Labor
Workers picket Karl Rove’s $1,000-a-plate Big Biz dinner
July 17, 2009ST. LOUIS -- 'The Employee Free Choice Act is exactly what it says. A free choice for workers,' Ben Harmon, financial secretary for the greater St. Louis United Auto Workers union CAP Council, told the World....
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Worker rights are civil rights 1,500 march in Arkansas for Employee Free Choice
July 17, 2009LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — With Central High School as a backdrop, the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act took center stage here in this southern state. About 1,500 people rallied and marched July 11 in...
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Communications workers and AT&T strike Midwest deal
July 17, 2009Nearly 20,000 AT&T workers in the Midwest will be voting on a tentative contract that their union, the Communications Workers of America, spent the last half year negotiating. The tentative agreement, reached yesterday, will be submitted...
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Steelworker head hails House health reform bill
July 17, 2009PITTSBURGH -- Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW), issued the following statement July 15 in response to the U.S. House of Representatives’ health care reform bill: “Members of the United Steelworkers (USW) and...
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Ironworkers build more than just buildings, they build communities
July 16, 2009Ohio Ironworkers offer career training The following is reprinted from the Ohio AFL-CIO newsletter with permission. “Yea, Grampa, we know. You built that building.” In many households across Ohio and the country, that statement has been...
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