Labor

Another Unionist In Minnesota Legislature Gives Dems Super-Majority vs. GOP Gov.

January 12, 2008 By Barb Kucera

NORTHFIELD, Minn. (PAI)--Add another unionist to the large ranks of them in the Minnesota legislature. And the election of Democrat Kevin Dahle to a state senate seat from Northfield is special: It shifted the balance of...

California labor seeks worker-friendly Congress

January 11, 2008

As early presidential primary results highlight voters’ demands for change, a drive is taking shape to further weaken Republican power in Congress. Among leaders of that movement is the AFL-CIO, which plans to put even more...

Labor news around the nation

January 9, 2008

LOS ANGELES (PAI)--Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has sided with the joint Teamsters-environmentalist “clean trucks” campaign at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach, Ricardo Hidalgo reports in the Southern California Teamster. The union is...

A movement to change America begins in Iowa

January 8, 2008

DES MOINES, Iowa – An unprecedented outpouring of independents, youth and women propelled Illinois Sen. Barack Obama to a historic victory in Iowa’s Democratic caucuses Jan. 3 opening the 2008 presidential campaign with a shot surely...

Oregon workers take one on the chin

January 6, 2008

Oregon workers lost one recently when Senate Republicans blocked the extension of federal payments to the timber-dependent counties, including millions of dollars in funding which could have gone to pay for infrastructure and peoples’ needs. In...