Labor
FedEx blocking bill that would improve its workers’ labor rights
June 14, 2009Original source: FedEx is attempting to block a bill in Congress that will reclassify some of its workers under jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) rather than the Railway Labor Act (RLA). Most private...
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Celebrating LGBT Pride Month
June 14, 2009Earlier this month, we saw new evidence that our country has entered a real era of change when President Barack Obama issued a proclamation calling on all Americans to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)...
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Head Start workers fight for their jobs
June 14, 2009PROVIDENCE, R.I. — “We built Head Start,” said Barbara Lewis. “We are Head Start. We just lost our jobs.”
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Join the UFCW in celebrating Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
June 14, 2009Original source: In June of 2000, Bill Clinton deemed the month of June “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” The month was chosen to remember the Stonewall riots in 1969 in Manhattan. Instead of backing down to...
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Girls in gold-mining: ‘I dont want my children to be like me’
June 11, 2009MANILA (ILO Online) – Together with other children, Aiza stands in the mercury-laden water, shoveling mud or bending over a large pan in search of a tiny speck of gold. She earns 20 pesos or half...
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