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Senate health bill protested at labor convention
September 13, 2009PITTSBURGH- Delegates, alternates and others at the 26th AFL-CIO convention who are from states with Senators who serve on the Senate’s Finance Committee began calling those lawmakers Tuesday afternoon from the convention floor telling them that the bill they have drafted is unacceptable and that it must be fixed.
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Obama:‘Workers will lead the nation out of crisis’
September 13, 2009The president of the United States stated clearly to 20,000 at the AFL-CIO’s Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati whose side he is on.
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Needed: 122,000 jobs per month
September 13, 2009As union delegates from around the country prepare to head to the AFL-CIO’s 2009 convention in Pittsburgh Sept. 13, they bring a determination to fight for an economy that works for the great majority of Americans.
Read moreWorkers face big challenges, economists warn
September 10, 2009As union delegates from around the country prepare to head to the AFL-CIO’s 2009 convention in Pittsburgh Sept. 13, they bring a determination to fight for an economy that works for the great majority of Americans.
Read moreTwo Labor Day wishes
September 05, 2009If two big things could happen this fall we’d have a shot at re-creating the middle class society workers enjoyed in the past.
Read moreObama to address AFL-CIO convention
September 04, 2009President Obama will speak at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh on Sept. 15, the White House announced yesterday. The speech will once again dramatize the new relationship between the labor movement and the Oval Office, following as it does, private meetings, bill signings and other ceremonies to which the president has invited many of the nation's top labor leaders.
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McCain wins White House!
September 03, 2009A year ago on Labor Day, the nightmare scenario described in the headline above was still a real possibility. Labor and its allies went on to make sure that something quite different unfolded, but what if it had actually happened the way the headline says it did?
Read moreTrumka draws line in the sand on health care
September 02, 2009AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, Richard Trumka, has drawn a line in the sand on health care reform, saying that Congress must include a strong public plan option in the final bill in order for labor to back it.
Read moreWhat’s behind the widening of our waistlines?
September 01, 2009Love handles and bulging waistlines are a big problem in America that can only be solved, a growing number of politicians are telling us, with some hefty “fat taxes.”
Read moreHospitals still unprepared for swine flu
September 01, 2009A survey of 190 American hospitals compiled by nurses in eight different states shows that hospitals across the nation are not ready for the coming H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic. The findings were released this week by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.
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