Labor
Working families challenge candidates: What will you do to change things?
August 10, 2007CHICAGO — They came to Soldier Field, not to cheer for the hometown Bears, but to challenge presidential candidates to represent the rainbow of working people on Main Street, not Wall Street. At the unprecedented gathering...
Read moreWide support for garbage workers
July 27, 2007OAKLAND, Calif. — As Waste Management, Inc.’s lockout of garbage workers in Alameda County communities entered its fourth week, union pickets at the company’s headquarters here were more determined than ever. In a conversation sometimes overwhelmed...
Read moreThank you, Senator McConnell
July 27, 2007During the House and Senate debates on the Employee Free Choice Act, some of my friends got riled up by all the right-wing nuts attacking the EFCA because the Communists support it. I got a lot...
Read moreAuto CEOs drool over Delphis takeaways
July 27, 2007DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union battled to get a new contract with Delphi and is now beginning tough negotiations with the Big Three automakers, Ford, GM and Chrysler. The Delphi contract includes the closure...
Read moreTexans greet long overdue minimum wage hike
July 27, 2007HOUSTON — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) held a special press conference July 22 at the Christian Rescue Mission Church in the heart of the 3rd Ward, near this city’s downtown, to celebrate the first increase...
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