Elections
New Haven candidates’ fight for jobs is “what we need”
August 29, 2011Years of struggle for good jobs at the site of the former Winchester sporting arms factory, now Science Park at Yale, came together this week when Delphine Clyburn, candidate for Board of Aldermen in Ward 20,...
Read moreWorking class issues highlighted in Kentucky governor’s race
August 25, 2011The latest polls for the Kentucky gubernatorial election show a lead for the Democrat, with 52 percent of likely voters leaning towards him.
Read morePower struggle rages in Iran
August 23, 2011With less than two years to go before the next presidential election in Iran a power struggle to determine its outcome is in full swing.
Read moreOhio rallies for union rights, voter rights
August 23, 2011Thousands rallied in Columbus and hundreds in Cleveland Saturday to support efforts to repeal laws suppressing trade union and voting rights enacted by the extremist Republican administration of Gov. John Kasich.
Read moreLabor to campaign for Obama in 2012
August 22, 2011Organized labor will not allow a Republican to win the presidency, Michael Podherzer, the AFL-CIO's political director said.
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