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Companies renew efforts to bar workers from going union
January 07, 2010Fearing that labor and progressive groups will soon shift much of their focus from health care reform to a bill that would expand union organizing rights, retailers across the country are stepping up their anti-union campaigns.
Read moreDid you know Hillary was a pinko?
January 06, 2010The mainstream media, via The Washington Post, has apparently seen fit to join the rabid right's revival of the old anti-Communist crusade.
Read moreGOP anti-union stance weakens national security
January 06, 2010A bunch of right-wing Republicans led by Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina are trying to blame the labor movement for airport security weaknesses.
Read moreBanks making huge profits from toxic assets
January 05, 2010What the government really did for the financial giants in March as a way to help them unload their toxic mortgage securities was put up a sign that read, "Free money, come and get it."
Read moreEven the Washington Post agrees: It was a ‘Decade of Disaster!’
January 04, 2010It took the Washington Post until almost a year after he left office to do it, but on its front page Jan. 2 the paper, which normally emphasizes happy economic news, printed a report that described the Bush years as the worst decade for the U.S. economy in modern times.
Read more2009: The year labor started turning its hopes into reality
December 29, 2009Only a year ago, despite a super recession that had tightened its grip on their country, American workers were full of hope that a new day had dawned.
Read moreU.S. union members delivered jobs message in Copenhagen
December 22, 2009Forty union members from the U.S. went to the climate change talks in Copenhagen to give world leaders the working class view on saving the planet.
Read moreLabor Dept. to force firms to disclose union-busting tactics
December 21, 2009Among at least 20 new rules President Obama's Labor Department plans to introduce in the new year is one that would require companies to file financial disclosures on their union-busting activity.
Read moreLabor on Senate health bill: Substantial changes must be made
December 18, 2009For the health care bill that is emerging in the Senate "to be worthy of the support of working men and women, substantial changes must be made," declared Richard Trumka.
Read moreLabor weighs its next move in the health care battle
December 17, 2009A clear position on the latest Senate compromises did not emerge from closed-door meetings of the nation's labor leaders last night, but labor remains determined.
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