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Labor Day protestors demand jobs and fair trade deals

September 7, 2011 By John Bachtell

Steelworkers and 1,000 others protested against a new free trade agreement being negotiated for the Pacific Rim countries.

Workers blast threat to shut down U.S. Postal Service

September 6, 2011 By John Wojcik

Postal Service employees say threats by the U.S. Postal Service to shut down this winter because of a $9.2 billion deficit are part of a "manufactured crisis" designed to privatize the world's largest mail delivery system.

President Obama: Unions key to economic recovery

September 6, 2011 By John Rummel

The president of the United States, the nation's labor leaders and one of America's cultural icons teamed up here on Labor Day to boost the labor movement, which they said is crucial to any economic revovery.

Secretary of Labor Solis signs migrant workers rights agreements with Latin American countries

September 5, 2011 By Emile Schepers

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis signed agreements with three more Latin American countries (for a total of six) on the protection of certain rights of migrant workers. The right wing is, predictably, yelling "betrayal".

Job and wage loss major issues on Labor Day

September 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A report on U.S. occupations - sorting 366 defined jobs data into high-income, middle-income and low-income posts - reveals data to back what workers know by instinct: The jobs that disappeared in the Great Recession were...