Labor
In Texas, $18 billion in hole, yet governor lives luxury life
June 14, 2010DALLAS -- While the Republicans hold their convention here, the Texas AFL-CIO held a press conference to highlight that these "fiscal conservatives" have dropped the state into an $18 billion deficit hole.
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Your mailman searches for the ghosts of Tom and Joe
June 14, 2010Today a young couple with two kids told me a sad story: they are giving their house, a house they had built just eight years ago, back to the bank.
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Young union activists quiz top leaders, plan networks
June 14, 2010WASHINGTON (PAI)--In a scene that one postal worker from Chicago said was unlike any other union conclave he ever attended.
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Arkansas lesson: organize the South
June 14, 2010There was justice in organized labor's efforts to unseat Blanche Lincoln - but the real issue is the unfulfilled historic legacy of its plans to organize the South.
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Hyatt workers protest in San Francisco
June 11, 2010Some 400 workers at the Hyatt Regency hotel here held a three-day strike June 8-10.
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