Labor
Autoworkers find little comfort in industry show
January 14, 2010Ford's Fusion Hybrid was named "car of the year" by Motor Trend. But the award will bring little comfort to unemployed autoworkers.
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Rite Aid workers fight for first contract
January 13, 2010When it comes to union busting, the retail drug giant Rite Aid is the "poster child" for why we need the Employee Free Choice Act, says Peter Olney, organizing director for the International Longshore and Warehouse...
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Challenging anti-government ideas
January 13, 2010We need to show that the American people through their struggles have established the basic institutions of democratic society including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Postal Service, the VA, public schools and libraries, and much more....
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Tens of thousands call Washington to demand no tax on workers’ benefits
January 13, 2010As phones ring off the hook in the nation's capital with calls from workers angry about a Senate health reform bill that would tax their benefits there are signals coming from both the White House and...
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Confronting corporate ideology in the fight for jobs
January 13, 2010The struggle for jobs must challenge ideas of "market supremacy" - downgrading everything public - and "supply side" trickle-down economics. (Part 2 of 3-part series)
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