Labor
As GM slashes, where do we go from here?
June 6, 2009DETROIT — With General Motors filing for bankruptcy and announcing it will close 14 plants, throwing thousands of workers on the scrap heap, what is the way forward for autoworkers and their communities? A few quick...
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Employee Free Choice will pass without gutting main thrust
June 5, 2009Reposted from http://www.laborradio.org AFL-CIO Legislative Director Bill Samuel says labor’s number one priority – the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform – will become law. It makes it easier for workers to join unions by...
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Progressive majority is leaving conservatism isolated
June 5, 2009WASHINGTON — What two things do people who are part of the Obama administration, trade unionists, civil rights activists, environmentalists, womens’ rights leaders, youth leaders, community organizers, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, senators and representatives,...
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The rumor of card-check death is greatly exaggerated
June 5, 2009Mark Twain’s famous quote is what Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) paraphrased to thousands of progressive activists at the America’s Future Now conference this week regarding the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Doubling down on green jobs
June 4, 2009Original source: WASHINGTON -- Last August, then-candidate Barack Obama declared that, if elected, he would create five million new, green jobs. He's pushed that promise hard, with his stimulus package, appointments, and support of an ambitious...
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