Labor
Janitors kick off contract campaign
February 22, 2008OAKLAND, Calif. — Janitors represented by Service Employees International Union held coordinated actions around California late last week as they kicked off their campaign to win new union master contracts covering workers in southern and northern...
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This Week in Labor: Truckers, airlines, firefighters and union women
February 21, 2008Freight workers say yes to union A majority of 150 workers at the UPS Freight (formerly Overnite Transportation) terminals in Cleveland and Toledo, in Ohio and in Bowling Green, Kentucky have signed authorization cards to become...
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Texas labor maps plans for 2008 elections
February 21, 2008The Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) met in Austin January 19-20, endorsed candidates and made plans for a big election year. The delegates backed Rick Noriega, a long time Democratic state representative in his...
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Writers win some after 14-week strike
February 15, 2008Against enormous odds and with television and film writers united behind them, leaders of the Writers Guild of America have negotiated a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that amounts to a...
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Battling the right to work scam
February 12, 2008This past Labor Day, trade unionists were outraged to wake up and read an editorial in The Detroit News arguing for a “right-to-work” law in Michigan. Right-to-work bills failed to garner majority support in the Michigan...
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