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AFL-CIO: Prosperity requires stronger labor laws

August 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Strengthening labor law is part of a comprehensive plan for shared prosperity the AFL-CIO Executive Council endorsed last week.

Union fights scheme to privatize NYC parking meters

August 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

If New York's 90,000 meters are sold, private owners would reap profits for years while the city would be left with an annual $150 million revenue hole for decades.

Study: “Good jobs” in America on the decline

August 2, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

The share of "good jobs" in the U.S. economy declined from 27.4 percent to 24.6 percent since 1979, a new report by two labor economists says.

AFL-CIO: Walesa didn’t speak for Polish workers at Romney meeting

July 31, 2012 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

The largest labor federation in the U.S. is warning Polish communities nationwide that Lech Walesa's meeting with Mitt Romney in Poland this week did not have the support of Polish unions or the labor movement here...

Native American joblessness is slow genocide

July 24, 2012 By Albert Bender

Small wonder that U.S. Native peoples are beset with a blistering, hideous panoply of social and health ills hardly seen elsewhere in this world. Unemployment kills!