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Unemployment in Detroit reaches 17%, autoworkers send Obama letter on high-speed rail and jobs

July 31, 2009 By John Rummel

DETROIT -- The shocking news this week is Detroit’s official unemployment rate is now 17%. Unless action is taken to re-open closed auto plants and prevent others from closing, the number will surely go higher.

Chicago postpones action on new Wal-Mart stores

July 31, 2009 By John Bachtell

CHICAGO – For the moment, the Wal-Mart monster has been held at bay. Standing up to immense pressure by the retail giant to open new stores in Chicago, the City Council postponed a decision allowing construction...

For many, state budgets cuts are life-or-death issue

July 31, 2009

ST. LOUIS - Melanie Shouse has a hard road to travel. Not only is she fighting breast cancer, she's also fighting the health care industry. As a small business owner, she could only afford a catastrophic...

The Pittsburgh AFL-CIO convention and labor unity

July 30, 2009

The 26th Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO, taking place in Pittsburgh in mid September, will be a doozy. Not since the historic 1995 convention has so much been on the line for the labor movement. The...

NYC transit union moves to defeat Bloomberg

July 30, 2009

NEW YORK—The rapidly fading myth that Mayor Michael Bloomberg would sail to an easy victory, due to his ability to spend tens of millions of dollars to drown out the voices of his opponents, was shattered...