Labor
Workers Correspondence: Making it all the way for employee free choice
February 25, 2009LOS ANGELES -- I started the march a little late that day. Me and two friends of mine, Hector and Juoaquin, began our March to catch up from our local office on Virgil where we parked...
Read moreWorkers ready for green collar jobs
February 25, 2009(Reposted from Workday Minnesota) ST. PAUL - With both the state and federal governments putting new emphasis on “green” economic development, Ray Zeran is one of many workers ready to fill the ranks of a new...
Read moreMedia Matters turns its lens on medias portrayal of labor, economy
February 25, 2009The non-profit Media Matters for America has earned a nationwide reputation for tracking media integrity on a variety of issues, earning the wrath of Rush Limbaugh and others along the way. Now it will apply its...
Read moreOPINION: Solis and employee free choice both key to fixing the economy
February 24, 2009Union members have been on the phone and all over the internet pushing for Senate confirmation of Hilda Solis, President Obama’s choice for Secretary of Labor and for the Employee Free Choice Act. The two battles...
Read moreRepublic Windows workers come to Connecticut
February 24, 2009NEW HAVEN, CT -- UE Local 1110 president Armando Robles and other officers recently toured the country to make public their sit-in at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago which won a severance package. The Connecticut...
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