Labor

                
  • This Week in Labor: Truckers, airlines, firefighters and union women

    This Week in Labor: Truckers, airlines, firefighters and union women

    February 21, 2008

    Freight workers say yes to union A majority of 150 workers at the UPS Freight (formerly Overnite Transportation) terminals in Cleveland and Toledo, in Ohio and in Bowling Green, Kentucky have signed authorization cards to become...

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  • Texas labor maps plans for 2008 elections

    Texas labor maps plans for 2008 elections

    February 21, 2008

    The Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) met in Austin January 19-20, endorsed candidates and made plans for a big election year. The delegates backed Rick Noriega, a long time Democratic state representative in his...

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  • Writers win some after 14-week strike

    Writers win some after 14-week strike

    February 15, 2008

    Against enormous odds and with television and film writers united behind them, leaders of the Writers Guild of America have negotiated a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that amounts to a...

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  • Battling the right to work scam

    Battling the right to work scam

    February 12, 2008

    This past Labor Day, trade unionists were outraged to wake up and read an editorial in The Detroit News arguing for a “right-to-work” law in Michigan. Right-to-work bills failed to garner majority support in the Michigan...

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  • California nurses say good riddance to Governators health plan

    California nurses say good riddance to Governators health plan

    February 12, 2008

    SACRAMENTO (PAI)--By a 7-1 vote on Jan. 28, the California state senate Health Committee killed a corporate-based statewide universal health care plan pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), a vote the California Nurses Association cheered. Committee...

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