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This Week In Labor: September 29
September 28, 2007Labor takes aim at key 2008 races The AFL-CIO executive council has approved a political budget of more than $53 million to educate, mobilize and turn out voters this year and next. The resources will be spent entirely on grassroots mobilization through an ambitious, sophisticated political program. The federation says it will activate and deploy more than 200,000 volunteers in 2008. Volunteers will reach out to members and neighbors by...
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El Congreso debe detener a la Corte Suprema y proteger el derecho al aborto ahora
May 04, 2022La salud de las mujeres en los Estados Unidos ha recibido un golpe devastador por la decisión pendiente de la Corte Suprema que anuló Roe v. Wade. Cuando entre en vigor, las mujeres que necesiten abortar serán convertidas en delincuentes en la mitad de los estados de este país. Los procedimientos clandestinos ya menudo peligrosos que formaban parte de la era anterior a Roe volverán en muchos lugares. Y como...
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"Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?"
January 12, 2022Declaring that all lawmakers in America must ask themselves that question, Biden calls for the elimination of the filibuster to pass voting rights bills in the Senate.
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Two tales of one city: First the death, now the resurrection
November 16, 2007NEW ORLEANS — It wasn’t the hurricane that almost killed this city. From day one, after Katrina, the Bush administration used this town as a laboratory to experiment with every type of right-wing social engineering scheme imaginable, and if it weren’t for the labor movement and its allies, they just might have succeeded. Trafficking in human labor is one of the countless ways that big business succeeds in lowering wages,...
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June 22, 2007LGBT unionists fighting on several fronts Pride at Work, an AFL-CIO affiliate, is a group of labor union activists who seek full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers in their workplaces and their unions. The group has fully mobilized this month, Pride Month, to bring its concerns into many gay pride activities. Pride at Work continues as the lead plaintiff in National Pride at Work vs. Granholm....
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Undue influence: Wal-mart, Google, GE press China to curb workers rights
May 11, 2007There is a “tug of war” raging worldwide over reforms in China’s labor law, according to Brendan Smith, Tim Costello and Jerry Brecher, authors of a report released April 5 by Global Labor Strategies (GLS). On one side of the battle, the report says, is Wal-Mart, Google, General Electric and other transnational corporations that have been lobbying to limit rights for Chinese workers. On the other side are workers’ rights...
Read moreTo clone or not
December 07, 2001Despite pressure from President Bush to ban human cloning, either for reproduction or research, the Senate refused last week to take up a Republican measure to impose a six-month moratorium on the technology. The bill was pushed to the Senate floor after an announcement last week by Dr. Michael West, of the Advanced Cell Technology Institute of Worcester, Mass., that his biotechnology firm had created the first cloned human embryos....
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After Trump’s 3-day horror show, Senate makes deal to end government shutdown
January 22, 2018“Millions of us have no protection at all and 850 more of us lose protections every week,” read a statement issued by United We Dream.
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George H.W. Bush's record: Nothing to celebrate
December 04, 2018WASHINGTON — The old Latin phrase is “De mortuis nil nisi bonum,” translated as “speak nothing but good of the dead,” but when it comes to George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the U.S., who died last week, you really – despite the blather being aired – can’t apply that. That’s because Bush’s record – as congressman, scion of wealth, GOP national chairman, CIA director, Ambassador to China,...
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Berliners fighting to save everything from their homes to the planet
April 26, 2019People on the march are a common sight here lately. A big majority are young.
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