Labor
Sen. Sherrod Brown at labor meet: New energy economy is unprecedented opportunity
May 22, 2009CLEVELAND — An array of labor leaders, public officials and policy experts gathered here recently to detail the promise and perils for Ohio in the transition to a clean energy, green jobs economy. More than a...
Read moreUnion contract at Yale based on history of struggle
May 22, 2009NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Four thousand six hundred union workers at Yale University here won a major victory last month. At a joint press conference with Local 35 service and maintenance workers and Local 34 clerical...
Read moreDanny Glover joins tour supporting union manufacturing workers
May 22, 2009HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — Actor Danny Glover joined labor, political and civil-rights leaders on one of the first stops of a four-day, 11-state tour supporting U.S. manufacturing workers.
Read moreFlorida workers confront union-busters
May 22, 2009Jacksonville, Fla. — 200 workers gathered May 17 at the IBEW local 177 union Hall to pick up signs supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, form ranks, and march to the Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel. The...
Read moreWorkers face increasing abuse in attempts to form unions
May 22, 2009On Capitol Hill, labor law experts and a California worker exposed the ugly truth about corporate abuses of workers trying to exercise their freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.
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