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A wind farm in Pa. fuels green-collar union jobs

September 15, 2009 By Teresa Albano

EBENSBURG, Pa. -- As the G-20 Summit prepares to open in Pittsburgh Sept. 24 to deal with global capitalism's severe economic crisis, labor journalists from the International Labor Communicators Association visited some 15 area work sites...

Hundreds protest Philadelphia Army Experience Center

September 15, 2009 By Ben Sears

PHILADELPHIA -- Carrying banners and chanting “Shut it down!” and “War is not a game!” close to 300 demonstrators marched into the Franklin Mills Mall here to protest the continued operation of the Army Experience Center....

Future for the Mon Valley? ‘Hell doesn’t have to last forever!’

September 15, 2009 By John Wojcik

On Friday, I and three other labor journalists paid a visit to the mayor of a town some folks in the Monongahela Valley call “Hell.”Braddock is the poorest town in Allegheny County and John Fetterman, 39,...

President Obama details health reform principles

September 13, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

On the heels of President Obama's speech to Congress on health reform this week, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes stated that the administration has learned some important lessons about that issue coming out...

An EFCA majority sign-up “trigger”?

September 13, 2009 By John Wojcik

Some Blue Dog Democrats, fearful of a public option in a health care bill, have signaled that they might be willing to support a compromise measure that allows for creation of such an option once insurance...