Labor
CD REVIEW Twenty-first century labor music
August 6, 2009“Dump the Bosses Off Your Back” By Anne Feeney 2008“New Hard Times” By Bill Collins and The Rabble Rousers 2008 Labor music inevitably reflects broader social trends. The ongoing interplay with church hymns and military marching...
Read moreBiden brings green car funding to Motor City
August 6, 2009DETROIT — With an official unemployment rate of 17%, what better place than the Motor City for Vice President Joe Biden to announce grants of over $2.4 billion to auto companies and suppliers to research and...
Read moreWorkers thrown out of Alliance For Worker Freedom Capitol Hill meeting
August 3, 2009Original source: Several SEIU workers got thrown out of a Capitol Hill meeting this week of a group called the Alliance For Worker Freedom. It was a panel discussion about the Employee Free Choice Act. But...
Read moreLabor to lawmakers: Dont take our support for granted!
August 1, 2009A meeting of the AFL-CIO’s executive council in Silver Springs, Md., ended July 28 with declarations calling for a new New Deal modeled after the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s, a massive second economic stimulus...
Read moreUnemployment in Detroit reaches 17%, autoworkers send Obama letter on high-speed rail and jobs
July 31, 2009DETROIT -- The shocking news this week is Detroit’s official unemployment rate is now 17%. Unless action is taken to re-open closed auto plants and prevent others from closing, the number will surely go higher.
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