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AFL-CIO’s young workers plan second summit in Twin Cities

March 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The AFL-CIO's young workers advisory council is taking charge of the labor movement by making its leadership more youthful and is planning a second summit to take place in the fall.

Top labor leader says protests hike support for unions

March 2, 2011 By John Wojcik

"People are giving the labor movement another look now," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said at a press conference here March 1.

Ashtabula workers give GOP rep an earful

March 2, 2011 By Wally Kaufman

During a town hall meeting in Ohio this week hundreds of community and labor activists rallied against a Republican-led state senate bill that would destroy collective bargaining rights for public workers.

Right now: 1,000 workers sit in and block Indiana state Senate

February 22, 2011 By John Wojcik

A thousand union members and their allies are sitting in and blocking the entrances to the state Senate chamber in Indianapolis.

Big business floods Congress with demands to de-regulate

February 11, 2011 By John Wojcik

Corporations officially unveiled loads of pet projects, wish-lists, and regulations they want axed during a hearing held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The labor movement says it's corporate arm-twisting of lawmakers on the...