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Gun owners for Obama? Yes, if they had a union card
November 8, 2008Union voters were critical in President-elect Obama’s victory, providing a crucial bloc of support in swing states that helped him win big, election night polling released Nov. 5 by the AFL-CIO showed. In their announcement of...
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240,000 jobs lost last month
November 8, 2008Two hundred forty thousand more workers were tossed onto the jobless pile in October, driving the nation’s official unemployment rate to 6.5 percent – the worst in 14 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics....
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Labor law overhaul top priority for Americas unions
November 8, 2008At post-election news conferences Nov. 5 leaders of the nation’s two huge labor federations, the AFL-CIO and Change-to-Win, told reporters that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is at the top of their agenda and that...
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Obama: Fixing economy is job #1
November 8, 2008Focusing on the economic crisis in his first press conference, Nov. 7, President-elect Barack Obama emphasized the needs of working families and creating jobs as the number one priority of his new administration. Flanked by his...
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Same-sex marriage backers vow to fight on
November 7, 2008California supporters of same-sex marriage took to the streets and to the courts following the passage on Nov. 4 of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The initiative, placed on the ballot after...
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