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Feb. jobless figures down but concerns rise over govt. cuts

March 15, 2011 By John Wojcik

The nation's official unemployment rate declined ever so slightly for the third straight month in February, down 0.1 percent to 8.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week.

Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims

March 15, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.

Labor switches to defense on legislative agenda

March 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Bill Samuel, the AFL-CIO legislative director, explains the new math on Capitol Hill and in state houses around the country, and its impact on labor's agenda.

Miami protests anti-immigrant bills

March 14, 2011 By Dan Margolis

Opponents say if Republicans get their way on immigration in Florida, social, civil and even economic life in Miami and around the state could be severely disrupted.

AFL-CIO’s young workers plan second summit in Twin Cities

March 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The AFL-CIO's young workers advisory council is taking charge of the labor movement by making its leadership more youthful and is planning a second summit to take place in the fall.