Published Labor and Workplace Articles

• People's Weekly World:
  Remembering those who serve: A tribute to America's food-and-beverage workers
  Winner, National Federation of Press Women 2005 writing award
    
  Crossing the double yellow line: America’s crippling health care system claims another victim
    
• Tucson Weekly:
  Shafted! Phelps Dodge Strips Miners of Their Rights
    
• The Boilermaker Reporter:
  Kvaerner pays Local 19 members $280,000 (Page 2)
     
• Dry Heat Dispatch,
  newsletter of the National Writers Union Local 1981, Tucson
  Delegates Assembly Targets Action on the Local Level

Tales from the Trenches

TALES FROM THE TRENCHES, a regular column that appears in The Red Rock Review (Arizona), offers an inside look at the everyday lives of American workers and the issues that affect them. Recipient of a 2005 National Federation of Press Women award, it is designed to champion the working poor, restore dignity to humble professions, empower workers by educating them about their rights and promote a spirit of solidarity in all professions.
   

• Somebody's Gotta Do It: The Low Down on Cleaning Public Restrooms
  Story and photos by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Published in The Red Rock Review, January 15, 2005
    
• The Future of Work: Economic Experts Analyze the Problems and Possibilities
  Story and photos by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Published in The Red Rock Review, April 15, 2005
  Published online on The Future of Work Weblog
     
• Waste Deep: A Tribute to Trash Collectors
  Story and photos by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Published in The Red Rock Review, May 15, 2005
     
• Rescue 911: On Call with the EMS Team
  Story by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Photos by Charles Allen, Sedona Fire District
  Published in The Red Rock Review, March 15, 2005
    
• Boon or Burden - The Truth About Right-to-Work Laws
  Story by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Published in The Red Rock Review, July 15, 2005
    
• Labor Pains: Tales from the AFL-CIO Convention Floor
  How the labor movement’s new direction impacts local workers
  Story by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Published in The Red Rock Review, August 15, 2005
    
• Crossing the Double Yellow Line: A Life Hangs in the Balance
  Story by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Illustration used with permission by Mike Konopacki -
  Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons
  Published in the Red Rock Review, September 15, 2005
     
• Minimum Wage, Maximum Shame
  Arizona incomes trail the rest of the nation
  Story by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Published in The Red Rock Review, October 15, 2005
     
• Street Smarts - Pearls of wisdom from the working class
  Story by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2005
  Published in The Red Rock Review, December 15, 2005
     
• A Recurring Dream: The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  His cry for a living wage 40 years ago reverberates for today’s workers
  Story by Catherine J. Rourke, Copyright 2006
  Published in The Red Rock Review, January 15, 2006

Other Award-Winning Stories

• United We Stand: Reflections of a Native New Yorker on 9/11
  Published by Sedona Red Rock News, Sept. 11, 2002
  Winner, Arizona Press Women 2003 First Place statewide feature writing award for non-daily newspapers
  Winner, National Federation of Press Women 2003 national feature writing award, honorable mention
    
• Remembering Ground Zero
  Published by Sedona Red Rock News, Sept. 10, 2003
  Winner, Arizona Press Women 2004 Second Place statewide profile writing award for non-daily newspapers
  Winner, Arizona Press Club 2004 feature writing award for non-daily newspapers, honorable mention
     
• A Father's Undying Love
  Published in Sedona Red Rock News, June 11, 2003
  Winner, Arizona Press Women 2004 First Place statewide feature writing award for non-daily newspapers
  Winner, National Federation of Press Women 2003 Third Place national feature writing award

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