Labor

Women soccer players score union recognition

September 10, 2010 By Pepe Lozano

U.S. professional women soccer players scored a goal this week after the Women's Professional Soccer Players Union won recognition through a majority sign-up, certified by an arbitrator with the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league.

Do you make too much money?

September 8, 2010 By John Dick

Do you, the reader, think you make too much money?Because there are many who think public sector workers do!

In California elections, ‘jobs’ is the watchword

September 8, 2010 By Marilyn Bechtel

OAKLAND, Calif. - With unemployment officially pegged at 12.3 percent in California, it's clear topic number one for Democratic candidates at all levels will be jobs.

Ohioans kick off mid-term election fight

September 8, 2010 By Rick Nagin

Warning of the extreme danger to the rights working people and to democracy if Republicans win, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka, Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and candidates for office stumped Labor Day events.

Obama proposes $50 billion infrastructure bill

September 7, 2010 By John Wojcik

In his Labor Day speech to union members in Milwaukee the president, aiming for a serious reduction in the 9.6 percent unemployment rate, proposed a new $50 billion jobs plan.