Labor
After eight years of Bush, can OSHA be fixed?
February 27, 2009Original source: The Bush administration left a lot of wreckage in its wake. The crumbling economy, the home foreclosure crisis and a broken health care system are getting most of the recent headlines and calls for...
Read morePlymouth foundry workers trying to survive four months of being locked out
February 26, 2009DULUTH - When Nick Hill decided to come to Duluth to talk to the Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body about his union being locked out for four months at Progress Casting Group’s foundry in Plymouth, he...
Read moreLeading economists: Employee Free Choice key to rebuilding economy
February 26, 2009In a statement delivered today to Capitol Hill and published as a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post, more than three dozen of the nation’s top economists call on Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice...
Read moreSix Chicago schools spared closing, fight continues
February 25, 2009CHICAGO – Local grassroots efforts by parents, teachers, students and community supporters here has paid off, for now, after Chicago Public Schools Chief Ron Huberman announced that six schools will be spared from a list of...
Read moreThe extraordinary life of Marvel Cooke
February 25, 2009Women’s History Month fittingly opens with International Women’s Day, March 8. On March 8, 1908, 15,000 women workers marched through New York’s Lower East Side demanding shorter hours, better pay, a needle trades union, and the...
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