Labor
Leading economists: Employee Free Choice key to rebuilding economy
February 26, 2009In a statement delivered today to Capitol Hill and published as a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post, more than three dozen of the nation’s top economists call on Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice...
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Six Chicago schools spared closing, fight continues
February 25, 2009CHICAGO – Local grassroots efforts by parents, teachers, students and community supporters here has paid off, for now, after Chicago Public Schools Chief Ron Huberman announced that six schools will be spared from a list of...
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The extraordinary life of Marvel Cooke
February 25, 2009Women’s History Month fittingly opens with International Women’s Day, March 8. On March 8, 1908, 15,000 women workers marched through New York’s Lower East Side demanding shorter hours, better pay, a needle trades union, and the...
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Workers Correspondence: Making it all the way for employee free choice
February 25, 2009LOS ANGELES -- I started the march a little late that day. Me and two friends of mine, Hector and Juoaquin, began our March to catch up from our local office on Virgil where we parked...
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Workers ready for green collar jobs
February 25, 2009(Reposted from Workday Minnesota) ST. PAUL - With both the state and federal governments putting new emphasis on “green” economic development, Ray Zeran is one of many workers ready to fill the ranks of a new...
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