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AFL-CIO forsees victory on public option, EFCA
September 15, 2009PITTSBURGH – Leaders of the U.S. labor movement, during interviews an hour before the 26th Convention of the AFL-CIO began its first full day of business here, expressed certainty that, before the year is out, the...
Read moreA wind farm in Pa. fuels green-collar union jobs
September 15, 2009EBENSBURG, Pa. -- As the G-20 Summit prepares to open in Pittsburgh Sept. 24 to deal with global capitalism's severe economic crisis, labor journalists from the International Labor Communicators Association visited some 15 area work sites...
Read moreHundreds protest Philadelphia Army Experience Center
September 15, 2009PHILADELPHIA -- Carrying banners and chanting “Shut it down!” and “War is not a game!” close to 300 demonstrators marched into the Franklin Mills Mall here to protest the continued operation of the Army Experience Center....
Read moreFuture for the Mon Valley? ‘Hell doesn’t have to last forever!’
September 15, 2009On Friday, I and three other labor journalists paid a visit to the mayor of a town some folks in the Monongahela Valley call “Hell.”Braddock is the poorest town in Allegheny County and John Fetterman, 39,...
Read morePresident Obama details health reform principles
September 13, 2009On the heels of President Obama's speech to Congress on health reform this week, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes stated that the administration has learned some important lessons about that issue coming out...
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