Labor
Struggling workers, Biden and Solis to be part of AFL-CIO gathering
February 28, 2009MIAMI — Hilda Solis, the former Latina congresswoman from East Los Angeles and now the U.S. Secretary of Labor, south Florida workers reeling from the tanking economy, and national labor leaders will kick off a four...
Read moreOne womans battle: Why a nation changed course
February 27, 2009EFFINGHAM, Ill. — Gail Warner, 39, lives in her southern Illinois “dream house,” a few miles from here. Her husband is a loan officer at a local bank. Her son, who will turn 15 in June,...
Read moreAfter 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 more