Labor
Protect Social Security customer service
May 10, 2008Workers’ CorrespondenceWe thought the push to privatize Social Security was dead. Failing to privatize Social Security, the administration has slashed the agency’s budget. These tactics ensure that the next time we have to fight to save...
Read moreReclaiming May Day: Marching together for all workers
May 10, 2008U.S. workers are reclaiming May Day, which they initiated over 120 years ago, and are giving the day new meaning in the drive to end the war and occupation in Iraq. Reflecting the holiday’s origins when...
Read moreThis week in labor
April 19, 2008Unions abroad boost workers here The Communications Workers of America and Germany’s biggest union have established a jointly run trans-Atlantic group, called T Union, to organize and represent T-Mobile workers. Although T-Mobile is aggressively anti-union, its...
Read morePenn. labor calls for election unity
April 11, 2008PHILADELPHIA — Unity was the watchword at last week’s Pennsylvania state AFL-CIO biennial convention, as the 721 delegates cheered calls for a united effort to put a Democrat in the White House and to defeat John...
Read moreWeek of action unites students, workers
April 11, 2008Imagine a world where everyone who chooses to can go to college. Picture a world where workers on school campuses and in communities have a voice about their working conditions and where the fruits and vegetables...
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