Labor
Crisis and opportunity
August 13, 2009Original source: The dog days of August have arrive, Washington has mostly cleared out and neither health care reform nor the Employee Free Choice Act have been passed. The Republicans, the Hard Right, and Corporate America...
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Plot to kill Post Office cloaked by right wing recess rally chaos
August 12, 2009Even as it works overtime to disrupt the national debate on health care reform, the radical right is taking advantage of the chaos to quietly destroy yet another public service Americans take for granted – the...
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How one union community took back a town hall on health care
August 12, 2009Original source: Here’s a firsthand account from Rosa Blumenfeld, an organizer for the North Shore (Mass.) Labor Council, on how an organized and well-briefed union presence can counter the tactics many health care reform opponents are...
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Labor shifts its health care drive into the streets
August 11, 2009Organized groups of union members, responding to right-wing attempts to de-rail the movement for health care reform, are turning out for virtually every health care rally and town hall meeting in the nation, knocking on doors,...
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‘Monongahela Dusk’ a steamy thriller about the steel industry!
August 11, 2009Sex, political corruption, intrigue, conspiracy, bombing and confrontations with the National Guard and local police — a steamy beach thriller set in Baghdad, right? Well, not really. John Hoerr, a former writer for Business Week best...
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