Labor
Labor Dept.sends message to bosses: shape up
February 3, 2010President Obama plans to beef up workplace regulations.
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CVS risking consumer, workers’ health for profits, laborers claim
February 3, 2010Members of Laborers Local 78 are connecting poor treatment of consumers to poor working conditions for contractors, and are urging consumers to pressure CVS.
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Historic union contract signed at Foxwoods
February 2, 2010"We have voted and we now have a contract!" exclaimed a game-table dealer and member of UAW Local 2121 at Foxwoods Resort Casino.
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Machinists fight for their pensions
February 2, 2010"If predatory bankers can come in here and steal the pensions these workers earned, then nobody in our nation is safe!" said Jim McClellan, president of International Association of Machinists District 54.
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After Supreme Court ruling, unions fear opening of corporate cash floodgates
February 2, 2010Leaders of the nation's largest unions came out in unanimous opposition to the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to spend as much as they like to influence the outcome of elections in the United...
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