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Musicians getting same harsh treatment as steelworkers

June 26, 2012 By Susan Webb

Violinists of the world, unite? Orchestra musicians across the U.S. are getting the same harsh treatment by management as steelworkers, city and state workers and others.

Trying to haul highway-mass transit bill out of ditch

June 22, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

With the House and the Senate trying to hash out their differences on the highway-mass transit bill, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Tim Walz gave them a shove. The House backed his shove on June 20.

Oakland City Council OK’s plans for Army base

June 21, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

The agreement with developers includes precedent-setting community benefits provisions to hire local workers and involve the community in ensuring compliance.

Planned new $1B U.S.-Canada bridge to create thousands of jobs

June 21, 2012 By Marty Mulcahy And Mark Gruenberg

A new billion-dollar bridge between Detroit and Windsor., the busiest border crossing from Canada to the U.S., will create 10,000 new jobs on the U.S. side, and it'll be built with U.S. and Canadian steel.

At G-20, union leaders make the case for jobs not austerity

June 20, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg

Union leaders, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, delivered the strong message that "austerity does not work," and only makes things worse for workers, to the G-20 leaders of the industrialized world, meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico.