Labor
Labor-led coalition demands recovery plan for Main Street
October 10, 2008Leaders of many of the nation’s most powerful unions have joined with heads of dozens of progressive community and political organizations to map out an economic recovery plan for Main Street. In a message titled “A...
Read moreMachinists show grit as strike enters month two
October 3, 2008The strike launched Sept. 4 by the Machinists against Boeing, the nation’s largest airplane maker, shows perhaps as well as anything else the rising tide of anger among American workers and their determination to fight. The...
Read moreUnion leader Rugola: This is our fight for democracy
October 3, 2008White, African-American unionists unite for Obama COLUMBUS, Ohio — At organized labor’s Get Out The Vote mobilization here last week, Ohio AFL-CIO President Joe Rugola announced that he will walk across the state, stopping at shut-down...
Read moreJoblessness soars, income drops, manufacturing shrinks, govt reports
October 3, 2008First time applications for unemployment benefits skyrocketed to a seven year high in September as more workers lost their jobs in an economy that John McCain described, only two weeks ago, as “basically sound.” Initial jobless...
Read moreWhen your union contract expires Who do you want in the White House?
September 26, 2008NEW HAVEN, Conn. — As 4,000 workers at Yale University gear up for a contract fight next year, and 2,000 workers at Yale New Haven Hospital continue their organizing drive, the question of who will be...
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