Labor
Hartmarx workers prepared to sit-in if Wells Fargo closes their factory
May 9, 2009Des Plaines, Ill. — Six-hundred union workers at the Hart Schaffner & Marx’s manufacturing plant here, which is one of the last and largest U.S. suit makers, are demanding it’s time that they, and not the...
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Labor moves quickly into showdown on health care
May 9, 2009The labor movement, determined to be heard as Congress and President Obama hammer out changes in the U.S. healthcare system, is insisting that any new plan include the four features of cost controls, a public option...
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Ronald Reagan reaches out from his grave, ties up National Labor Relations Board
May 9, 2009The “Gipper” apparently knew what he was doing when he stacked the federal courts with young right-wing lawyers back in the 1980s. The now old right-wing judges are still on their benches and are busy, these...
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In Pa., even Republicans want Specter to support Employee Free Choice Act
May 9, 2009The latest Quinnipiac Poll in Pennsylvania helps explain what may be Sen. Arlen Specter’s second switch on the Employee Free Choice Act. According to the poll, twice as many Republicans want Specter to support the worker...
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539,000 jobs lost in AprilDont let them tell you this is good news
May 9, 2009Original source: Have you heard the one about the recession being over? New data out today show 539,000 workers lost their jobs in April and the nation’s unemployment rate worsened to 8.9 percent, from 8.5 percent...
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