Labor
In budget battle, Calif. governor threatens state workers pay
July 26, 2008State workers are reacting with outrage to reports July 23 that Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign an executive order on July 28, temporarily cutting pay for over 200,000 state employees to the federal minimum...
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AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
July 24, 2008AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka delivers a powerful speech at the Steelworkers convention in early July about racism and the 2008 elections.
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Wage theft, Bush-style
July 23, 2008In an unlikely team-up, impartial investigators from the Government Accountability Office joined a low-income workers’ advocate at congressional hearings July 15 to tell lawmakers that President Bush’s Labor Department has failed to enforce minimum wage and...
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Campus workers end week-long strike
July 23, 2008OAKLAND, Calif. — Thousands of service workers returned to their jobs on University of California campuses July 21, after a week-long strike to protest the university’s stonewalling of their demands for fair compensation in contract negotiations...
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Longshore talks continue after contract expired
July 23, 2008West Coast longshore workers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are continuing talks with the employers’ Pacific Maritime Association for a new agreement, following the July 1 expiration of their contract. “We’re making progress and...
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