Labor

Move beyond testing, punishing, NEA leader says

July 16, 2008 By A.S. Mahdi Ibn-Ziyad

The nation’s capital played host to over 10,000 elected delegates of the National Education Association’s 87th annual representative assembly July 1-6. Teachers, educational support and administrative personnel were joined by thousands of other allied professionals and...

Workers Uniting history in the making

July 12, 2008

The United Steelworkers union made history with its convention just held in Las Vegas. That’s history with a capital H. The kind of history that can forever change labor and our country. The kind of history...

Connecticut labor gears up for big election drive

July 11, 2008 By Joelle Fishman

HARTFORD, Conn. — Lightening storms may have kept national AFL-CIO President John Sweeney’s plane from landing here in time for the Connecticut AFL-CIO convention June 23, but nothing could stop the delegates’ determination to prepare for...

Unions say free trade pact would stoke Colombia strife

July 11, 2008

Teamsters Union president James Hoffa and Jorge Gamboa, president of the National Petroleum Workers Union of Colombia, warn that ratifying the U.S.-Colombia “free trade” agreement would continue the long civil war that results in hostage-taking there....

ICE throws working moms in jail

July 11, 2008

‘How does this keep this country safe?’ asks labor leader HOUSTON — 200 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept up and arrested 166 workers at Action Rags,U.S.A., June 25, just north of the Houston Ship Channel...