Labor
Biden tells labor leaders Employee Free Choice Act is a must
March 6, 2009MIAMI — Vice President Biden told the nation’s labor leaders here that passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is “the only way to restore what was the basic bargain in this country – in exchange...
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Pro-union workers fired in over one-fourth of union election campaigns
March 6, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than one-fourth of all union-representation elections in the 2000s have been marred by an illegal firing of a pro-union worker, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy...
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Remember the working class roots of International Women’s Day
March 6, 2009Reposted from www.straight.com As March 8 quickly approaches, it is a good time for working women to take a moment to remember the historical roots of International Women’s Day and take stock of our current conditions...
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One-third of Americans went without health care in past 2 years
March 6, 2009Original source: Nearly 87 million people—more than one-third all Americans under age 65—were without health insurance for at least part of the past two years. Most of the uninsured came from working families. This compelling new...
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Union members — making change from bottom up
March 5, 2009MIAMI — “Change made from the bottom up” is being proven in life here by members of the 12-million-strong AFL-CIO labor federation. Even as an economic tsunami threatens to engulf America’s workers, the union movement is...
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