Labor
Republican candidates “pledge” open warfare on working families
September 28, 2010Republican Party Senate candidates pledged this past week to protect tax loopholes for companies that outsource jobs, according to new media reports.
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Meet Eliseo Medina, SEIU’s first Latino sec.-treas.
September 27, 2010The People's World interviewed Eliseo Medina, widely known as a highly successful organizer and immigrant rights advocate recently elected as the first Latino international secretary-treasurer with SEIU.
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Town hall meet pledges to back BevMo! workers
September 27, 2010What if full-time job you had counted on for years, to support your family and provide health care was morphing into a part-time job with no benefits?
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Lions and tigers and “economic treason:” Oh my!
September 27, 2010Some of my steelworkers retiree friends are a little nervous because Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, talked about "economic treason" in a speech this month in Ohio.
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Filipino American labor marks 45th anniversary of grape strike
September 22, 2010The Delano, Calif., grape strike brought together Filipino American agricultural workers and Mexican American farm workers to form what became the United Farm Workers of America (UFW).
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