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For many, state budgets cuts are life-or-death issue

July 31, 2009

ST. LOUIS - Melanie Shouse has a hard road to travel. Not only is she fighting breast cancer, she's also fighting the health care industry. As a small business owner, she could only afford a catastrophic...

The Pittsburgh AFL-CIO convention and labor unity

July 30, 2009

The 26th Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO, taking place in Pittsburgh in mid September, will be a doozy. Not since the historic 1995 convention has so much been on the line for the labor movement. The...

NYC transit union moves to defeat Bloomberg

July 30, 2009

NEW YORK—The rapidly fading myth that Mayor Michael Bloomberg would sail to an easy victory, due to his ability to spend tens of millions of dollars to drown out the voices of his opponents, was shattered...

Climate bill provides real cost relief for consumers

July 30, 2009

While most people understand the urgency of climate change, one of the top concerns many working families have with a cap-and-trade system is added costs for energy. During the House debate on the cap-and-trade program included...

Canoes head for Suquamish, Chief Seattle’s gravesite

July 30, 2009

NEAH BAY, Washington – Native American Indian youth are voyaging in their dugout canoes from throughout the Pacific Northwest to the town of Suquamish, gravesite of Chief Seattle, for the 20th annual Tribal Canoe Journey, Aug....