Labor
Job and wage loss major issues on Labor Day
September 5, 2011A 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...
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Millions make change
August 30, 2011The initiatives and actions of the American people were an essential ingredient in the progressive-democratic thrust in the 1930s and 1960s. The same is true today.
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Labor board rule changes help defeat employer delay tactics
August 30, 2011By now, there's been publicity - and lots of management propaganda - about proposals by the National Labor Relations Board to change some rules.
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Oklahoma City Laborfest a stunner!
August 29, 2011Residents of the working class neighborhood came out on their porches to watch the block-long procession. JD Thompson led the marchers in a lusty "Solidarity Forever." The third and final day of the Oklahoma Laborfest was...
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Companies continue attack on national labor board
August 29, 2011Unions, led by the Teamsters, the Laborers, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the AFL-CIO, strongly backed the National Labor Relations Board's recent proposal to change union recognition election procedures.
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