Labor
Biden brings green car funding to Motor City
August 6, 2009DETROIT — With an official unemployment rate of 17%, what better place than the Motor City for Vice President Joe Biden to announce grants of over $2.4 billion to auto companies and suppliers to research and...
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Workers thrown out of Alliance For Worker Freedom Capitol Hill meeting
August 3, 2009Original source: Several SEIU workers got thrown out of a Capitol Hill meeting this week of a group called the Alliance For Worker Freedom. It was a panel discussion about the Employee Free Choice Act. But...
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Labor to lawmakers: Dont take our support for granted!
August 1, 2009A meeting of the AFL-CIO’s executive council in Silver Springs, Md., ended July 28 with declarations calling for a new New Deal modeled after the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s, a massive second economic stimulus...
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Unemployment in Detroit reaches 17%, autoworkers send Obama letter on high-speed rail and jobs
July 31, 2009DETROIT -- The shocking news this week is Detroit’s official unemployment rate is now 17%. Unless action is taken to re-open closed auto plants and prevent others from closing, the number will surely go higher.
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The Pittsburgh AFL-CIO convention and labor unity
July 30, 2009The 26th Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO, taking place in Pittsburgh in mid September, will be a doozy. Not since the historic 1995 convention has so much been on the line for the labor movement. The...
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