Labor
Trumka: Big Banks’ payment on mortgage settlement good first step
February 13, 2012A $26.5 billion settlement between the states' attorneys general and big banks over the financial finagling with mortgage-backed securities is a good first step, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says.
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Labor and business economists call “right to work” unworkable
February 7, 2012A pro-labor economist is saying that Republicans who think "right to work" laws will stimulate the economy in their states are dead wrong.
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Civil rights and labor leaders develop strategy to repeal anti-immigrant law
February 7, 2012Alabama's anti-immigrant law, HB 56, has threatened people of color regardless of their legal status, and continues to damage the state's economy and reputation.
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U.S. steelworkers campaign to free Colombian political prisoners
February 3, 2012"We are working in close conjunction with Justice for Colombia in Great Britain on the political prisoners campaign," says USW Senior Counsel Dan Kovalik.
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Arizona next battleground in workers’ rights war
February 2, 2012Neither the state AFL-CIO's efforts nor the special election recall loss in November of a key radical right ally stopped GOP Gov. Jan Brewer
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