Labor
Dont disgrace Chicago, Congress Hotel workers tell tourism board
March 12, 2009CHICAGO -- To its great shame, the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau still promotes the Congress Hotel despite a six-year strike that has garnered national attention and solidarity. Several dozen strikers and their supporters picketed the...
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UPDATE Citigroup, AIG, on taxpayer dole, lead charge vs. worker rights
March 12, 2009WASHINGTON — Organized labor hit the ground running March 10, bringing hundreds of workers to the capital to visit their senators and representatives to urge passage of the Employee Free Choice Act on the day it...
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Workers tell lawmakers of unionizations benefits as Employee Free Choice Act is introduced
March 11, 2009WASHINGTON (PAI) - Workers, economists and scholars told the Senate Labor Committee on March 10 that increasing unionization, by making forming unions easier, would help all workers -- union and non-union -- in a time of...
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Employee Free Choice Act introduced in Congress
March 11, 2009The U.S. House and Senate are both introducing the Employee Free Choice Act as we write, launching the legislative battle to restore workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.
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A home is foreclosed every 13 seconds
March 11, 2009Original source: The economic crisis started with home foreclosures, and the numbers are getting worse. According to the Center for Responsible Lending (CLR), a non-partisan research and policy group, some 6,600 homes are foreclosed every day:...
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