Labor
Labor support for Obama grows as unions eye 2008 elections
January 12, 2008Barack Obama won the backing on Jan. 9 of the 60,000 strong Culinary Workers Union in Nevada, boosting his campaign for the presidency. Nevada voters will caucus on Jan. 19 to select their delegates to the...
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Air Controllers declare safety emergency, take campaign to Capitol Hill
January 12, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--Saying the safety situation in the nation’s skies, especially over Chicago, New York, Atlanta and Southern California, is dire, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association has declared a “controller emergency” in those four areas. And...
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Labor returns to Memphis for Martin Luther King Day events
January 12, 2008MEMPHIS, Tenn. (PAI)--The labor movement will return to Memphis, Tenn., site of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination as he was supporting striking African-American sanitation workers, for its 40th anniversary commemoration of the great civil rights leader’s...
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Emergency Rail Board proposes settlement between unions and Amtrak
January 12, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--A three-person Presidential Emergency Board, named by GOPer George W. Bush, has proposed a settlement of the eight year dispute between Amtrak and the nine unions representing its 6,000 non-operations workers, leaders of the union...
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California Nurses Association Launches Drive for ‘Cheney Care’
January 12, 2008OAKLAND, California (PAI)-- First, 15 years ago, there was “Hillary Care.” Now there’s “Cheney Care.” But there’s a big difference between the two - and a big difference in the health care they provide. “Hillary Care”...
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