Labor
The 60th Senator puts workers first
July 11, 2009On his first day in office, July 7, Minnesota’s new Democratic senator, Al Franken, showed whose side he is on. He signed on to his first bill, the Employee Free Choice Act and, in so doing,...
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Quad City workers fight for owed benefits
July 9, 2009Workers in Moline, Ill., filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) July 7 against their employer Quad City Die Casting because the company says Wells Fargo is not approving expenditures to pay for the...
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Faulty signal system may be source of DC Metro crash
July 8, 2009The National Transportation Safety Board has not yet finished its investigation of the crash on the DC Metro which killed 9 people on June 22. But the outlines of a possible explanation are emerging. The crash...
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Haitian and Dominican workers build solidarity
July 7, 2009Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic — A delegation of Haitian unionists met in Santo Domingo July 1-2 with unionists from the informal sector of the working people of the Dominican Republic. The encounter was held at the...
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Labor-backed think tank: Second big stimulus needed to ease worst crash since 1929
July 7, 2009A top economist at the labor-backed Economic Policy Institute said today that this month’s jobless figures and other economic indicators show the “urgent need” for “a second stimulus package as large as or even bigger than”...
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