Labor
Good Jobs, Clean Air! Rally backs clean, safe ports plan
July 29, 2008OAKLAND, Calif. — If a broad coalition of labor and community activists, health advocates and environmentalists has its way, pollution from ports around the country will be cut drastically in coming years, while at the same...
Read moreAliquippa For Obama fired up, ready to go: Organizing in a hard-hit steel town
July 26, 2008You knew something special was happening when the youngest, freshest face in the room got up, took charge and called the meeting to order — “Hello, I’m Scout Sanders, and welcome to the first meeting of...
Read moreIn budget battle, Calif. governor threatens state workers pay
July 26, 2008State workers are reacting with outrage to reports July 23 that Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign an executive order on July 28, temporarily cutting pay for over 200,000 state employees to the federal minimum...
Read moreAFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
July 24, 2008AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka delivers a powerful speech at the Steelworkers convention in early July about racism and the 2008 elections.
Read moreWage theft, Bush-style
July 23, 2008In an unlikely team-up, impartial investigators from the Government Accountability Office joined a low-income workers’ advocate at congressional hearings July 15 to tell lawmakers that President Bush’s Labor Department has failed to enforce minimum wage and...
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