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Fired hotel housekeepers reject Hyatt ‘job offer’

Hyatt offered to "rehire" fired Boston hotel workers: but take a look at the strings attached!

New AFL-CIO leaders set fighting tone

The AFL-CIO's new leadership launches a national tour pressing for a public health option and passing the EFCA.

Labor tells G-20 to save planet and its workers

PITTSBURGH — 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.

Labor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20

Two 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.

Hotel workers stage sit-in at Hyatt

In 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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Labor talks green jobs and manufacturing at G-20

PITTSBURGH — 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...

Labor demands global justice

PITTSBURGH - 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.

On EFCA, Specter changes views...constantly

PITTSBURGH -- 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.

Two of top three posts go to women in AFL-CIO election

PITTSBURGH -- In a session packed with emotion, delegates to the 26th AFL-CIO Convention yesterday elected a historic leadership team. Two women, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker join the new president, Richard Trumka, as the federation's top three leaders.