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Refinery safety tops Steelworkers’ oil bargaining goals

November 29, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Vast improvements in oil refinery safety will be the top bargaining goal of the Steelworkers (USW) when they open talks with the nation's oil companies on a new contract, the union announced.

Verizon is tax deadbeat, report shows

November 23, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

In the last three years, as it raked in more than $100 billion in revenues and $33 billion in U.S. profits, Verizon has been a tax deadbeat.

Trumka, Weingarten blame GOP for “super committee” failure

November 23, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and AFT President Randi Weingarten, blamed the flop on GOP refusal to abandon tax cuts for the rich.

Structural crisis exposes neoliberalism as disaster

November 23, 2011 By Sam Webb

It would be wrong to simply characterize this global economic crisis as only cyclical in nature.

Hoffa wins re-election as Teamsters president

November 23, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Incumbent Teamsters President James Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term in final results announced by an independent overseer on Nov. 18.