[lbo-talk] Good news about unions

[Michael Pollak]

It's so rare to see such things in a mainstream American paper these days:

First a heart-warming immigrant couple makes good story:

   Linkname: The Waitress: Crossing the Border Into the Middle Class

        URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/national/03waitress.html

And then, right beside it, a story of the union that made it possible:

   Linkname: Local 226, 'the Culinary,' Makes Las Vegas the Land of the

             Living Wage

        URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/national/03labor.html

Michael