Jobs
“America Wants to Work” kicks off this week
August 31, 2011The AFL-CIO and its allies will spend weeks organizing an "America Wants to Work" campaign to focus on what they see as the nation's real crisis: jobs.
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A tip for Joe the machinist: Watch your back
August 31, 2011A Labor Day reflection: Corporate America no longer even pays lip service to the importance of encouraging hard work and skill.
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Hoping for an audacious jobs proposal Mr. President
August 31, 2011As we approach Labor Day, 2011, the three biggest concerns on the minds of the American people are jobs, jobs and jobs.
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The Keystone Pipeline: can labor and environmentalists work together?
August 31, 2011Building Trades unions are backing - and transit unions opposing - the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, from the tar sands of the Canadian province of Alberta to the oil refineries of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Unemployed no longer welcome to apply for jobs?
August 30, 2011Big business has set up a new roadblock for the jobless: employers only consider hiring those who are already working, reported the AFL-CIO. In other words, the unemployed need not apply.
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