Labor
Small business owners: Employee free choice good for our workers and us
March 25, 2009Corporate leaders are making a lot of unfounded claims that the Employee Free Choice Act would be bad for small businesses. But when you ask many small business owners and entrepreneurs across the country, you’ll hear...
Read moreCOMMENTARY: Whats so sacred about a contract?
March 25, 2009Two of the nation’s “big three” auto companies, General Motors and Chrysler, both on the verge of bankruptcy, are asking the government for loans to keep them afloat. Unlike the insurance giant AIG and the big...
Read moreTrade unions to G20: Half measures will not fix broken global economy
March 24, 2009Brussels, 23 March 2009 (ITUC OnLine): In a worldwide push for action by G20 governments to pull the global economy out of recession and chart a new course for job creation, financial regulation and global governance,...
Read moreReport from the front: Workers arrested as factory assets auctioned off
March 22, 2009Reposted from rifuture.org A dozen workers from the Colibri jewelry plant in East Providence, Rhode Island were arrested today as their plant’s assets were auctioned off by a State appointed receiver. As bidders drove into the...
Read moreUnionists protest big bonuses to bad execs
March 21, 2009WASHINGTON (PAI) — Chanting and waving signs saying that it’s time to “take back our economy” for workers, unionists in Washington and dozens of other cities nationwide spent March 19 protesting big bonuses to lousy executives.
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