Labor

Ohio labor: ‘Obama will be a great president’

September 18, 2008

CLEVELAND — Fired up by three days of powerful and rousing speeches, 1,000 delegates and guests at the Ohio AFL-CIO 26th biennial convention here fanned out to the far corners of the state to campaign for...

Obama helps recover workers pensions

September 13, 2008

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio — When steelworkers George Korcedes and Paul Santilli attended the event for Barark Obama here, they hoped that Obama would touch on the struggle for pensions that steelworkers and others are having. They...

Who are they trying to kid?

September 13, 2008

John McCain, while publicly distancing himself from President Bush, has presented an economic program that is a continuation of Bush’s policies. So an assessment of the administration’s record is in order. In his Aug. 30 radio...

Labor says enough to GOP sideshows

September 13, 2008

‘It’s not guns, gays and Palin — it’s the survival of U.S. workers’‘ A united labor movement this week fired several shots aimed at drawing attention to real election issues that the Republicans want to bury...

Workers continue Boeing shutdown, job security key issue

September 11, 2008

Boeing workers are prepared for a long strike to prevent their jobs from being outsourced as their shutdown of the nation’s largest airplane maker enters its fourth day. Mark Blondin, the chief negotiator for the International...