Labor

                
  • Protect Social Security customer service

    Protect Social Security customer service

    May 10, 2008

    Workers’ CorrespondenceWe thought the push to privatize Social Security was dead. Failing to privatize Social Security, the administration has slashed the agency’s budget. These tactics ensure that the next time we have to fight to save...

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  • Reclaiming May Day: Marching together for all workers

    Reclaiming May Day: Marching together for all workers

    May 10, 2008

    U.S. workers are reclaiming May Day, which they initiated over 120 years ago, and are giving the day new meaning in the drive to end the war and occupation in Iraq. Reflecting the holiday’s origins when...

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  • Video/Audio: Labor Says No to Housing Cuts

    Video/Audio: Labor Says No to Housing Cuts

    May 3, 2008 By Samuel Delgado And Matt Parker

    NEW YORK - Trade unionists, housing activists, and residents of New York City public housing gathered at City Hall today to protest the Bush administration's proposed budget cuts to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

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  • Penn. labor calls for election unity

    Penn. labor calls for election unity

    April 11, 2008 By Ben Sears

    PHILADELPHIA — Unity was the watchword at last week’s Pennsylvania state AFL-CIO biennial convention, as the 721 delegates cheered calls for a united effort to put a Democrat in the White House and to defeat John...

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  • Week of action unites students, workers

    Week of action unites students, workers

    April 11, 2008

    Imagine a world where everyone who chooses to can go to college. Picture a world where workers on school campuses and in communities have a voice about their working conditions and where the fruits and vegetables...

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