have successfully reached this settlement agreement without work disruption,” Peter Xavier, vice president of Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations (Sudbury INO), a Glencore company, said in a release. “We believe that the new agreement is fair, competitive and represents a balance of interests in securing a deep mining future for Sudbury INO.
By 1961, Charles Koch had stacked up three engineering degrees and was back home in Wichita, Kansas, to join the family business of oil refining, pipelines, and manufacturing. His father, Fred, was at the time attempting to tackle a different sort of engineering challenge: how to get unions, Communists, and big government off his back. The Nazi sympathizer Koch patriarch fought against unions in Kansas, and when the John Birch Society convened its inaugural meeting in 1958 initially composed exclusively of National Association of Manufacturers members he enthusiastically attended as a co-founder. According to a 1961
Washington Post profile of Koch’s white supremacist conspiracy-theory club, “leadership of the Birch Society overlaps heavily with the leadership of the organizations that successfully campaigned in 1958 for a right to work amendment to the State’s Constitution.” Fred died in 1967, but Charles eagerly put his education to work carrying on his family’s 60-year