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Sugar company to blame for deaths, federal agency says
October 01, 2009Agency blames suguar company and the Bush administration for worker deaths.
Read moreFired hotel housekeepers reject Hyatt ‘job offer’
September 30, 2009Hyatt offered to "rehire" fired Boston hotel workers: but take a look at the strings attached!
Read moreNew AFL-CIO leaders set fighting tone
September 29, 2009The AFL-CIO's new leadership launches a national tour pressing for a public health option and passing the EFCA.
Read moreLabor tells G-20 to save planet and its workers
September 27, 2009PITTSBURGH — It was clear at a rally here last night that the labor and environmental movements are more united now than ever before as they put forward demands on leaders of the G-20 nations that they believe are needed to rescue both workers and the planet.
Read moreLabor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20
September 27, 2009Two weeks before the G-20 summit opens in Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic crisis, labor journalists from across the country will be in the Steel City to document what’s really going on with workers without the hype.
Read moreHotel workers stage sit-in at Hyatt
September 26, 2009In one of the largest civil disobedience actions in recent history, some 200 Chicago and Indiana hospitality workers and supporters sent a message to hotel giants: We Are Not Afraid!
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September 24, 2009Read moreLabor talks green jobs and manufacturing at G-20
September 24, 2009PITTSBURGH — The labor movement put its G-20 week events in high gear today with a demand that world leaders respond to the global job crisis with a second worldwide stimulus aimed at job creation, including investment in good green jobs.“Rampant global capital caused this worldwide economic disaster,” Leo Gerard, president of the Steelworkers union, declared today. “This is proof that protecting and providing only for the rich and powerful...
Read moreLabor demands global justice
September 20, 2009PITTSBURGH - As the AFL-CIO wrapped up its 26th Convention here and world leaders got ready for the G-20 summit next week, U.S. and international trade unionists are demanding a new global economy that is fair to workers.
Read moreOn EFCA, Specter changes views...constantly
September 19, 2009PITTSBURGH -- Before the first full day session of the 26th AFL-CIO convention opened here last Monday the federation's officers met privately with a group of reporters who asked them about reports that Sen. Arlen Specter, D, Pa., was now in favor of passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. Specter, when he was still a Republican last year, was one of the bill's sponsors in the Senate.
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