Labor
Iran rights group urges world pressure to free labor, women detainees
May 12, 2009Human rights and trade union organizations across the globe are combining to call for the release from prison of participants in the May Day rally in Iran’s capital, Tehran, this month. The May Day rally, which...
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Safeway, workers agree to continue labor talks
May 11, 2009DENVER (AP) — With the threat of a strike looming, Safeway agreed to resume negotiations with its union workers a day after they authorized a strike, a company spokeswoman said Sunday. The labor contract between Safeway...
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Netroots Nation Salon: The fight for Employee Free Choice, online and off
May 10, 2009Online organizers and progressive activists from inside and outside the union movement met today at the AFL-CIO for a frank conversation about the state of the Employee Free Choice Act and how online activism can help...
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May Day celebrated in Philly, again
May 9, 2009Philadephians, for the second year in a row, celebrated International Labor Day at Elmwood Park in the city’s southwest section. The site has historical significance in part because of its history in the heart of what...
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Hartmarx workers prepared to sit-in if Wells Fargo closes their factory
May 9, 2009Des Plaines, Ill. — Six-hundred union workers at the Hart Schaffner & Marx’s manufacturing plant here, which is one of the last and largest U.S. suit makers, are demanding it’s time that they, and not the...
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